Genre: Mystery
Mass Market Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9780425274507
Berkley Prime Crime Publishing
288 Pages
$7.99; $2.99 Amazon
August 4, 2015
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When Monica Albertson comes to Cranberry Cove -- a charming town on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan -- to help her half brother, Jeff, on his cranberry farm, the last thing she expects to harvest is a dead body.
It seems that Sam Culbert, who ran the farm while Jeff was deployed overseas, had some juicy secrets that would soon prove fatal, and Jeff is ripe for picking as a prime suspect. Forming an uneasy alliance with her high-maintenance stepmother, Monica has her hands full trying to save the farm while searching for a killer. Culbert made plenty of enemies in the quaint small town...but which one was desperate enough to kill?
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Monica Albertson left a failed restaurant in Chicago to help her brother on his cranberry farm in Michigan. He bought the farm hoping to make a go of it, but so far it's been tough. So now she's out in the bogs with the other workers trying to harvest cranberries, when her rake catches on something in the bottom -- and up comes a body. It turns out that it's Sam Culbert, the man she saw her brother Jeff arguing with a day ago, and now she fears that Jeff will be at the top of the police detective's list. So, along with her stepmother Gina -- who arrived unexpectedly -- she sets out to find a killer who seems to have been able to escape any notice so far...
I really wanted to like this book, but unfortunately, it ran so slow. It was difficult to get into the beginning of it, and while cranberry farms might be interesting to some, they aren't to me. I'd go so far as to say if I were on vacation, unlike tourists in the area, I wouldn't even bother with a tour of one. (I do like cranberry juice, but that's as far as it goes for me).
Anyway, Monica is not the kind of person I'd like to know. She's judgmental of others, even going so far as to make fun of her stepmother, who apparently is a decent person and treats her like a daughter. The only complaint I have with Gina is she calls Jeff "Jeffie," and what grown woman still calls her son something like that? That's my husband's name, and I'd cringe if my mother-in-law even used it once.
Monica herself is a very bland personality, and I almost gave up on the book because of that, but I wanted to see it through anyway. I figured out the murderer the minute the person stepped onto the page, which isn't a good thing; also I felt there should have been some clue along the way, but there was nothing until the end. Monica also put herself into a stupid situation because, as I like to say, she couldn't think on her feet and didn't put it together until the last moment.
There are some great-sounding recipes at the back, so at least that's a plus. However, I'm not sure if I'll read the next in the series or not.
https://www.amazon.com/Berried-Secrets-Cranberry-Cove-Mystery/dp/0425274500/ref=
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3227272446
More on Peg Cochran's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/peg-cochran/
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