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Just Add Coffee Mysteries #1
Hammered
COFFEE AND MURDER don’t mix.
Just ask Samantha Powell, the girl voted Most Likely to Unleash Some Snark. The twenty-eight-year-old has achieved her life’s ambition and opened a coffee shop called JUST ADD COFFEE. The grand opening was beyond glorious and Sam had her sights set on more of the same. But a pesky corpse found splayed on the floor when she opens the next morning threatens to turn her dream into a nightmare.
Smoking hot Detective Noah Jennings is assigned to lead the investigation and Sam is counting on the himbo to find out why Doris broke into her shop and got conked over the head for her trouble. But Sam’s hopes for a speedy solution are quickly dashed when the clueless wonder targets her as prime suspect.
As coffee sales plunge, she becomes desperate … desperate enough to enlist the aid of her bff Lyddie Wexler in tracking down the killer. The only stumbling block? Lyddie thinks Sam is guilty too, but she relents under the barrage of pressure … sort of.
In between the bickering over petty differences, it’s full-on caffeinated-speed ahead as the chicly dressed twosome unearth the town’s most lethal secrets. Secrets like a loan-sharking operation nobody will admit exists and a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of millions. But it’s in the midst of the ruination that Sam realizes an even more unnerving possibility. Doris might not have been intended victim—maybe the killer mistook her for Sam!
Just ask Samantha Powell, the girl voted Most Likely to Unleash Some Snark. The twenty-eight-year-old has achieved her life’s ambition and opened a coffee shop called JUST ADD COFFEE. The grand opening was beyond glorious and Sam had her sights set on more of the same. But a pesky corpse found splayed on the floor when she opens the next morning threatens to turn her dream into a nightmare.
Smoking hot Detective Noah Jennings is assigned to lead the investigation and Sam is counting on the himbo to find out why Doris broke into her shop and got conked over the head for her trouble. But Sam’s hopes for a speedy solution are quickly dashed when the clueless wonder targets her as prime suspect.
As coffee sales plunge, she becomes desperate … desperate enough to enlist the aid of her bff Lyddie Wexler in tracking down the killer. The only stumbling block? Lyddie thinks Sam is guilty too, but she relents under the barrage of pressure … sort of.
In between the bickering over petty differences, it’s full-on caffeinated-speed ahead as the chicly dressed twosome unearth the town’s most lethal secrets. Secrets like a loan-sharking operation nobody will admit exists and a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of millions. But it’s in the midst of the ruination that Sam realizes an even more unnerving possibility. Doris might not have been intended victim—maybe the killer mistook her for Sam!
- GenresMystery
242 pages, ebook
Published December 1, 2019
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January 22, 2020
Friends or not friends that is the question
A madcap romp that deals with a murder in our heroine's new coffee shop. Slightly wacky, slightly series but with a wonderful maine coon, Taz, who will protect his owner against all comers. The heroine is clever, intelligent but ditsy and her relationship with her BFF is as wacky as any you'll come across. The other characters are vivid and bright but just need a tweak to really come to life.
When she finds the body of the past owner at her new coffee shop she is stunned. Not only about the death but because the two assigned detective's (one in particular) have her in their sights as a killer. Her investigation with her 'no friend' BFF leads them on a convoluted trail of money laundering, a shooting, a drugs dealer, old affairs, a ponzi scheme and money still missing from a heist. But is the money really from the heist? Why is she getting threatening phone calls? Why does the dark haired detective know her every move? Will she survive the showdown or will Taz take care of business?
A madcap romp that deals with a murder in our heroine's new coffee shop. Slightly wacky, slightly series but with a wonderful maine coon, Taz, who will protect his owner against all comers. The heroine is clever, intelligent but ditsy and her relationship with her BFF is as wacky as any you'll come across. The other characters are vivid and bright but just need a tweak to really come to life.
When she finds the body of the past owner at her new coffee shop she is stunned. Not only about the death but because the two assigned detective's (one in particular) have her in their sights as a killer. Her investigation with her 'no friend' BFF leads them on a convoluted trail of money laundering, a shooting, a drugs dealer, old affairs, a ponzi scheme and money still missing from a heist. But is the money really from the heist? Why is she getting threatening phone calls? Why does the dark haired detective know her every move? Will she survive the showdown or will Taz take care of business?
January 9, 2020
An entertaining and well written cozy mystery, a good start for a new series.
It made laugh and I loved the well thought cast of characters and the solid mystery that kept me guessing.
Strongly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
It made laugh and I loved the well thought cast of characters and the solid mystery that kept me guessing.
Strongly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
December 19, 2019
I enjoyed this cozy coffee shop series. I found the story to be well told, and the characters are easy to like.
I'm looking forward to reading more in this series.
I'm looking forward to reading more in this series.
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July 17, 2020Gave up at 28 percent
I just couldn't force myself to keep going on this one. The venom between the MC and her alleged best friend was just disgusting. I don't see any semblance of friendship in this and it's too painful to keep reading.
I just couldn't force myself to keep going on this one. The venom between the MC and her alleged best friend was just disgusting. I don't see any semblance of friendship in this and it's too painful to keep reading.
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