Lost and Fondue
2 journalers for this copy...
Swapped from the shelf of the MS VistaExplorer. Book 2 from the Cheese Shop Mysteries.
from the cover:
Charlotte Bessette - proprietor of Providence, Ohio`s, charming cheese shop - is busy catering a fund-raiser for her best friend, Meredith. In addition to gourmet fondues, Charlotte is serving an array of delicious cheeses and delightful wines - the perfect complement to the setting of the wine-tasting party, a once-abandoned winery. But not everyone is happy, for the winery has long been a source of local legends about hidden treasures - and buried bodies.
When a fresh body is found in the wine cellar and Meredith's niece, Quinn, becomes the chief suspect, Charlotte trades in her fondue fork for a flashlight to prove the case against Quinn has more holes then a slice of Swiss cheese. But as Charlotte's sleuthing starts to turn up the truth, the killer starts to turn up the heat...
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I did not take enough of my own books on the riverboat for our 2 weeks cruise from Passau to the Black Sea and return. So I was happy to have found this one on the book shelf. It was a pleasent read, a light cozy mystery.
Journal Entry 2 by 
Into-the-Blue
at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Niedersachsen Germany on Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Into-the-Blue at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Niedersachsen Germany on Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (8/22/2018 UTC) at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Niedersachsen Germany
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The book is now travelling to bluezwuzl. Enjoy!
Journal Entry 3 by bluezwuzl at Altdorf (Niederbayern), Bayern Germany on Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Das Buch ist gestern gut angekommen - vielen Dank für das Käseladenbuch! Ich liebe Käse und bin sehr gespannt...
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I love the Indigo Tea-Shop mysteries so I was looking forward to this book, with a cheese shop owner as a sleuth, hoping to pick up some bits of cheese-lore by the way. Sadly there was hardly more of that than (cheese) name-dropping.
It may be a pleasant enough holiday-read, but personally, I never read a book with a more "computer-generated- feeling" to it. A bunch of supposedly grown-up figures (you can hardly call them "characters", some of them representing nothing more than pure cliché) acting stupid and uttering silly thoughts, a setting which does not give the feeling of a real place, and a lot of wriggling, wagging and waving of fingers during conversations - that's not enough to make me want to read more of the series...
Everyone seems to think a cat essential to a cozy mystery - I wonder who came up with this "rule"? As for me - a cat (or any other animal) in a shop selling or serving eatables is a no-go, even in a not quite top cozy mystery!
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I love the Indigo Tea-Shop mysteries so I was looking forward to this book, with a cheese shop owner as a sleuth, hoping to pick up some bits of cheese-lore by the way. Sadly there was hardly more of that than (cheese) name-dropping.
It may be a pleasant enough holiday-read, but personally, I never read a book with a more "computer-generated- feeling" to it. A bunch of supposedly grown-up figures (you can hardly call them "characters", some of them representing nothing more than pure cliché) acting stupid and uttering silly thoughts, a setting which does not give the feeling of a real place, and a lot of wriggling, wagging and waving of fingers during conversations - that's not enough to make me want to read more of the series...
Everyone seems to think a cat essential to a cozy mystery - I wonder who came up with this "rule"? As for me - a cat (or any other animal) in a shop selling or serving eatables is a no-go, even in a not quite top cozy mystery!
