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Tastes Like Murder
- Cookies & Chance Mysteries, Book 1
- Narrated by: Karen Rose Richter
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
Sally Muccio's had her crosses to bear: a cheating ex-boyfriend, crazy Italian parents, and an unfaithful husband, just to name a few. After her divorce, she returns to her hometown to start a novelty cookie shop whose specialties include original fortune cookies, served with a sprinkle of foreshadowing.
But there's no warning when her ex-husband's mistress drops dead on Sal's porch, and police confirm it's a homicide. Determined to stop her life from becoming a recipe for disaster, Sal takes matters into her own hands.
With two very different men vying for her affection, dead bodies piling up, and a reputation hanging by an apron string, Sal finds herself in a race against time to save both her business and life - before the last cookie crumbles.
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- Bookaholic
- 28-11-22
Tastes Like Murder
I found this story interesting, some of the characters I liked, and there were several twists in the story.
The narration was good.
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- DubaiReader
- 27-01-19
Cosy mystery.
This was an entertaining, light-weight listen, for lovers of cosy mysteries. I enjoyed the narration by Karen Rose Richter, who managed managed male and female voices equally well.
Sally Muccio (Sal) has returned to her home town to open up a cookie shop with her best friend Josie Sullivan. She has left behind a loser of a husband and is ready to make a new start. Unfortunately her ex-husband's lover is set on making problems for Sal, ultimately falling dead on her doorstep. Sal feels compelled to find out why Amanda died, before her business collapses under suspicion that her cookies were responsible.
There are some real quirky characters in here. Sal's family are nuts; her mother thinks she's still a teenager and dresses appropriately, and her father is obsessed by death, funerals and coffins. An elderly neighbour is constantly rude, for no apparent reason. Thank goodness for the wise old grandmother who holds them all together.
To add interest, two sexy men are chasing Sal, an ex boyfriend, and a dashing policeman, who will she go out to dinner with?
A fun listen, got the ironing done with a smile on my face :)
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- Julie
- 04-05-22
A mystery wrapped up in a cookie
I enjoyed this book. It focused to much on trying to decide which man was the love of her life for me to give it a five star, I do like romances in cozy mystery but not as the main focus, it was only going out for a meal not a marriage proposal. Other than that the characters are to say the least interesting and very very quirky, which made it fun. Some of the characters I didn't take to, as they were rude and I don't just mean the murder victim and unfortunately at times this also included the main character. Surprisingly it worked for the sidekick/ best friend, who spoke her mind but somehow it seemed right for her or it might just have been she was retaliating rather than starting it. The mystery was good though, there wasn't a great deal of suspects but I never did guess the killer.
Sally after her divorce returns home to run a bakery with her best friend. Where she expects to keep measuring her father for his coffin, playing adult as her mother plays out second childhood, even seeing the first boy who she ever loved and broke her heart but what she didn't expect was find the woman who broke up her marriage dead in her bakery. Sally and her best friend Jose will have to solve her murder if they want to stay in business. The dead woman owned the local spa and between her staff and her family they have a number of suspects to investigate but when another body is found with more of there cookies laying next to the body, will things get to hot for the pair? Speaking of hot Sally's first love is back in the picture and the detective investigating the murder is also taking a closer look at her than he needs. She is ready to catch a killer and a date?
I liked the narrator. She used a number of different voices to play the characters making it an enjoyable listen.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- Mrs. C. J. Mchardy
- 18-10-23
great first in series
Sally Muccio (Sal) has returned to her home town after a messy divorce. She now owns and runs a novelty cookie shop with her BFF Josie Sullivan.. When the woman that caused her divorce dies on her shop porch. She is the chief suspect. She and Josie decide to investigate.
This is a great cosy mystery. I loved Sal's family. and the men in her life are hot.
I look forward to reading and listening to more in this series.
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- Norma Miles
- 31-10-17
Winnie the Pooh could drink you under the table.
An enjoyable plot made irritating by one of the (unintentionally) silliest heroines this reader has encountered. So accident prone, the question has to be posed - does she suffer from some disability as yet unrecognised? - the lead protagonist Sally who, with her school (and best) friend Josie, has opened a cookie shop in her home town, is recently divorced. Ten years before she had broken with her one true love boyfriend because she caught him drunk in the arms of another girl. On the rebound, she was swept away by Colin, marrying him five years later only then to discover what an unfaithful hound he was. Dah!
When Sally's nemesis is found dead on the porch of her shop, Sally and Josie go into investigative action to find the culprit despite being warned by the delectable policeman to stay out of it and 'leave it to the police.' Do they need the warnings? Of course not, blundering through interviews and nosing about as the fortunes in the fortune cookies become ever more foolish.
So, a mystery and a romance, of a sort (at least there is a load of angst spilt by Sally). For this reader, the main mystery was what on earth any of the men in her town saw in her? But, hey, I'm only a woman.
Yes, I am being harsh. It was a fun listen made much better by the narrator, Karen Rose Richter, whose pleasant vocal ntonation carried the story well with good voicing changes for the individual protagonists. And my thanks go to the rights holder who gifted me a complimentary copy of the book, via Audiobook Boom.. Not my cup of tea, perhaps, but I am sure that readers with a fondness for romance mixed into their less than stringent murder mysteries might love it.
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- VoraciousBookDragoness
- 01-05-22
Story well written and great narration
Story well written and great narration.
I am voluntarily reviewing a copy I received free from the author.
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