★★★½
GENRE: Cozy Mystery
SUBJECT: life's transitions, family ties, jealousies
Setting: Crystal Cove, CA
CHARACTERS: Jenna Hart, Vera Hart, Cinnamon Pritchett, Katie Casey, Pepper Prichett, Desireé Devine, Sabrina Devine, Mackenzie Baxter, Rhett Jackson
DATE READ: February 24 - February 25
NO. OF PAGES: 276
Challenges: 75, Category, TIOLI, MysteryCAT
SOURCE: Nook
PLOT:....................................................................3.50
CHARACTERIZATION:.......................................3.50
TOPICS: ...............................................................4.00
STYLE:..................................................................4.00
ORIGINALITY:.......................................................3.50
ADDICTIVENESS:..............................................3.50
OWNERSHIP:......................................................3.50
Threshold Quality.................................................3.50
Average..............................................................................................3.63
Jenna Hart, a young widow, decides to give up her stressful advertising job and return to her childhood home in Crystal Cove and partner with her aunt in a new Cookbook/Café venture. Barely has she gotten the place ready, invited her friend, a TV chef, for the opening, and all hell breaks loose when she discovers her friend on the beach dead and disguised as a mermaid sandcastle. It doesn't help that several items nearby point directly to Jenna.
Certain hat she is about to be arrested at any moment, Jenna sets out to find her friend's killer.
The story was cleverly woven to reintroduce Jenna to her hometown while moving the story along. I'm ready for the next one!
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