Hayley Snow's life always revolved around food. But when she applies to be a food critic for a Key West style magazine, she discovers that her new boss would be Kristen Faulkner-the woman Hayley caught in bed with her boyfriend! Hayley thinks things are as bad as they can get-until the police pull her in as a suspect in Kristen's murder. Kristen was killed by a poisoned key lime pie. Now Hayley must find out who used meringue to murder before she takes all the blame.
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By Kathryn Poulin
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An Appetite For Murder is the first in this new cozy series. The setting of Key West is what first grabbed my attention. I am planning on visiting there for the first time later this year when I attend a conference in Florida. Lucy Burdette is obviously intimately familiar with Key West as she provides an excellent description of it. I can feel the rhythm of the Keys in her words.
Hayley Snow is a wonderful new sleuth in this cozy mystery. She is a young woman whose life is without direction who follows a new boyfriend down to his home in Key West. Within a few months he has dropped her but luckily she does have friends from her past in Key West to help her out. She has applied for a job as a food critic at a new magazine, a storyline which continues throughout the book.
Hayley's ex-boyfriends's new girlfriend is murdered early on in the story. Of course Hayley is the main suspect and works hard to clear her name. It is a pleasant read with believable characters.
The end of the book which included a couple of recipes also had a preview of the next Hayley Snow mystery. Good new cozy series. Give it a try.
Hayley Snow is a wonderful new sleuth in this cozy mystery. She is a young woman whose life is without direction who follows a new boyfriend down to his home in Key West. Within a few months he has dropped her but luckily she does have friends from her past in Key West to help her out. She has applied for a job as a food critic at a new magazine, a storyline which continues throughout the book.
Hayley's ex-boyfriends's new girlfriend is murdered early on in the story. Of course Hayley is the main suspect and works hard to clear her name. It is a pleasant read with believable characters.
The end of the book which included a couple of recipes also had a preview of the next Hayley Snow mystery. Good new cozy series. Give it a try.
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A wonderful vacation
Jan 3 2012
By Mike Cooper
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Okay, I admit, I'm not much for cozies. But Lucy Burdette's plucky heroine drew me in: this book is a big happy plate of conch fritters on a perfect evening in the Keys, watching the sun set red and pink and purple over the soft ocean. Local flavor abounds, and not just the setting and characters. Hayley is a food critic, but not the snooty sort, which means she gets to eat all sorts of great meals in all sorts of local restaurants. Oh, there's a murder mystery, too, and when the police not only fail to make progress, but seem to turn their suspicions on Hayley herself -- well, she has to buckle down and start investigating. The plot speeds along, the company is great, the setting exactly where any reader would want to be this time of year.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific comic voice, wonderful Key West setting, and FOOD!
Jan 3 2012
By H. Touger
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
I read and LOVED this book! It so captures the nutty sweetness (food metaphor, of course) of Key West where a street performer actually herds cats, has a great comic voice, and tells a compelling mystery. I am so rooting for Hayley -- can't wait for book 2 in the series.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loves Food, Loves Cats, Bad Taste in Men
Jan 22 2012
By Patricia Kennedy
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have to admit that mysteries are not always my first choice of reading, but I couldn't resist picking this book up when I saw that the story takes place in Key West -- a favorite location for me -- and serves up all the great mix of foods and restaurants that would take anyone many meals to experience. But it was Hayley Snow's voice that kept me reading. And her plight. Poor kid, she's kind of ditzy and certainly follows her all-too-vulnerable heart (instead of her stomach which is what her mother would have advised her to do) when making life choices -- such as following Chad Lutz, a guy she barely knew, to the island paradise known as Key West. Thank goodness her best friend Eric was already there to pick up the pieces when things went awry. And, oh boy, did they! Quickly, Hayley is the police's POI for the murder of Kristen Faulkner -- the floozy who was in bed with Chad when Kristen came home unexpectedly. Of course, it had to be the Key Lime Pie as a murder weapon. It is Key West.
You'll know all along that it couldn't be Hayley. She's too sweet and naive to plot such a murder. But who? And how many restaurants do we get to visit before finding out?
This is a terrific read, so entertaining and delicious. You'll want to visit Key West soon and hope to meet Hayley as she scoots around town reviewing restaurants for Key Zest, the local newspaper.
Loved all the chapter intros about food. My favorites: " A hot dog or a truffle. God is good." James Beard "I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they are either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live." Frank Bruni
Lucy Burdette has dished out a hot dog/truffle/guacamole delight.
You'll know all along that it couldn't be Hayley. She's too sweet and naive to plot such a murder. But who? And how many restaurants do we get to visit before finding out?
This is a terrific read, so entertaining and delicious. You'll want to visit Key West soon and hope to meet Hayley as she scoots around town reviewing restaurants for Key Zest, the local newspaper.
Loved all the chapter intros about food. My favorites: " A hot dog or a truffle. God is good." James Beard "I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they are either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live." Frank Bruni
Lucy Burdette has dished out a hot dog/truffle/guacamole delight.
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