Do Or Diner
When Trixie Matkowski agrees to take over her aunt’s diner, she pictures lakeside views and delicious comfort food in the small town where she spent summers as a child. But the sweet scene turns sour when someone puts murder on the menu
... Trixie is in need of a fresh start away from her...
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When Trixie Matkowski agrees to take over her aunt’s diner, she pictures lakeside views and delicious comfort food in the small town where she spent summers as a child. But the sweet scene turns sour when someone puts murder on the menu
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Trixie is in need of a fresh start away from her cheating ex-husband, but she may be biting off more than she can chew when she moves to upstate New York to run her family’s famed Silver Bullet Diner. Not only is she caught off guard by the small town’s resident heartthrob, Deputy Ty Brisco, but her first health inspection turns into a nightmare
when the inspector keels over in his Blue Plate Special.
It seems someone made a deadly addition to an old family recipe, and Trixie is determined to find out whodunit. But between serving up orders and sniffing out clues, she’d better watch her backor her next meal might be her last.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451415080 (0451415086)
Publish date: 2013-08-06
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Comfort Food Mystery (#1)
More a 2.5 star read for me. The main character was a very nice, good-hearted person, but a lousy sleuth. There were too many things that were just not believable to me, especially the visit she paid to one of the people she suspected. Loved the cowboy cop, but on the whole this just didn't do it...
A majority of this book was interesting and then all of a sudden the last ten pages were rushed and hokey. Review to be posted.
An ok first book that has quite a few things going for it, and a few things that, well, need work. Excellent setting: small town, up-state New York on the lake. Trixie buys not only a diner, but a house, 12 cottages, and a bait shop from her aunt. Talk about lots of options for murder and mayhem g...