A Treasure to Die For by Terry Ambrose

Item: A Treasure to Die For
Rating: 5
Author: karenbaron

Posted September 5, 2023 by karenbaron in Mystery, Review / 0 Comments

A Treasure to Die For

by Terry Ambrose

Series: Seaside Cove Bed and Breakfast Mystery #1
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Published by Terry Ambrose on September 21, 2017
Setting: California
Genres: Cozy Mystery
Pages: 229
Format: Kindle, Paperback
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Also in this series: Secrets of the Treasure King, Treasure Most Deadly, Lies, Spies, and the Baker's Surprise, Dead Men Need No Reservations, Clues in the Sand, The Secret Ingredient to Murder

Bandit gold and sunken pirate ships. What could be better for the reputation of a quaint coastal California town like Seaside Cove?

Local eyebrows go up when eight friends come searching for a 16th Century Spanish galleon. After all, everybody knows there’s no such thing as Spanish gold off this part of the California coast.

The group’s visit turns ugly when a killer strikes and leaves Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast owner Rick Atwood with a trunkful of questions. Who murdered one of his guests? Will his precocious ten-year-old daughter stop interfering in his investigation? And can he squelch the latest town gossip? Which is, of course, can Rick and his daughter do what the cops can’t and solve the crime?

A Treasure to Die For by Terry Ambrose has Rick Atwood trying to shelter Alex from investigating a mysterious death at their bed and breakfast.

Will Rick save the reputation of his bed and breakfast? Can he keep Alex from investigating?

Rick and Alex Atwood

Rick Atwood is a young father trying to make the bed and breakfast work while raising his ten-year-old daughter. He inherited the bed and breakfast from his grandfather and changed coasts. He changes coasts to give Alex a slower life style than the always busy New York life. Rick has been running the bed and breakfast for a while now when his latest guests show up, and he isn’t too sure about them. Granted, I wouldn’t be either, as these people are snobs. The change probably was also so Alex wouldn’t grow up around him being a crime reporter anymore as well. I have to say that I love to see Rick not wanting to investigate but still ends up helping when he sees that the deputy needs help. I like Rick as he wants what is best for his only child, and he wants Alex to live a life without being near crimes, unlike his crime reporter job that he retired from back in New York.

Alex Atwood is ten years old and loves life on the Pacific coast. She is trying not to upset her dad, except she loves problem solving and figures her dad needs help with solving the mystery. I love Alex here since she isn’t quite the character I know yet, and I can see the building blocks that Mr. Ambrose has started, even from the beginning of how he wanted Alex to be.

The Mystery

Eight friends show up at the bed and breakfast to try to find the San Manuel ship that supposedly ran aground somewhere off the coast of Seaside Cove. All seven “friends” disliked the victim, and as things started to unravel once he was gone, I fell for every red herring. I dismissed the actual killer because he wasn’t that involved in the mystery like the others. Well played, Mr. Ambrose!

Five Stars

A Treasure to Die For by Terry Ambrose is the start of a beautiful series that helped shape the characters into how they are in the books I started with in this series. I love how innocent Alex seems while also wanting to help her dad with investigating despite the dangers it could lead to. I also like to see how the Atwoods act around Marquetta before anything unfolds for them. Mr. Ambrose did a great job on this book.

I am giving A Treasure to Die For by Terry Ambrose five stars, and I highly recommend it.

The Series

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of A Treasure to Die For by Terry Ambrose.

Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

About Terry Ambrose

Terry Ambrose has written and published fourteen mysteries. His Seaside Cove Mystery series new releases have risen to the Amazon genre Top 100. In 2014, Con Game, Terry’s second thriller in the License to Lie series received the San Diego Book Awards Best Mystery/Thriller award. Terry also writes the McKenna Trouble in Paradise mysteries and organized an anthology written by bestselling mystery writers to benefit a literacy nonprofit in Hawaii.

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