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Maggie
Miller comes to live in Table Rock, Arizona to be near her
family following a divorce. Here she will set up a beignet
café, something she has always wanted to do since trying
one on her honeymoon. But the day before the café opens
Maggie has a nasty shock when she opens a box in her storeroom
and there is a dead body in it. Not any dead body either,
but her landlord with whom she was last seen having a heated
discussion about faulty air conditioning. The police think
she has done it, so it is up to Maggie to find out the real
culprit as soon as possible.
This is book one in a fun new cozy series set in unconventional
Table Rock, where people believe in aliens and a less mainstream
life style. Expect some crazy relations, a cat, plenty of
suspects, a hot detective, recipes and all the trappings of
a good cozy mystery. Told in her own words, Maggie makes for
a lively protagonist as she races around looking for clues
and the culprit, while dodging attempts on her life and well-meaning
relations and trying to open her café. If you enjoy
this type of detective story this is a good one, being pacy,
amusing without being too crazy and never losing sight of
what a good mystery is all about, i.e. detecting. I would
definitely read another, so I hope this is the first of many.
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