Genre: Mystery
Trade Paperback; Mass Market Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781451643602
Gallery Books
275 Pages
$18.99; $21.86; $4.99 Amazon
February 21, 2012
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Dr. Willow McQuade, ND, a twenty-eight-year-old doctor specializing in natural remedies, has decided to take a sabbatical and visit her Aunt Claire, the owner of Nature's Way Market and Cafe in idyllic Greenport, Long Island. The idea of rest and relaxation is quickly forgotten when Willow arrives from a morning meditative walk to discover her Aunt Claire dead in the store, a strange almond-like smell emanating from her mouth and a bottle of flower essences by her side.
Despite her Zen nature and penchant for Yoga, her Aunt Claire had a knack for getting into confrontations with folks. An activist, she held weekly meetings for different causes every week in the store. The police want to believe the death is accidental -- but Willow thinks she may have been poisoned.
Things get worse when Aunt Claire's valuable recipe for a new natural age-defying formula, Fresh Face, is stolen during a store break-in, and an attempt is made on Willow's life. Desperate for a way out of the mess, she turns to a handsome young cop, Jackson Spade. Will they be able to solve the case...the natural way?
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Dr. Willow McQuade is a naturalist, and she's come to visit her Aunt Claire, who owns Nature's Way Market and Cafe in Greenport, Long Island. Claire tells Willow that she's working on a formula called Fresh Face, which will make her money. Then Claire receives a telephone call she wants to take privately, Willow leaves; but Claire calls her and when Willow can't understand what she's saying, she returns to find Claire dead, and smells almonds in her mouth. She calls the police, and tells them that she thinks Claire was murdered.
The police don't know whether to believe her, but they suspect her of the crime, and tell her not to leave. Then Willow discovers that she's inherited everything Claire owned, and makes an instant enemy of Claire's employee, Janice, who thinks it should have come to her. Then the "accidents" start to happen, and Willow knows she's being targeted, but by whom? The police think she's guilty and won't look anywhere else, and refuse to believe anyone is 'out to get her.' So, with the help of a policeman who's on disability, Claire decides to look into the matter herself...and hope she can survive to find a killer...
Okay, I really tried to find something good about this book. But honestly, it reads like a manual for a health food store. If you removed everything that was telling people how to cure their ailments, this would probably be about forty pages long. That's it.
Plus, the detectives were rotten people. They never took her seriously, and even went so far as to make fun of her and threaten Jackson. What kind of cops does things like that? They never investigated any of the things that were happening to her and her shop, all because they were convinced she killed her aunt for the money. Well, if she did, how much sense would it make to destroy the things she supposedly killed her aunt for?
Let me tell you something else: if I was having heart problems, I'd trust a doctor far more than natural remedies, but probably only because I wanted to live. The fact that Claire wanted her mother to take herbs instead seemed ludicrous to me.
At any rate, I slogged through this information packet hoping to find something interesting enough about a murder, but by the time the book ended, I just didn't care anymore. I won't be reading any more from this author. Sorry.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Drops-Natural-Remedies-Mystery/dp/1451643608/ref
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3233329116
More on Chrystle Fiedler's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/f/chrystle-fiedler/
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