Death by Pumpkin Spice (Bookstore Cafe Mystery, #3) By Alex Erickson
Death by pumpkin spice book
But is as petulant as a 12 year old She is not a cop and says so repeatedly but stick her nose into the murder investigation and begins to act like the lead and only investigator even after being told repeatedly by the cops and other people to stop She talks about it being her investigation and she won t be left out of her case The cops threaten to lock her up and then do a 180 and do as she says I would have locked her up and charged her with obstruction and interference a long time ago She holds back information from one detective and even the police chief to hold on to her involvement and won t tell anyone but a cop named Paul who she has a crush on.
Death by pumpkin spice book
Quite unexpectedly a beautiful lady dressed as the late Marilyn Munroe is found dead in another part of the house Detective Paul rules it as death by homicide Someone at the party killed this Marilyn Munroe look a like and they are still there at the party blending in with the other guests Detective Paul asks Krissie to help him gather evidence and help him solve this crime No one is allowed to leave this party until the killer is found and arrested Will Krissie and the detective find the real murderer and bring justice for this girls murder I wasn t overly fond of the narrator for this audio book She had a robot type voice so it took me a while to get into the story However once I got used to her style of reading I did get drawn into the story The mystery was good but I didn t guess the real killer I thought the book was entertaining and unpredictable A little scary as it should have been since it was a Halloween Cozy Mystery I recommend this book to readers of Cozy Mystery It s part of a series but can be read out of order and as a stand alone I borrowed an Audio book of Death by Pumpkin Spice from Hoopla Review was not requested All thoughts and opinions expressed here are my own English Well.
Death by pumpkin spice by alex erickson
Krissy lends her former flame a hand Can they solve the case before someone else s evening ends permanently My imagination had a tendency to get me into trouble than I cared to admit It was a wonder it hadn t gotten me killed yet. Death by pumpkin spice book This was a fun little read I love the Halloween atmosphere and the fact the whole book took place over just one evening The mystery had some interesting twists and turns I was left guessing right until the end The characters were likable for the most part We don t really get a lot of information about Will and I found Krissy a bit annoying at times I also found it to drag a bit in parts. Death by pumpkin spice book This is the first book I have read in the series and I will say that I felt like I was dropped into an ongoing storyline in regards to Krissy and Paul For that reason alone I would suggest reading the other books in the series first It wasn t a HUGE distraction.
Death by pumpkin spice book
Bookstore caf owner Krissy Hancock would rather spend Halloween serving pumpkin goodies than wearing costumes with Pine Hills wealthiest at Yarborough mansion especially when the soiree shapes up to be trick than treat As if a run in with an old flame and a failed marriage proposal weren t enough to horrify Krissy for one night a woman is found strangled to death in a room filled with ominous jack o lanterns All signs suggest a crime of passion but when the hostess s jewelry disappears malevolent intentions seem way likely With the estate on lockdown and a killer roaming the halls Krissy must help Officer Paul Dalton investigate each nook cranny and guest for answers while also confronting a few demons of her own Someone has lots of skeletons in the closet and Krissy better tread lightly to expose them Death by Pumpkin Spice Bookstore Cafe Mystery 3 
I m not rating this book because I didn t finish it I picked it out for the Halloween theme but after a few chapters I just don t like the main character Her insecurity is so crippling that it s making me anxious too Concept you are a valid human being whether you look good in a costume or not So I popped on here to read other reviews and I see that the characterization remains consistent and there s going to be an annoying love triangle I ve finally decided that life is too short to spend time on things I don t really enjoy English Right off the bat I don t like the heroine of the story Negative self esteem no confidence or will power she is a spineless doormat As the book progresses all of a sudden she does a 180 and had spunk had one date with and thinks she is in love with him despite being on a date with a doctor named Will who she likes possibly loves then doesn t then does. Death by pumpkin spice book she goes back and forth between these two men like a ping pong ball at a table top tournament What these two men see in her I will never know because all she shows them is self doubt an attitude of a preteen and keeps running off on them at the drop of a hat Oh and she is being stalked by Robert her ex boyfriend who just won t leave her alone She goes from being scared of him and thinking to get away and what she might do to him to 1 action and back to being scared He grabs her and harasses her twice in front of witnesses and she never once asks for help She is standing next to the police chief at her last encounter with him and doesn t mention that she doesn t like him he is staking her and she is afraid By the end of the story when she has a confrontation with the bad guy I was rooting for him to kill her For however big the town in the story is and it sounds like a nice size it had 2 cops and a police chief who are all incompetent if you ask me To rely on and let this woman run all over them is a joke this case and any previously and I d guess after would never hold up in any court Yet the author wants us to believe that this is just the norm I know it s fiction and a cozy mystery but this is just too much out in left field fiction English Maybe the author would have done better to write this as a stage play The coffee shop and bookshop at the start are fine a brief insight to the daily life of our protagonist I hadn t read any of the series previously The shop owner is determined to be successful on her own merits not her father s yet we re later told she hosted a launch for one of her father s works And even though a person apparently died in her shop she kept the name Death by Coffee Most establishments would have had the good taste to change it With a Hallowe en party invite to