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Beach Blanket Homicide
by Maria Geraci
Series: Whispering Bay Mystery #1
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Published by Chihuahua Publishing on December 7, 2018
Genres: Mystery
Pages: 270
Format: Kindle
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A fun, quirky chick-lit mystery starring Lucy McGuffin, world's best muffin maker, and amateur sleuth.
Everyone agrees that Lucy McGuffin bakes the muffins in Whispering Bay, but she's got another talent, one that she's tried her whole life to hide. Lucy can always tell when a person is lying or telling the truth. Being a human lie detector isn't all it's cracked up to be. Especially when you really don't want the answer to the universal question, "Does this dress make my butt look too big?"
When Lucy is hired to cater the grand opening celebration of the city's new community center, she stumbles across the dead body of Abby Delgado, a prominent member of the Sunshine Ghost Society. Lucy's brother, Father Sebastian, a local priest, is the last person to have seen Abby alive. Convinced he'll be breaking a confidence, Sebastian refuses to cooperate with the police, forcing Lucy to put her skills to the test to save her brother's good name.
Enter the town's new hotshot deputy, Travis Fontaine. Travis doesn't want an amateur like Lucy snooping around his turf, so he offers her a deal. He'll stay out of her kitchen if she stays away from his crime scenes. But Lucy isn't about to let her brother's fate rest in the hands of an arrogant cop.
Good thing she has her best friend, Will, and her new rescue dog, Paco, to back her up, because it's up to Lucy to figure out what everyone in the quaint little beachside town is hiding.
Can Lucy with the help of Paco figure out what happened to Abby?
Beach Blanket Homicide by Maria Geraci is a wonderful cozy and one that I fell in love with from the start. Lucy McGuffin is a great character and a real hoot. So much about this book is good. I especially liked the killer as I thought it was a completely different person.
What I like:
- Written in the first-person with Lucy McGuffin, our sleuth, being the narrator. I enjoy getting inside Lucy’s head and seeing how she figures things out.
- I like that the main character bakes muffins and is trying to enter a competition on tv.
- Lucy loves animals despite being allergic to their fur and is trying to find a way to keep Paco.
- The way that she uncovers the clues are cool.
- Lucy puts the past behind her and Brittany for Will. Will is her best friend and crush and is a friend of her brother’s.
What I don’t like:
I liked the book a lot that I don’t think that I have a dislike for it. Though I thought that I knew who did it, I was lead astray by a red herring.
Five Star
Beach Blanket Homicide by Maria Geraci has a marvelous mystery, and this book starts off a fabulous new series. Lucy, Paco, Will, Sebastian, Brittany, and Sarah are the greatest characters ever. I can’t wait to see what will happen with these six characters within this series. I am giving it a five-star rating and recommending it to anyone that likes cozy mysteries.
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About Maria Geraci
Maria Geraci writes quirky, fun, romantic women’s fiction and cozy mysteries. She’s a two-time RITA® Finalist, as well as a finalist in the National Readers’ Choice Awards and Romantic Times’ American Title Contest. She lives in central Florida and is always on the lookout for the perfect key lime pie recipe (but not the kind they served on Dexter).
Photo Credit: Chris Kridler of ChrisKridler.com
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2019 Cloak and Dagger
- 2019 Craving For Cozies Reading Challenge
- 2019 Cruisin' Thru The Cozies Reading Challenge
- 2019 Goodreads Reading Challenge
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Love the cover! Can’t wait to read this book which is on my TBR list.
I’m so glad you enjoyed the book! Thank you for the lovely review ?
Great review! I loved this book, too! It was so much fun and made me laugh out loud. The characters are my kind of people. Loved it!