For Julia Snowden, the Founder’s Day summer celebration in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, means helping her family’s clambake company to prepare an authentic taste of New England seafood. Any Mainer will tell you that a real clambake needs wood for the fire… so why is there a foot sticking out of the oven?
The townspeople want to pin the murder of the RV park owner on Cabe Stone, a new employee of … employee of the Snowden Family Clambake Company — who bolted from the crime scene and disappeared. Julia knows having another murder associated with her family’s business is a recipe for disaster… but who is the killer? Cooking up a proper investigation doesn’t leave much time for the rest of Julia’s life, and this is one killer who’ll do anything to stop her from digging up clues…
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Boiled Over is the second book in the Maine Clambake Mystery series by Barbara Ross. I’ve read the first book and many other mysteries in this sub-genre. In this caper, Julia finds a dead body burning in her improvised clambake for the Founder’s Day Weekend celebration in their small Maine coastal town. A new hire looks guilty, but he has a …
I liked it alot but in the end I just couldn’t stop being mad at Julia. She’s always saying she’s going back to New York and at this point I want her to leave. She’s got a great family, a boyfriend who LOVES her and friends who care about her no matter how crappy she treats them, but its not enough. I am praying she gets her act together …
Thoroughly enjoyed this little cozy mystery! I enjoyed getting to know Julia a little more. I find her a very likable character. There is so much about the setting that speaks to me, having been born and raised in New England. What I found especially enjoyable, though, was the actual mystery. It didn’t feel forced or overly contrived or cloying, …
Book two in the Maine Clambake Mystery series. To participate in Founder’s Day Weekend Julia and her family temporarily move the clambake to the pier using the Claminator. It looks like things are going great until the fire under neath starts to pop and hiss just before a leg shows up in the middle of it causing a scene in the middle of the …
Just like the first book in the Clambake series, Barbara Ross kept me turning the pages in the second installment. I can “smell” the salty brine air and “hear” the screeching of seagulls. It’s probably another reason why I am loving this series so much. I love being by the water. Now, I would like like to experience a clambake in Maine!
Anyway, …
This is one of my favorite series and I eagerly await each new book.
Founder’s Day Weekend gets off to a rough start when a body is found in the fire the Snowden Family Clambake was using to prepare a meal. With the police looking at one of their employees, Julia must dig in and find the real killer.
The story started out strongly and never faltered as it led me through several twists and turns. The characters …