A Spoonful of Murder (A Soup Lover's Mystery)
3 journalers for this copy...
Donated to the shelf by a staff member!
To the finder:
Welcome to bookcrossing! You have "caught" what we call a "travelling book." It is now your book to keep or to read and pass on to another reader and follow where the book goes. This is done by journal entries, so I really hope you'll journal it, if only to tell me you found it. You can do this anonymously, or sign up (free and private, no spam) and also be able to follow the book as it travels!
To the finder:
Welcome to bookcrossing! You have "caught" what we call a "travelling book." It is now your book to keep or to read and pass on to another reader and follow where the book goes. This is done by journal entries, so I really hope you'll journal it, if only to tell me you found it. You can do this anonymously, or sign up (free and private, no spam) and also be able to follow the book as it travels!
Picked up at the OBCZ while there to drop off some books. I never can resist a first-in-series mystery!
Loved this! And not only because I love soup :-). Well-constructed mystery with a likable protagonist, Lucky Jamieson, whom I could identify with as she struggles with important life decisions.
The only (and this minor) thing that seemed strange to me is that there is much concern about the soup shop losing business because the murder victim was found just outside. I've read other mysteries (in fact one that I read at the same time as this one) where the victim is found in similar circumstances and it serves to *increase* traffic to the business because people are curious. I found the worrying about actually losing business to be strange and in contrast to these other mysteries and to real life! See what I mean - this is a minor point! Otherwise a great read.
------------------
Amazon:
Winter is big business in small-town Snowflake, Vermont. Tourists arrive to hit the ski slopes--and what could be more satisfying after a chilly day of carving powder than a steaming bowl of soup?
When Lucky Jamieson inherits her parents' soup shop, By the Spoonful, she realizes it's time to take stock of her life. Should she sell her parents' house or move in herself? Does she really want to run a restaurant business? And what about her grandfather Jack, who seems to be showing signs of Alzheimer's?
But her life decisions are moved to the back burner after an icy blonde tourist is found frozen to death behind the soup shop. and Lucky is bowled over when her soup chef, Sage DuBois, is led out of the kitchen by the police. As suspicion and speculations snowball, Lucky decides that the only way to save her employee and her business is to find out herself who iced the tourist--and landed her chef in the soup...
Recipes included!
The only (and this minor) thing that seemed strange to me is that there is much concern about the soup shop losing business because the murder victim was found just outside. I've read other mysteries (in fact one that I read at the same time as this one) where the victim is found in similar circumstances and it serves to *increase* traffic to the business because people are curious. I found the worrying about actually losing business to be strange and in contrast to these other mysteries and to real life! See what I mean - this is a minor point! Otherwise a great read.
------------------
Amazon:
Winter is big business in small-town Snowflake, Vermont. Tourists arrive to hit the ski slopes--and what could be more satisfying after a chilly day of carving powder than a steaming bowl of soup?
When Lucky Jamieson inherits her parents' soup shop, By the Spoonful, she realizes it's time to take stock of her life. Should she sell her parents' house or move in herself? Does she really want to run a restaurant business? And what about her grandfather Jack, who seems to be showing signs of Alzheimer's?
But her life decisions are moved to the back burner after an icy blonde tourist is found frozen to death behind the soup shop. and Lucky is bowled over when her soup chef, Sage DuBois, is led out of the kitchen by the police. As suspicion and speculations snowball, Lucky decides that the only way to save her employee and her business is to find out herself who iced the tourist--and landed her chef in the soup...
Recipes included!
Hoping to fulfill a wish at the convention!
I've always thought it rather bold to call something 'the first of the series'. Had she written a row before she took them to the publisher? What if the first does not sell? What if she'll have a writer's block? What if she drops dead (happened to Stieg Larsson)?Anyhow, I'm mighty pleased to have gotten more than a spoonful, eponine38!
