Genre: Mystery
Mass Market Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9780425252086
Berkley Publishing
304 Pages
$7.70; $7.99 Amazon
April 2, 2013
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Even a town called Snowflake, Vermont has a summer season. In August, Lucky Jamieson's By the Spoonful serves chilled soups - celery and green onion, cream of asparagus - and salads. The shop also serves as a gathering place to talk about cold-blooded murder...
A protest to stop the construction of an ugly car wash in the middle of the town's picturesque Village Green is interrupted by the discovery of a skeleton that may date back to the Revolutionary War. While the remains pose a historical mystery, a present-day murder shakes the town to its core when local mechanic Harry Hodges is found dead in his shop.
Straining the patience of Chief of Police Nate Edgerton, Lucky soon finds herself in the soup again when her dear friend Elizabeth, the Mayor of Snowflake, goes missing. No matter how much trouble she has to stir up, Lucky is determined to use her noodle to uncover a killer and recover her friend...
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The book begins with the year 1777 when someone is murdered. Then we fast forward to the present day where the people of Snowflake are completely against a car wash in town. (Really? You'd rather just stand in your driveway and wash your cars on a regular basis? Or do these people drive to another town that has a car wash?) I also wondered why they didn't suggest somewhere else in town for the car wash, maybe not so close to the town square. Honestly, why would he want to build it in the town square anyway? All they had to do was suggest somewhere a little farther out. But I digress...
When bones are discovered on the construction site, it is immediately shut down until they can determine how old the skeleton is. Then they discover the body of a local and the mayor goes missing, and Lucky realizes that she's going to get involved whether the police chief wants her to or not.
Well, I wanted to like this book, but it was just not interesting enough to keep my attention. Lucky is not a likable person at all, and the story line was depressing - two murders, someone being kidnapped by a mentally unstable person and another burned alive, etc.; there just wasn't anything good happening to anyone.
Not to mention Elias has to be the most boring person on the face of the earth, no wonder he wound up in this town. He's also quite well versed in things anthropologists would know about but probably not a medical doctor. Not that I'm disputing it, but I seriously doubt if medical school teaches one about pH levels in soil.
I wish I could say something better about this series, but the only thing I can think of is that I'm not going to waste my time on the rest of the books. Not even the recipes were appetizing. Who on earth is going to eat peanut butter soup? Sorry, but I'm donating the rest of the books in this series to our local library; maybe someone will find them more to their taste (pun intended).
https://www.amazon.com/Broth-Betrayal-Soup-Lovers-Mystery/dp/0425252086/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2409944289
More on Connie Archer's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/a/connie-archer/
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