accompany a well off doctor Will the protagonist buys herself a cheap Sherlock Holmes costume which she promptly derides and thinks is cheap looking Most women would dress as something attractive but not all At the party the much richer hostess is keeping her late husband s traditions going which include the worst taste decor imaginable This is why the book ought to be a stage play Zombies death scenes ghouls fake blood as permanent decor All over the house I can t see a wealthy lady living in the same house as this man if they stayed married and as soon as he was decently buried I am very sure she would have called in workers to remove the excesses Maybe sooner Nobody would judge her badly for that When a death occurs the protag is called upon by the cop she dated once Paul To help him investigate She is not a public official not a police officer not a doctor or lawyer She owns a coffee shop I was entirely convinced that the doctor would have been called upon to do things like checking the body for signs of life certifying the death suggesting how the person was killed securing the crime scene in the absence of other police The doctor ought to have instantly been offering to examine the body for signs of life That is what doctors do Not this one Will stands around in the crowd and goes off to get a drink Unfortunately the rest of the story occurs in the same hideous location due to a snowstorm The author uses this eventuality to show aspects of the characters of wealthy people These people must all have been on tranquilisers as not one gets on the phone to their lawyer starts freaking out about being in the proximity of violent death expresses fear shock or anything else natural They just gossip eat drink and act snobby The protag rings a lady she knows for information and acts just as stiffly to her hanging up on her than once Entirely unconvincing after a promising start The title is unconnected to the crime except that a pumpkin is involved This is an unbiased review English Wow what a book to finish just before the presidential debate English Caf owner and head baker Krissy is gearing up for the Halloween season with a plethora of pumpkin infused delicacies She along with her punked out skateboarding assistant Lena run the caf while upstairs Vicki runs the bookstore In walks eligible highly handsome Will to ask Krissy to a earnestly sought invitation only annual soir e at a local mansion Her ga ga actions to his presence all but made me gag but hey whatevs Krissy is not known for her creative costume flair so she s a bit flustered worried she ll flop and ruin further chances with Mr Wonderful But go she does and things seem to stroll along until one of the 3 Marilyn Monroe s is found dead after rebuffing a marriage proposal It s a whodunnit in a mansion of horrors and Krissy along with her one date ex cop begin their sleuthing to narrow down suspects Add in another ex beau who can t accept NO with a bunch of snobby hoity toities a jewelry thief a cornucopia of supporting characters and a budding romance and things get dicey real quick The ick of the first chapter was just about forgiven when our author decides to have Krissy chase after a lone male who just took off running into the downpouring rain the darkness of night and the woods instead of having either of the police or ANYone else go. Death by pumpkin spice by alex erickson Much the same as the story goes Plenty of twists to keep it interesting but just can t handle Krissy s bravado and over zealous need to solve things on her own She s annoying and I m uninterested in reading of this series Alas English Death by Pumpkin Spice is a 2016 Kensington publication I ve been keeping my eyes peeled for a light fall or Halloween read to feature on my blog The cover and title of this book seemed perfect for what I was in the mood for Krissy is invited by her possible love interest Will to a costume party but soon after their arrival one of the several women dressed as Marilyn Monroe is murdered After having worked with local law enforcement previously Krissy is asked to help contain the crowd and gets involved in the questioning of the guest while she copes with her stalker of an ex boyfriend and the attention of the two men she has feelings for Unfortunately this book was a bit of a mess It was too busy too disorganized and the main protagonist is all over the place She s full of jealousy with a lack of self confidence but doesn t mind toying with the affections of two seemingly nice men I got annoyed with the story by the midway mark and considered giving up on it entirely but of course I never can seem to make myself do that so I stuck with it Finally in the last couple of chapters the writing firmed up enough to piece the mystery together and I realized I was actually into the story for the first time Although the mystery ended on a high note with all the threads finally coming together having to wade through all the muck to get to that point was not worth it and I still couldn t make myself like Krissy This is probably not the best representation of this author s work and I would ordinarily be open to trying another installment but I m not sure I can face another book featuring with this protagonist 2 stars English I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review Krissy Hancock and her best friend Vicki own Death By Coffee a cafe and bookstore in one When Krissy gets invited to a swanky Halloween party at a eccentric mansion by handsome Will Foster she isn t sure if she wants to go or not She knows she won t fit in She wavers on her answer because Will is really nice and she hasn t had too much luck in the dating department so she agrees to go Will is great but she already feels out of place as soon as she walks in Everyone is so rich and decked out to the nines The mansion is also completely Halloween themed year around The owner built it that way because he loved the holiday and the horror genre so much but sadly he recently had passed on Keeping with tradition his widow throws the party this year in his memory When Krissy s long time crush Officer Paul Dalton walks in with his beautiful date Krissy knows this party cannot get worse But when a body is found brutally strangled Krissy is horrified and excited Solving mysteries is a favorite pastime of hers much to the chagrin of Paul With no one else to turn to and the storm of the year seclude get the mansion from backup Paul asks Krissy to help him investigate Krissy s Halloween just got a whole lot better This is the third book in the Bookstore Cafe Mystery series but it