Author: Patti Benning
Genre: Mystery
Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781708272043
Independently Published
130 Pages
$6.99; $2.99 Amazon
November 14, 2019
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A candy by any other name...Might just be murder. Candy shop owner, Candice Rothberg, formerly Candice Darling, is excited for Christmas. It's hard not to be, in a town as festive as Lake Marion, Michigan. When Candice learns that a local bakery is hosting a gingerbread house building contest, she eagerly dives right in. With her background in candy and all things delicious, she plans to rock the contest, whether she wins it or not.
What stars out to be a fund and delicious contest ends up being a holiday horror, when one of the competitors dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a mysterious candy wrapper and more questions than answers. When the killer targets a second victim, Candice realies all of the mystery and intrigue, oddly, has something to do with her. Will she figure out who the culprit is, before it's too late? Or will this be a season of suffering for Lake Marion?
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Candice Rothberg owns a candy shop in Lake Marion, Michigan. Her husband, Eli, was injured in a fire and hasn't been able to find a job he can work full time without pain, but he's trying. Candice is looking forward to the local gingerbread house contest, which she hopes to win, but one of the contestants is a baker who has won the previous years, so she's a bit nervous about competing against her.
But before the contest begins, the woman eats a piece of candy and dies. It's determined that she was poisoned, and now Candice wants to know who murdered her. But will she find a killer before there's another victim? Or will the killer target her instead?
I wanted to read this book because it was getting close to Christmas, and I wanted to 'read the season,' as it were. However, I was, unfortunately, sorely disappointed in this book altogether. The writing was sophomoric, and perhaps it is geared toward others, but not me.
I didn't find the plot particularly interesting, nor the people in the book. There wasn't really a mystery at all, and you really don't have to look for any clues. It was tough slogging through this book, and when I came to the end, the murderer practically threw themself at the reader. The reason for the killing didn't even make any sense to me. Sorry, but I didn't enjoy this book at all and won't read any more of this series.
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