Search - Eggs Benedict Arnold (Cackleberry Club, Bk 2)

Loved this one as much as the first one. Great characters and good mystery. Hope all the characters continue to develop.

When Cackleberry Clubber Suzanne delivers a pie to funeral director Ozzie Driesden, she discovers him not working at the embalming table but lying on the embalming table. She barely has time to recognize his corpse before she's drugged with chloroform. With more suspects than breakfast specials, the Cackleberry Club scrambles to crack the case before one of their own ends up six feet under.

Book #2 of the Cackleberry Club. I love "cozy" mysteries and this is no exception. I really like the characters and they are fun to read about. And having some recipes is not bad too.

I have enjoyed some of Laura Childs' other cozy mystery series, but I have to say, I was underwhelmed by this one - the first book in the series left me disappointed and I hoped the second would round out the characters, setting, and relationships more. If anything, the people and events were more cardboard than before and the motivation of the characters remains a mystery. Sadly, the book was a struggle to read and almost farcical in its use of trite cliches. I finished the book with an inordinate sense of irritation and the (recurring, even days after completion) desire to shake some sense into the whole cast of characters.