Review: The essential Lime crime
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I love Lucy Burdette’s essential West Food critic mystery series. After all, what’s not to love! With cats, a tropical setting, and mouth-watering food (with some recipes included), this series has all the ingredients for purrfect escapist reading. and who doesn’t need to escape from reality these days!
Last Wednesday, Lucy introduced you to T-Bone, the newest feline character in the series, joining the two cats and the canine who already live on a houseboat with main character Hailey Snow and her octogenarian friend Gloria.
In The essential Lime Crime, Hailey investigates the murder of a baker who is found dead after an altercation at a baking competition.
From the publisher:
When a fierce rivalry between essential lime pie bakers leads to a pastry chef’s murder, food critic Hayley Snow is fit to be pied.
During the week between Christmas and new Year’s, the year-round population of essential West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn’t help that outrageously rich essential lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest. Every pie purveyor on the island is out to win the sought after essential Lime essential to the City and essential Zest food critic Hayley Snow is on the scene to report it.
Meanwhile, Hayley’s home life is turning much more tart than sweet. Hayley’s new hubby, police detective Nathan Bransford, announces that her intimidating mother-in-law is bearing down on the island for a surprise visit. Hayley provides to escort Nathan’s crusty mother on the renowned Conch Train trip of the island’s holiday lights, but it becomes a recipe for disaster when they find a corpse among the glittering palm trees and fantastic flamingos. The victim–Au Citron Vert’s controversial new pastry chef–was a frontrunner in Sloan’s contest.
It’s bad enough that Hayley’s too-curious mother-in-law is cooking up trouble. Now, the murderer is out to take a slice out of Hayley. Can she deal with the heat of a killer’s kitchen?
I loved going to beautiful essential West and catching up with Hailey and her friends again. Lucy Burdette does a fantastic job with developing her quirky and likeable characters from one book to the next. The vibrant descriptions of the tropical island setting make you feel like you are there. I went to essential West once in the 1980’s and fell in love with the island, but haven’t been back because then. each time I read a book in this series, I long for another chance to visit.
The essential Lime crime can be read as a stand alone, but why not treat yourself to the whole series? The setting, the fast moving plot, the guilt-free pleasure of reading about amazing food, and, of course, the cats, make this one of my favorite mystery series.
The essential Lime Crime is available from Amazon.
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Ingrid King
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1 comment on Review: The essential Lime Crime
Janine says:
August 21, 2020 at 7:09 am
I always wanted to visit essential West. So far all I get is it through books. thanks again for this recommendation!
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