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MOUSSE AND MURDER
A young chef might bite off more than she can chew when she returns to her Alaskan hometown to take over her parents' diner in this charming first installment in a new cozy mystery series set in an Alaskan tourist town.
When Chef Charlie Cooke is offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Elkview, Alaska, to take over her mother's diner, she doesn't even consider saying no. After all -- her love life has recently become a Love Life Crumble, and a chance to reconnect with her roots may be just what she needs.
Determined to bring fresh life and flavors to the Bear Claw Diner, Charlie starts planning changes to the menu, which has grown stale over the years. But her plans are fried when her head cook Oliver turns up dead after a bitter and public fight over Charlie's ideas -- leaving Charlie as the only suspect in the the case.
With her career, freedom and life all on thin ice, Charlie must find out who the real killer is, before it's too late.
My Review:
I can honestly say I've never read a cozy mystery set in Alaska and, since I have a not-so-secret fascination with that state, I was kinda slap-happy giddy over discovering this first book in the Alaskan Diner Mystery series. And this new-to-me-author does not disappoint when it comes to making a reader feel like she's experiencing all that is wild and wonderful about Alaska. If you like to armchair travel through your fiction, this is definitely the book for you.
Love the way Logan has set the stage for this series -- great secondary characters with the diner being a central meeting place and therefore perfect for sleuthing. Also love that Charlie doesn't sleuth alone -- she has a journalist (and potential love interest?) friend who is just as eager to suss out the killer.
And there's a cat! What? You're not surprised? Well, you will be with the way Charlie interacts with him. She raises dedicated pet parenthood to a whole other level with very amusing results. In fact, that's another thing I love about this series -- the author has a deft comedic hand and that kept me grinning all the way through.
Oh -- and I absolutely appreciate that this book is a clean read!
A solid mystery with an admittedly bumbling though eager amateur sleuth who has enough grit and determination to expose a killer.
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