The Mad Egg Diner Complete Series 6 Book Box Set

by Constance Barker

Welcome to the Mad Egg Diner, Where Your Eggs are Cooked Over Easy and Your Murder is Hard Boiled

Melody Bristol loves running her family diner in Cascade, Colorado, and enjoys her sassy staff and all the eccentrics who pop in for hand-cured maple bacon and the best coffee in town. But when one of them, a salty shopkeeper named Promise Murray, is clocked over the head with an iron cauldron and the murder weapon shows up in Melody’s kitchen, her mountain idyll suddenly seems less than cozy.

Join Melody and friends as she works to solve mysteries while trying to decide if the handsome Sheriff is worth all the trouble he brings her.

This box set includes 6 books and the entire series. Books included

Toast and Treachery

Pastries and Peril

Wickedness and Waffles

Homicidal Ham and Eggs

Criminals and Croissants

Fried Eggs and Foul Play

890 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 29, 2022

About the author

Constance Barker lives in the Midwest with her husband and two Akitas where she can look out from her screened porch onto a wooded area brimming with activity. Since she was a young girl she read mysteries, often given to her by her grandmother. She loved figuring out who the culprit was and sometimes she was right and other times startled at who the author picked as the assailant. Now she enjoys writing mysteries herself. When she isn't writing stories, she can be found in her favorite vacation spot, Las Vegas or shopping for bargains.

Reviews

[Kristy · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the writing style is engaging, the MC and her tendency to react rather than think really drew me out of the story. Adding the far fetched police procedures (blaiming the cafe owner based on a single piece of evidence rather that the cook who had been in the Café after midnight) seems too thin. The mmc/cop - who supposedly thinks she's being framed - leaves the fmc with a belligerent ex husband who just shows up angry and refuses to leave after she orders him to go. The Ex towards whom the huge friendly dog is reacting out of the norm protective of the fmc and aggressively towards AND after the FMC has asked said cop to stay no less than 3 times? No. Just no. Most cops would have asked if she wanted her ex there then escorted her ex off, not left her in what was clearly a possibly dangerous situation when she'd asked them to stay. It broke my suspension of disbelief too much. I may go back and try another in the series, but from this book, the heroine just struck me as tstl with idiot cops and fair weather townsfolk who were quick to turn on someone they'd known for her whole life.