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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 288
Clare Cosi, the manager of The Village Blend, finds a murder mystery percolating in her very own store when the assistant manager is found dead in the back and the police believe it to be an open-and-shut case of robbery, but certain clues lead Clare to believe otherwise. Original.
When her bride-to-be cousin's wedding party begins to disappear, resulting in murder, floral designer, bridesmaid, and occasional sleuth Abby Knight...
After accepting a job supplying chocolate from her aunt's luxury chocolate business to a party for unpopular defense attorney Clemintine Ripley, Lee...
When her tax-evading parents flee town, leaving her with a fortune in unpaid property taxes, former socialite Nora Blackbird takes a job as the...
Small-town chocolatiers Lee McKinney and her aunt Nettie are once again caught in the middle of a homicide investigation when a local antiques dealer,...
Regular visitors to this space know that I don't spend much time on the subgenre called 'cozies'--soft-edged mysteries usually set in small towns,...
Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series. Clare Cosi's daughter, Joy, is interning-and falling- for a top New York...
On the run from her past, Helen Hawthorne becomes a salesclerk at an elite clothing boutique in Fort Lauderdale - a seemingly mundane job that...
When Skye Denison left Scumble River years ago, she swore she'd never return. But after a bout with her boyfriend and credit card rejection, she's...
Hollywood comes to Michigan when a film producer decides to turn a local author's romance novel into a blockbuster. Although the movie mogul's...
Personally, I found Claire to be a very annoying, self-centered heroine. If the character described her own heart shaped face or generous breasts one more time, I was ready to scream! The coffee information storing, roasting, the horrors of decaf are interesting enough, but should be at the end of the story, not taking up 1-2 pages in the midst of the mystery and distracting from the story, such as it was. I read 2 or 3 others in the series before giving up.