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Loading... Fruit Baskets and Holiday Caskets (Down South Café Mystery, #5) (edition 2020)by Gayle Leeson
Work InformationFruit Baskets and Holiday Caskets: A Down South Cafe Mystery (A Down South Cafe Mystery Book) by Gayle Leeson None No current Talk conversations about this book.  bookofsecrets | Dec 12, 2022 |    ) nlb1050 | Dec 18, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
Christmas comes with chaos--and a murder--in the fifth book in the Down South Café cozy mystery series! Amy Flowers thinks her biggest problem is going to be creating an enormous cake dummy to mount atop her car for Winter Garden's upcoming Christmas parade. But when one of Roger's employees is murdered, making the float is the least of Amy's worries. Her childhood friend is a prime suspect, Aunt Bess is making a new Pinterest board: Things That'll Probably Kill Me, and her boyfriend's mother is insisting on helping Amy make three-hundred-seventy-five sugar cookies to hand out along the parade route. When Amy starts trying to clear Roger of the murder, she unexpectedly finds herself involved in international intrigue. How will our favorite café owner outwit sophisticated criminals who want to deck the halls with her head? No library descriptions found. |
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It was fun to revisit the Down South Café at Christmastime. I'd read the first couple of books in the series a few years ago, and it's good to see the gang still as charming and quirky as ever.
This time around, café owner Amy Flowers is trying to clear a friend's name who's suspected of murdering an employee. She's also busy creating an enormous cake float and hundreds of cookies for the town's Christmas parade.
While I thought Amy was clever with her investigation, I thought the mystery itself was just ok. I think it's because a lot of it was telling and not showing, and the ending felt abrupt. However, the whole scene at the end of catching the killer was pretty cute!
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