S'more Murders (Five-Ingredient Mystery, Bk 5)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Author:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
S'More Murders is the fifth installment in the A Five-Ingredient Mystery series featuring Cool Down Cafe owner, Val Deniston and set in the Chesapeake Bay town of Bayport. The house she shares with her grandfather, Don, has some serious termite damage and the repairs will be costly, so when Val is approached by the wealthy Otto Warbeck to cater a dinner aboard his yacht she can hardly turn down the additional income.
Otto is an avid collector of Titanic memorabilia, and he wants to host a ten course dinner party for eight people on the eve of the historic sinking of the massive ocean liner. Val, Don and her best friend Bethany climb aboard the luxurius, Abyss and begin the dinner preparations. An eclectic bunch, the guests include Otto's much younger wife Cheyenne, his ex wife Stacy Turnstone and step son Trey, Louisa and Damian Brown, lobbyists for the poultry industry and Homer Huxby a local antiques dealer.
Otto decides that the guests will play a mystery game during dinner that will revolve around the death of a Titanic passenger. One of the dinner guests will be the murder according to the pre-written scripts that Otto passes out to each person. Things take an even stranger turn when suddenly the yacht is caught up in a violent storm, the boat's captain is discovered drugged on the bridge and Otto has gone missing.
Despite warnings from her boyfriend Gunnar and Chief Earl Yardley to stay out of the investigation, Val can't help but find herself caught up in the hunt for a killer. With Bethany by her side, Val soon discovers that each of the dinner guests had a secret they'd prefer to keep hidden and Otto knew them all.
A fast moving plot somewhat similar to the famous And Then There Were None. With only a handful of possible suspects that were aboard the yacht when Otto went missing, the character pool is limited. I really do not like one of the main characters of this series and am hoping that with this addition this will be the last we see of them.
Otto is an avid collector of Titanic memorabilia, and he wants to host a ten course dinner party for eight people on the eve of the historic sinking of the massive ocean liner. Val, Don and her best friend Bethany climb aboard the luxurius, Abyss and begin the dinner preparations. An eclectic bunch, the guests include Otto's much younger wife Cheyenne, his ex wife Stacy Turnstone and step son Trey, Louisa and Damian Brown, lobbyists for the poultry industry and Homer Huxby a local antiques dealer.
Otto decides that the guests will play a mystery game during dinner that will revolve around the death of a Titanic passenger. One of the dinner guests will be the murder according to the pre-written scripts that Otto passes out to each person. Things take an even stranger turn when suddenly the yacht is caught up in a violent storm, the boat's captain is discovered drugged on the bridge and Otto has gone missing.
Despite warnings from her boyfriend Gunnar and Chief Earl Yardley to stay out of the investigation, Val can't help but find herself caught up in the hunt for a killer. With Bethany by her side, Val soon discovers that each of the dinner guests had a secret they'd prefer to keep hidden and Otto knew them all.
A fast moving plot somewhat similar to the famous And Then There Were None. With only a handful of possible suspects that were aboard the yacht when Otto went missing, the character pool is limited. I really do not like one of the main characters of this series and am hoping that with this addition this will be the last we see of them.
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