Review: Cupcakes & Chaos (Frosted Misfortunes Mysteries #1) by Lisa Siefert

Her new employer has met her maker, and she’s the only suspect. Can she sift out the truth and serve the villain their just desserts?

Ava Decker longs to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning her own bakery. Ready for a fresh start, the former forensic accountant turned pastry chef is excited to turn life’s lemons into sugary success. But her hopes crumble when her mean boss turns up dead in the back of the delivery truck Ava was driving.

Arrested as the prime suspect, things get worse when the police discover the victim left Ava the shop and her house in her will. And with only an adorable kitten who thinks he’s a dog and an exasperated best friend as the voice of reason, the newly bequeathed owner must turn super-sleuth to clear her name.

Can Ava solve the crime before she’s baking behind bars?

My Review:

An unpredictable cozy mystery.

This book had me hooked from the very start.  It was a fun and unpredictable story.  The killer remained a mystery me until the end of the book and ended up being someone I didn’t even consider. There were lots of twists and turns in this book.  I can’t wait to find out what happens in the next book.

 

Review: The Magical Tea Shop (Charmed Love Book 1) by Aimee O’Brian

In the small town of Hazard, finding your soulmate might require magical intervention.

Ivy Wayland has a bet with her sister, who says you can’t have it all—success in business or love, but not both. Since opening her tea shop, Ivy knows where her priorities should be, but she has her heart set on her landlord. All her life, she’s heard the family lore about how their antique cookie press infuses homemade cookies with so much love that the recipient will fall head over heels for the giver. Ivy decides to take the chance.

Jaxon Langford is ready to move on. The only thing stopping him from selling up is concern about how some of his small business owners would fare with a greedier landlord. When one of his enthusiastic tenants brings him a tin of delicious-looking cookies, he’s charmed. He takes the cookies to his baseball team’s practice, only to watch them be devoured without getting so much as a bite.

Suddenly, Ivy has her pick of the town’s eligible bachelors—except Jaxon. How can she prove her sister wrong and win Jaxon’s heart?

 

My Review:

A magical love story.

What started out as a friendly bet with her sister, Ivy Wayland needed to find love and improve the business at her tea shop.  Already being attracted to Jaxon Langford, Ivy decided to make a batch of her family’s secret recipe magical cookies to win him over.  What could go wrong?   

The book moved along at a good pace.  Everything about this story gave me warm fuzzies.  I look forward to reading the next book in this series.  

 

Review: Whipping Up Worry (Little Dog Diner Book 8) by Emmie Lyn

April showers bring murder near the lighthouse flowers!

A missing teenager shows up at Dani Mackenzie’s Sea Breeze home on Blueberry Bay, but the runaway is too terrified to reveal anything about herself. The police, however, aren’t the least bit shy when they arrive right behind her, searching for Claire. It seems the teen was hiding at the Kitty Point Lighthouse—exactly where a body was discovered.

There’s a long list of people who are happy this victim, the Misty Harbor town manager, is dead, but Claire’s circumstances make her the prime suspect. Dani hesitates to bring more drama into her world, but after she learns that Claire is related to a dear friend in Misty Harbor, she agrees to hide the young woman to keep them both safe from harassment or worse.

But the evidence keeps coming, whipping everyone’s fear into a frenzy. Dani, along with her Jack Russel terrier, Pip, jump into high gear to unravel a deadly tangle of greed before another body is found.

This time it could be Dani’s.

 

My Review:

Lots of twists and turns.

This is another great addition to the Little Dog Diner series.  When the Misty Town manager is found dead on the same day a runaway teen, is found at the same location, all fingers point to her.  But Dani and her crew know Claire is innocent and set out to prove it.  With lots of twists and turns, this was a hard book to predict what would happen next or who the killer was.  I didn’t want to put this book down until I found out how it ended.