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Coconut Drop Dead: 02/08/24
Coconut Drop Dead by Olivia Matthews and Janina Edwards (Narrator) (2023) is the third book in the Spice Isles Bakery mystery series. Lyndsay Murray and her family are taking their food truck to the annual Caribbean American Heritage Festival. They've attended for years, but this is their first time as vendors. In the backdrop of this book is a charity CD by the locally popular group, Dragonflies. To make things even more sweet, the lead singer is dating Lyndsay's cousin. That is until she's murdered during the festival. Despite her death, sales of the charity CD continue. In the cozy genre there are four kinds of murder victims. First there's the character who is so reprehensible that multiple people want him dead — and in some cases they conspire to commit the perfect murder. Next there is the bully who has a beef with the person who will be accused once the bully is murdered. Then there's the complete stranger: someone new to the town who ends up murdered. Finally, there's someone like Camille, the victim in this book, someone too sweet to die but is murdered anyway. The way Camille is set up I really expected her to be the one Lyndsay would end up helping. She's an honest, creative, loving individual. She's beloved by the community. If she were in a Kate Carlisle book she would have survived and the murderer would be dead instead. I don't normally grieve for the the murder victim in the mysteries I read, but I did for Camille. Five stars Comments (0) |