“Side-splittingly funny and great little thriller. West gives Evanovich a run for her money. Loved this book. Can’t wait for the next!” Posie Arnold Entertainment Now
USA Today Best Selling Author Linda West’s new humorous cozy mystery! 5***** A cozy culinary mystery dream with the best chili recipe I’ve ever tried!!! This small-town cozy mystery is full of laugh out loud fun at the combo … is full of laugh out loud fun at the combo bakery-bookshop that is filled with humorous characters and a few adorable cats you can’t help but love. Sprinkled with great scenes and witty dialogue this is a page turning who dun thriller that will leave you guessing and cheering at the end! LOVED IT!!” – Ophine D’Leur
“A gripping fun suspense thriller and cozy mystery. Set in a small ski town and centered around a magical bakery. This is humorous American literature at its best.” Dan Collins Dartmouth
“I love books with arts and crafts and small town cozy mysteries! This one take place at the Enchanted Cafe – a bookstore/cafe that serves up magical recipes and happiness for its customers! Soooo cute! I love that the author weaves in animals as characters that move the plot forward. Great fun can’t wait for the next cozy suspense that made me laugh out loud!”
Victoria Josh
“Crime fiction noir at it’s finest. Funny, artful, fast-moving and a great little mystery! Culinary suspense and magical undertones make this a very enjoyable read.”
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A humorous lighthearted cozy mystery that is full of suspense and twists and turns that will leave you laughing and surprised. Kat O’Hara returns home penniless, heartbroken and without a job. When the magical Landers sisters hire her to run their new Enchanted Cafe little do they suspect that a gruesome murder is about to take place in the small town of Kissing Bridge Mountain. Things bubble over at the big chili cook-off when a crockpot goes missing and a body is found.
“5***** “Funny! I laughed out loud. This book is unique and page turning. Highly recommended!” S. Sprawling FutureTrends
“5****** Love these characters. I laughed out loud which is a rare thing. Lots of books claim that but I rarely find them funny. This one did it for me! Will be looking for the next one in the series!” Dawn Deviso Youngstown, NY
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5 Star review Death by Crockpot (A Kissing Bridge Cozy Mystery) by Linda West
Audio Review:
A new author to me although I have listened to a couple of cozy mystery books narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya previously
The narrator did a fabulous job and certainly kept me engaged as I listened to Death by Crockpot and can I just say I love the tittle?
When Kat O’Hara returns to Kissing Bridge (another great name) she has no idea of the danger and mystery she is about to encounter.
This was a book filled with intrigue, danger, suspense, twists and turns and was altogether a thoroughly enjoyable listen. In fact I will be on the look out for more books by this author as soon as I can.
This review is for the audio book.
I enjoyed this book. This is my first introduction to the kissing bridge community and what an introduction it was, It is a nice fun cozy mystery, with great characters and unusual cats. The sisters are called the magical Landers sisters but not really sure if they are witches or not because other than very special sandwiches which were made and a few times a magical cook book is mentioned, nothing else comes of it and no spells are cast. Oh and is the main character a witch because she is very handy with a bottle top? The mystery was good and did keep you guessing. But it is the characters themselves that really made the book, they are quirky enough to make it entertaining and a series to look out for in the future.
Kat is entering her chilli in the big chilli cook-off and her team has a good chance of winning this year. That is until one of her team mate and her crockpot goes missing before the judges announces the winner. Running low of food to serve the judges Kat goes looking for her only to nearly get attacked. Next time she goes looking for her friend she takes the law with her and that when they find her friend standing over the dead body of her ex fiance holding the murder weapon and missing crockpot. Kat doesn’t believe her friend could have killed him but the police don’t hold her beliefs and arrest her. Can Kat find the missing letter, the letter that made her friend go running to her ex side? More importantly can Kat prove she didn’t kill him? It seems the dead man had made a number of enemies lately. In clued in that list is even his own sister and nephew. But could they have killed him over money? The will reading doesn’t help much as he left everything to his new wife and when she gets killed things get really complicated. Will eating some special sandwiches help Kat get to the bottom of both murders in time for the new cafe to open?
I liked the narrator, she is so bubbly that you just can’t help but enjoy the story with her reading it
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… but it mostly was an age of foolishness. Kat O’Hara has returned home to Kissing Bridge, Vermont nursing a broken heart. She is lucky to receive a job from family friends, the Landers sisters. They are opening a new restaurant adjacent to their popular bakery and have a position for Kat in the cafe.
The ladies enter a big chili cook-off held at the nearby town of Six Pines in order to promote the cafe. They are sure they will win, but have no idea that they will find themselves embroiled in a murder investigation.
I wanted to like this book. I was drawn to it from the cover and the description sounded interesting. I listened to the audiobook version of the book and the reader was very distracting to me. She frequently made it difficult to differentiate between characters. I should have known when a character was described as having dish-washer blonde hair that I should just stop listening.
I found the main character annoying, but I’m not sure if it was the writing or the reading. She comes across as a screechy whiner who likes to drink. The story would have been fine without her, instead focusing on the Landers sisters as the protagonists. Their characters were better developed than Kat. In fact, they were the main source of any entertainment in the book.
The setting has potential but there is little to no description to set the scene. Like all cozies it takes place in a small town, or in this case, two small towns. I have know idea what is supposed to make Kissing Bridge special.
I was 80% of the way through the book when finally I found interest in the plot. That occurred when one of the Landers sisters became a more prominent character and led the amateur investigation of the murder.
I do not recommend this book. It is a poorly executed tale of a murder taking place in one city and being solved by people from the neighboring city.