Death by Coffee (A Bookstore Café Mystery)
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"When Krissy Hancock and her best friend Vicki decide to open a bookstore cafe in their new town of Pine Hills, they decide to call it "Death by Coffee" after Krissy's father's most famous mystery novel."
On its way as a Wishlist tag. I hope you like it.
Oh no, I'm SO sorry! I went to write a review of the book and realized I never even journaled it when received. My sincere apologies.
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I read this a few months ago, so don’t remember details very well, but I know I read it quickly, while at the same time repeatedly thinking how silly a lot of it was. (Too bad I didn’t review it quickly as well – not to mention journaling my receipt of it in a timely manner.)
Krissy, the main character/sleuth, was extremely obnoxious at times, but she ends up getting the answers she needs to solve the mystery.
The cats in the story aren’t your typical cozy mystery sweet animals, but they added to the fun.
I love to hang out in coffee shops/cafés and bookstores (of course!), so it’s always fun to read books set in those places.
Good for a quick, light read.
Thanks again for sharing, maggiesma!
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I read this a few months ago, so don’t remember details very well, but I know I read it quickly, while at the same time repeatedly thinking how silly a lot of it was. (Too bad I didn’t review it quickly as well – not to mention journaling my receipt of it in a timely manner.)
Krissy, the main character/sleuth, was extremely obnoxious at times, but she ends up getting the answers she needs to solve the mystery.
The cats in the story aren’t your typical cozy mystery sweet animals, but they added to the fun.
I love to hang out in coffee shops/cafés and bookstores (of course!), so it’s always fun to read books set in those places.
Good for a quick, light read.
Thanks again for sharing, maggiesma!
Traveling to fulfill a wish, as a very belated Christmas present.
Released for Keep Them Moving Challenge hosted by booklady331.
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Released for Keep Them Moving Challenge hosted by booklady331.
DEAR FINDER,
Welcome to BookCrossing!
Please make a journal entry so we know this book has found a new home.You don't need to join BookCrossing and you can remain completely anonymous. However, we encourage you to join so that you can follow this book's future travels. (You’ll receive an email anytime someone makes a journal entry). It's fun, free, and confidential. If you decide to join, consider listing eponine38 as referring you.
Take your time reading the book, and after you finish, please make another journal entry to record your thoughts about it. This book is now yours, and you can keep it if you choose, though we would love for you to share it. If you pass it along, please make a release note to let others know where you left it “in the wild”, or a journal entry if you gave/sent it to a known person.
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We tea drinkers agree that coffee is a lethal drink!
The surprise book , Thomas Kinkade card and book magnets have arrived safe and sound to snowy Finland. Thank you! I have already started to write a letter in return.
The surprise book , Thomas Kinkade card and book magnets have arrived safe and sound to snowy Finland. Thank you! I have already started to write a letter in return.
Just a wee note to myself: I tagged Soozreader with this book.
Finally began reading this, now that all reading for the Falkirk Convention is done. I looked at my reserved-shelf (on the net) and realized I have a pile of books going to Soozreader, most of which I have read, but I have no clue where that pile is! That tells you something about my house-keeping powers.
I know exactly what Krissy means when she says she didn't want to live on her father's reputation. When I took my book to a publisher, I chose a different one from the rest of the family. Dad had worked there, too, at one time, but that was long ago.
I know exactly what Krissy means when she says she didn't want to live on her father's reputation. When I took my book to a publisher, I chose a different one from the rest of the family. Dad had worked there, too, at one time, but that was long ago.
Funny thing, house hunting. I've been idly going through ads of flats on the Island of Happy People, where I have lived for almost four years now in a doll house of 24m2. Krissy had chosen her house because of a kitchen island counter. It seems to be the "in" thing now, having a kitchen island in the middle of a room and I delate every flat which have that - yak. Where do you hide your mountain of dirty dishes if you have a kitchen island?
Today I went to see a flat which had enough wall space for my bookshelves (8 m), but it had a completely black kitchen, even the sink was matted black. It was probably meant for male basket-ball players (black?), because I'm not the shortest of women and the upper shelves were way too high for me. It had a very stylish bathroom and a separate toilet in the same style, but brown and grey aren't my bathroom colours and to get the muddy dog to the bathroom you would have to run with it through the living-room... The flat also had a truly pretty sauna, but we fat people don't like sauna. On the plus-side it had a big glassed balcony where I'd love to sleep during summer months and the location - 50 m to the library, 400 m to the supermarkets and underground. The biggest minus was the upcoming plumbing renovation in ten years time - I had woved not to buy a flat which would need new plumbing in my lifetime. Well, we fat people might die young...
