On What Grounds
by:
Cleo Coyle (author)
Rebecca Gibel (narrator)
Clare Cosi used to manage the historic Village Blend coffeehouse...until she opted for quieter pastures and a more suburban life. But after ten years and a little friendly cajoling from the owner (a fresh pot of Jamaican Blue Mountain was all it took), she's back to the grind. With a sprawling...
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Clare Cosi used to manage the historic Village Blend coffeehouse...until she opted for quieter pastures and a more suburban life. But after ten years and a little friendly cajoling from the owner (a fresh pot of Jamaican Blue Mountain was all it took), she's back to the grind. With a sprawling rent-free apartment directly above the Village Blend, her cat Java by her side, and plenty of coffeehouse redecorating ideas, Clare is thrilled to return to work. Until she discovers the assistant manager unconscious in the back of the store, coffee grounds strewn everywhere. Police arrive on the scene to investigate. But when they find no sign of forced entry or foul play, they deem it an accident. Case closed. But Clare is not convinced. And after the police leave, there are a few things she just can't get out of her mind... Why was the trash bin in the wrong place? If this wasn't an accident, is Clare in danger? And... are all detectives this handsome?
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B0056B1VWY
Publish date: 2011-06-09
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. & Buck 50 Productions, LLC
Minutes: 479
Edition language: English
Category:
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
New York,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Cozy Mystery,
Murder Mystery
Series: Coffeehouse Mystery (#1)
With coffee and crime brewing, you’ll love reading this with a mug of hot coffee beside you
After a full hour of listening to this audiobook, and we've gotten almost nowhere with the actual mystery. Almost all of this time has been spent on exposition. It has given me zero reason to continue soldiering on. Audiobook, borrowed from my public library. Rebecca Gibel gives a good performance...
Good storyline, good characters. Shame about the repetition of descriptions of people etc which felt she copied and pasted them from one chapter to the next.
For Clare coffee isn't just her profession, it's her life. Lured out of a self imposed exile to manage The Grind, Manhattan's premier café, she arrives one morning to discover the body of her assistant manager. The police are convinced it's an accident but things aren't adding up and Clare (with the...