One Feta in the Grave by Tina Kashian

Item: One Feta in the Grave
Rating: 5
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Posted March 4, 2019 by karenbaron in #BookishRecipe, #SummerReadsWithTheBaroness, Blog Tour, Mystery, Review, Series / 2 Comments

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One Feta in the Grave

by Tina Kashian

Series: Kebab Kitchen Mystery #3
Series Rating:

Published by Kensington Publishing Corporation on February 26, 2019
Genres: Mystery
Pages: 352
Format: Kindle
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Also in this series: Mistletoe, Moussaka, and Murder

As summer comes to an end in her Jersey Shore town, Lucy Berberian continues to manage her family's Mediterranean restaurant. The Kebab Kitchen also has a food tent at this year's beach festival. But now a local businessman is under the boardwalk--dead by the sea ... With a sand castle contest and live music, Ocean Crest bids a bittersweet farewell to tourist season. Summer will return next year ... but Archie Kincaid won't. The full-of-himself store owner has been fatally shot, soon after a screaming match with Lucy's best friend. Katie's far from the only suspect, though, since Archie had some bitter rivals--as well as some relationships no one knew about. It's up to Lucy to look into some seedy characters and solve the case before the wrong person gets skewered ...
Recipes included! "Clever and charming ... A culinary delight that will have readers salivating over the food and hungry for literary answers." --RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars, on Hummus and Homicide
"A series that will prove delightful for cozy fans."--Parkersburg News & Sentinel

Will the summer festival continue?

One Feta in the Grave by Tina Kashian is my first in the Kebab Kitchen Mystery series, and I have to say that it was pretty good. Ms. Kashian did a superb job, and I love the dynamics between the main character Lucy and her family.

Sleuth:

Our sleuth is Lucy Berberian who is a first-generation American within her family that is multilingual. I fell in love with how different this sleuth is and is set in Jersey made me smile. Lucy is known in her small coastal town in Jersey for solving mysteries so when she finds Mr. Kincaid everyone automatically thinks she is on the case in solving it. Which she is.

What I like about her is that she is my first sleuth that is a lawyer but is trying to make her parents happy by working in the restaurant. I like that she cares for her family even if everyone knows that she isn’t the most fabulous cook. The way that she has two love interests that aren’t cops because the cop is her best friend’s husband. The last thing that I like about her is that she is pretty great at sleuthing. The one thing that I didn’t like about her is that she didn’t get why one of her love interests was jealous of the other who is just a friend.

The Victim:

The victim is Archie Kincaid but to call him a victim is a big step. The reason is he was a total jerk to everyone. He lived like he was a bachelor when that was far from the truth and that he spurned a whole lot of people. Okay, so the only one that he did let known was a guy named Harold. Anyways let’s just say Lucy and the cops had a lot of fun trying to sort through all the red herrings to get to the real killer. Especially through everything else that was brought to light.

Five Star

One Feta in the Grave by Tina Kashian is a great cozy mystery read, and I enjoyed it especially trying to figure out who killed Archie and what their motives where. I am giving this book a five-star review, and I am recommending it to all cozy mystery fans.

There are recipes in the back. They are called Lucy’s Date-Stuffed Cookies, Azad’s Lentil Soup, and Butch’s Greek Salad with Feta Cheese.

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About Tina Kashian

Tina Kashian spent her childhood summers at the New Jersey shore, building sand castles, boogie boarding, and riding the boardwalk Ferris wheel. She also grew up in the restaurant business where her Armenian parents owned a restaurant for thirty years. She worked almost every job—rolling silverware and wiping down tables as a tween, to hosting and waitressing as a teenager.

After college, Tina worked as a NJ Deputy Attorney General, a patent attorney, and a mechanical engineer. Her law cases inspired an inquiring mind of crime, and since then, Tina has been hooked on mysteries. The Kebab Kitchen Cozy Mystery series launches with Hummus and Homicide, followed by Stabbed in the Baklava and One Feta in the Grave by Kensington Books. Tina still lives in New Jersey with her supportive husband and two young daughters. Please visit www.tinakashian.com and join her Newsletter to enter free contests to win books, get delicious recipes, and to learn when her books will be released.