Today I went to see a flat which had enough wall space for my bookshelves (8 m), but it had a completely black kitchen, even the sink was matted black. It was probably meant for male basket-ball players (black?), because I'm not the shortest of women and the upper shelves were way too high for me. It had a very stylish bathroom and a separate toilet in the same style, but brown and grey aren't my bathroom colours and to get the muddy dog to the bathroom you would have to run with it through the living-room... The flat also had a truly pretty sauna, but we fat people don't like sauna. On the plus-side it had a big glassed balcony where I'd love to sleep during summer months and the location - 50 m to the library, 400 m to the supermarkets and underground. The biggest minus was the upcoming plumbing renovation in ten years time - I had woved not to buy a flat which would need new plumbing in my lifetime. Well, we fat people might die young...
Misfit and Trouble - perfect names for cats! Annelis was reading another copy of this book and wrote in her JE that if she had a cat like Misfit, she would take it to the vet's and come back without it.
Rita is annoying, but like her, I can't understand why anybody would take chips out of their mugs on purpose. Idiotic. Only a person who has never been forced to live through hard times would do something like that. Like the fashion of cutting holes in your clothes to make them look rugged faster. In the end manufacturers made clothes which had holes already on the rack - and charged an arm and a leg for them.
Rita is annoying, but like her, I can't understand why anybody would take chips out of their mugs on purpose. Idiotic. Only a person who has never been forced to live through hard times would do something like that. Like the fashion of cutting holes in your clothes to make them look rugged faster. In the end manufacturers made clothes which had holes already on the rack - and charged an arm and a leg for them.
The writer does not seem to know that cats don't pee and poo outside the box out of malice, very often it is a sign of stress, like a move (which had just happened in the book). But then cats seem to get stress of almost anything, so I better stick to dogs.
"Misfit still had his claws..." De-clawing has always been forbidden in Finland and nobody has ever even asked if it were possible. It is a totally foreign idea to us.
I remember once being in a vet congress in Amsterdam and the poor American lecturer was telling a story which didn't even have anything to do with his actual topic, a story how his daughter had taken their rabbit to school on a pet-day and he happened to mention that it wasn't de-clawed and the whole audience of European vets got enraged. It didn't help at all that he said it is often done for safety reasons.
"What do you do to dogs which are taken to school on a pet-day? Pull out their teeth?"
When he finally managed to move to his lecture he had the whole audience hating him. I guess he will remember never to mention de-clawing to Europians again.
I remember once being in a vet congress in Amsterdam and the poor American lecturer was telling a story which didn't even have anything to do with his actual topic, a story how his daughter had taken their rabbit to school on a pet-day and he happened to mention that it wasn't de-clawed and the whole audience of European vets got enraged. It didn't help at all that he said it is often done for safety reasons.
"What do you do to dogs which are taken to school on a pet-day? Pull out their teeth?"
When he finally managed to move to his lecture he had the whole audience hating him. I guess he will remember never to mention de-clawing to Europians again.
Finished reading this in a park, enjoying the August sun and a mild breeze. For some reason, somebody is playing bagpipes on one of the closeby islands!
Krissy is one of those featherheads who would get herself killed in no time in real life, if she went "investigating" like she did. For some reason, heroines of cozy mysteries are often like her, which makes no sense, but it is probably easier plot-wise to have the leading lady stumble to the murderer by trial and error than to write a really clever mystery.
Seven years ago to the day my ex-workmate Jenni was brutallly murdered 😥. It put me off mysteries for a long time and cozies are the only type I can nowadays read of that genre.
Krissy is one of those featherheads who would get herself killed in no time in real life, if she went "investigating" like she did. For some reason, heroines of cozy mysteries are often like her, which makes no sense, but it is probably easier plot-wise to have the leading lady stumble to the murderer by trial and error than to write a really clever mystery.
Seven years ago to the day my ex-workmate Jenni was brutallly murdered 😥. It put me off mysteries for a long time and cozies are the only type I can nowadays read of that genre.
Journal Entry 13 by kirjakko at Joensuu, Pohjois-Karjala / Norra Karelen Finland on Monday, August 7, 2023
Released 7 mos ago (8/7/2023 UTC) at Joensuu, Pohjois-Karjala / Norra Karelen Finland
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A wishlist tag. The moral of the story: Don't get a cat!
Journal Entry 14 by Soozreader at Joensuu, Pohjois-Karjala / Norra Karelen Finland on Thursday, August 10, 2023
Thank you very much for this wishlist book! I don’t drink coffee and I don’t have any cats but nevertheless I look forward to reading this.