Mac Almeida owns a bicycle shop on Cape Cod, and spends her off time either with her boyfriend, baker Tim, or her book club, the Cozy Capers Book Club. One day while she's at her parents' home relaxing, a woman comes through the hedge holding Mac's dad's puppy at arms' length and insists the puppy has been digging in her garden. After an unpleasant talk, she returns home. Later Mac finds that the new man in her friend Gin's life is the ex-son-in-law of the woman, Beverly Ruchart, and that Gin and Eli are going to a dinner party at his home.
But the next morning when Mac sets out for her daily walk with Gin, she finds her stooped over Beverly, who is very dead indeed. Now Gin is the main suspect in Beverly's murder, despite having barely met the woman, and Mac and her friends are determined to find the truth.
But she has more problems on her plate with Tim wanting to take their relationship to the next level, which is marriage, and she's not sure if she's ready. Fortunately -- or not -- the murder will be first and foremost, and this will have to wait. But if Mac waits too long on both fronts, she might just find herself in more trouble than she wants...
This is the second book in the series, and I have to say that I did like it better than the first. If I could find anything I didn't like, it's what most authors are doing nowadays; adding political agendas into their books. Personally, if I need a window fixed, I'm not going to hire a woman's company just because she's a woman. I'm going to hire the most capable company for the job. It doesn't matter to me who owns it; what matters is if they are going to do a good job.
Other than that, I did like the plot. It seems the murdered woman had more going for her than anyone thought, and she was more generous than expected, which made it difficult for Mac to weed out a killer. The clues were there, but you had to look for them (which I always enjoy doing anyway).
The descriptions of the surrounding area were definitely a plus and always good in a book; you can take yourself away to the area without having to leave your home, and Ms. Day is excellent at this. When the ending comes and the murderer is revealed, it really wasn't much of a surprise, but it was put together well, and left us with a teaser as to what the next book might have in store for us. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the next in the series. Recommended.
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When Mac Almeida is visiting her parents, who live just down the street in her town of Westham on Cape Cod, she encounters Beverly Ruchart, their neighbor. Beverly is always complaining about something, be it the local soup kitchen or Mac’s parents’ puppy. Two mornings later, Mac finds her friend Gin crouched over Beverly’s dead body. When the police begin to suspect that Gin had something to do with the death, the Mac and the rest of the Cozy Capers, a book group that reads nothing but cozy mysteries, jump into action to clear one of their own. But can Mac piece together the clues everyone is finding?I enjoyed the first in the series, so I was anxious to get back to visit Mac and her friends again. We do get a lot of characters, but the important characters stand out, and the rest are subtly reintroduced when they appear on the page again, so it is easy to track them. I have to give a special shout out to Mac pet, an African Gray parrot who gave me a couple good laughs. I did have a harder time tracking all the suspects early on, and especially their connections to each other. I suspect that might have been me being distracted by real life, and as I read, I was able to sort everything out. The plot gives us plenty of twists to keep us engaged. The ending was a little abrupt but logical. I enjoy the nods to other cozy series we get here, and as a bonus, we get five recipes at the end of this book for a variety of treats. Cozy lovers will enjoy solving a case along with a cast of characters who love cozies as much as they do.
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