★★★★
GENRE: Cozy Mystery
SUBJECT: newspaper rivalries
CHARACTERS: Hayley Powell, Karen Applebaum, Lex Bansfield, Sal Moretti
DATE READ: February 18 - February 20
NO. OF PAGES: 304
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?: Yes, Nook stockpile
PLOT:...............................................................4.50
CHARACTERIZATION:..................................4.00
TOPICS:...........................................................4.00
STYLE:.............................................................4.00
ORIGINALITY:..................................................3.50
ADDICTIVENESS:.........................................3.50
OWNERSHIP:.................................................4.00
THRESHOLD QUALITY:................................4.00
Average.........................................................................................3.94
How many times have we, in real life, been put in a position where we are competing with another person and it is someone that we really don't like? Well, that's what happens here. Haley Powell, to make a few extra dollars agrees to write the food and recipe column at the newspaper where she works. Her former friend, Karen Applebaum, writes a similar column for the competing newspaper. So of course, they are at each other's throats especially when Karen steals Hayley's clam chowder recipe. Who else would the police think killed Karen with poisoned clam chowder but Hayley.
This was a fun little cozy mystery with LOL scenes like food fights, unique police interrogations, great characters, and yummy recipes including alcoholic beverages!
I look forward to the next one.
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