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Book Review of A Brisket, a Casket (Deadly Deli, Bk 1)

A Brisket, a Casket (Deadly Deli, Bk 1)
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Helpful Score: 3


1st in series

After her uncle died, newly divorced New Yorker Gwen Katz-Silver aka Nash, inherits her deceased uncles' Jewish Deli. Things start to go south for the deli when a long time customer Buster Sergeant bites the big one on stage during karaoke night. After Gwen is attacked and shoved into her walk in refigerator, business starts to come to a crawl. Enter in slimey real estate developer, Royce Sinclair and his creepy atterney, Carl Liarson, trying to buy out Gwens deli. Gwen decides to start uncovering her uncles' past to figure out how to save the deli, and herself.

While I enjoyed this book, there wasnt much character development at all. The dialect was merely tolerable. To top it off, there wasnt any actual sleuthing involved. And yet, the story grew on me and was well resolved in only 230 short pages.

I will definitely continue this series, in hopes the next one will be better.