is the first one I have read I really liked the mystery a lot It reminded me of an old English mystery in a secluded manor house even though there were over 100 people there The mystery had some twists but when a glaring clue is discovered the reader can t help but wonder how Krissy can t figure it out It becomes very obvious who the culprit is I also really enjoyed the setting The house was a permanent haunted mansion I wish the author would have put effort into incorporating that fact into the story The eccentricities of the mansion were just a mentioned upon backdrop though I felt like a giant opportunity was lost there. Death by pumpkin spice by alex erickson The main character Krissy is very annoying One minute she is full of self doubt and needs to be coddled then the next she is sassy and thinking she is Rambo Someone give this girl some Lithium She is also almost TSTL She has no training at all but she runs headfirst into dangerous situations even when she knows she should get Paul She thinks she is a great consultant but really she is a Police lawsuit just waiting to happen She is also an adult and business owner but has a horrible time saying slept with or had sex with out loud What She isn t that young but she is that immature She was not very likable at all. Death by pumpkin spice book I am not sure if I would read other books in this series or not It would depend on my mood I would recommend it to cozy fans though because it did keep my interest and they might be inclined to like Krissy s Bipolar personality English Will invites Krissie out on a date and he is taking her to the best Halloween costume party in town Everyone who is anyone wants to be a guest at this party But once there just as the party gets in full swing the title is a complete lie totally fraudulent advertising Not one death had anything to do with pumpkin spice Hell pumpkin spice barely played a role in the story Huge disappointment on several levels I mean the title is what caught my attention to begin with and then the cover the blurb was almost irrelevant I am actually and quite severely allergic to many spices including the ones that make up pumpkin spice It s a running joke among friends and co workers that they easily kill me off with spices especially at this time of year So when I saw the title of course it grabbed my attention But even if I weren t allergic to spices the title would still be misleading since as I mentioned pumpkin spice plays no part n any deaths and is pretty much irrelevant to the story Waste of a good title. Death by pumpkin spice book Our heroine Krissy is impulsive nosy and a buttinsky I wanted to like her and I did like some things about her I could relate to her insecurities even though they got tiresome she seems like a good friend she loves books and she s determined which is both a positive and negative trait But her negative traits tended for me anyway to outweigh her positives. Death by pumpkin spice by alex erickson Who was I ever to listen I bolted after him feeling only mildly guilty for ignoring his orders yet again Now sure many of us have times when we don t listen to sense or reason but she ignores both consistently throughout the story and it got tiring Krissy has no valid reason for being part of the police investigation her involvement is spurious and I highly doubt that the police would have actually invited her help The police are portrayed as mildly competent Krissy finds most of the clues and even questions suspects I had a hard time buying into it. Death by pumpkin spice by alex erickson Then there s a love triangle that needs to be resolved ASAP They re bad enough in romance novels I don t want them contaminating my mysteries Yeah not a fan of the love triangle trope Her current boyfriend Will is almost too perfect to be true he has no problem being ignored by her at the party they attend thinks it s cute and wonderful that she gets involved in police investigations and thinks she s beautiful even when she doesn t Honestly the character development left a lot to be desired Oh and there s the now cliched stalker ex yawn. Death by pumpkin spice book The mystery itself was well done There were lots of red herrings sprinkled among genuine clues and the killer s identity was surprising but not when all of the pieces came together There were several good suspects and a few obvious ones I kept changing my mind on who the killer was The set up of having all of the suspects trapped by bad weather and the police force unable to quickly arrive should have made for high tension but it was only moderately tense though it did provide the pretense for Krissy getting involved The mystery and the hope that the title event would actually happen kept me reading I have another book by this author in this series in my TBR pile and I m torn about reading it now I wasn t impressed with the overall writing in this story but the mystery did keep me guessing English Krissy Hancock owns and runs Death By Coffee her and her friend Vicki s bookstore caf When the charming Will Foster invites her to a Halloween party at one of the swanky mansions in Pine Hill she is less than enthusiastic Will is good looking and charming though and with her failed attempt at romance with Officer Paul Dalton still fresh in her mind she finds herself saying YES. Death by pumpkin spice book What starts out as a fun evening soon turns into a murder investigation when one of the guests is found dead With the maison on lockdown and a killer amongst them but details of prior books are given which could spoil the previous books if you wanted to go on and read those after. Death by pumpkin spice book I also wasn t crazy about the whole WILL KRISSY PAUL triangle thing This isn t a romance book so no sexy times or anything like that I felt the author gave way too much page time to Krissy s waffling back and forth between Will and Paul One minute she is drooling over Will and going on and on about what a handsome great guy he is Then in the next breath she is all about Paul and drooling over him I think the author could have cut some of that out and it would have helped to move the story along . Death by pumpkin spice book I huffed and crossed my arms over my chest I didn t like listening to reason even when it made perfect sense Maybe that was why I was always getting myself into trouble, Death by pumpkin spice by alex erickson Overall though a very decent way to spend a few hours English
| Death by Pumpkin Spice (Bookstore Cafe Mystery, #3) By Alex Erickson |
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