When a guest is murdered at your first catering event, you might have a problem with a happy ever after!
This is the first book in the Northwest Cozy Mystery Series by USA Today Bestselling Author and seven time Amazon All-Star. Free with Kindle Unlimited.When Lisa Sanders, a well-known Seattle art gallery owner, is found dead at a prestigious dinner party, shock waves ripple through the local … dinner party, shock waves ripple through the local art community. For DeeDee Wilson, the death becomes a personal tragedy, because the dinner party was the first ever event for her fledgling catering business.
On the following day, newspaper reports indicated the cause of death was possibly poisoning, but could it have come from the food she served the guests? In order to save her business and protect her reputation, DeeDee has to find out how Lisa, the art gallery owner, died, and if it was murder, who did it and why?
Could it have been the smarmy competing gallery owner who was jealous of Lisa’s success in getting a top art glass artisan to exhibit in her gallery? Or the artist whose work she rejected because she didn’t feel it was up to her standards? Was it the disgruntled ex-girlfriend who was dumped by the man Lisa was currently seeing? Or was it a museum employee who was fired by the woman who hosted the dinner party?
Join DeeDee, Jake, a private investigator she’s developed a relationship with after her divorce, and her new dog, Balto, a husky dog with a blue eye and a brown eye, as they try to save DeeDee’s new business venture.
Fans of Dianne Harman will love her Murder on Bainbridge Island and Dee Dee, a fledgling chef, Balto, her husky dog, and Jake, her private investigator boyfriend, as she tries to solve a murder in the crazy Seattle art world before it craters her new business.
I really enjoyed this book. It was a page turner from the start with wonderful, romantic characters.
Realistic and entertaining. 5 stars!
Take a trip to beautiful Bainbridge Island, Washington, for a fun, fast-paced cozy mystery. This book is an easy and light read, the perfect beginning to a delightful series.
Loved this book. Easy to read and hated to put the book down. I loved this book so much, I read most of this book in one night. This is book 1 of A Northwest Cozy Mystery Series.
I highly recommend it and will read again.
A catered event to die for…
DeeDee Wilson knew that a new business needs plenty of publicity, but if the publicity is a dead guest at the dinner you just catered it may do more harm than good, especially when the local newspaper hints at food poisoning. The police think otherwise and if DeeDee wants to stay in business she is going to have to help the police solve the case fast.
Diane Harmon’s books are always a treat for me; excellent mysteries plus the tasty recipes to try out at the end of the book. I loved the Shrimp Pizza Appetizers in this one.
Impulsive caterer turns to sleuthing to clear her name. Good characters.
A marriage ends and a new career begins. A quaint little town is the perfect place to start over until the body shows up……..add a man and a dog to the mix and you have a great mystery. Great characters, and another new author for me.
This was a fun and light mystery with lots of fun characters and some recipes! This is the first in this series. We meet DeeDee Wilson who has just settled in at Bainbridge. She’s starting her own business, a catering business. And someone is found dead at her first event. DeeDee is determined to do her own investigation into the murder. What really happened? There’s a possible new romance for DeeDee and she has gotten herself a new dog to go along with all of her other new beginnings.
The prolific Dianne Harman has done it again! She’s a queen of cozies.
I love Dianne’s books and this is no exception. Easy to read, kept me turning the pages. Great for fans of cozy mysteries.
This is a review on the audiobook. There is a lot of mystery and intrigue. When a lady is found dead outside an event that is being catered, everyone is told not to eat dessert. The police weren’t sure if it might be food poisoning, because there didn’t appear there was any foul play.
This review is for the audio book.
I enjoyed this book. This is the first book in a new series, I must admit I have heard later books so it was fun to go back and see how it all came about. The story starts with the murder and then goes back in time to explain why Dee Dee was catering the event (so all good background information for the series) and to give you motives and suspects as to why Lisa Sanders needed to die. I did work out the killer and how Dee Dee was going to work it out (a bit to obvious a clue) but it was still a lot of fun getting there. There is also a cute dog and likeable characters in the form of Dee Dee and Jake.
After her divorce and with her grown children having left the nest Dee Dee decides to start her life over by moving to her family home she inherited after her parents death, start a new catering business and get a dog. But things go wrong on her very first job and one of the guests is killed. It is quickly proved that her cooking wasn’t the cause but Dee Dee fearing that the bad publicity of a death at her event would be bad for business, especially of such a famous art gallery owner, that she takes matters into her own hands and starts to investigate. Aided by her new dog Balto and the man who sold him to her, who is also a private investigator can they narrow down the suspects and find the killer?
The narrator was good and kept the story exciting and flowing nicely.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Most crimes seem to be about love, hate, or financial gain. Who knew the art world was so cut throat? Wonderful characters and a good plot will prevent you from putting this one down until the end I will definitely be trying a couple of the recipes too.