Genre: Cozy Mystery
Sophie Winston is a domestic diva! Her family expects the perfect Thanksgiving dinner from her and she aims to please.
During her Thanksgiving shopping, she meets up with a man trying to give her a homeless cat. She turns down the offer, but soon feels bad. After she’s finished shopping, she tries to find the man with the cat, but instead finds the man’s dead body. She takes the cat, but is shocked to learn that the police found her picture in the man’s car. Suddenly she finds herself as the number one suspect of a murdered man she didn’t even know.
Sophie tries to put this incident aside so she can create a happy festive holiday for her family, but somehow she ends up with more guests for dinner than she anticipated including her ex-husband Mars and his fiancée, Natasha. Natasha is Sophie’s main competition in the annual Stupendous Stuffing Shakedown contest, as well as both women having domestic advice columns.
Several contestants find themselves the victim of having their ingredients tampered with and when Sophie finds the sponsor of the contest dead, all eyes turn toward her as the lead suspect in two murders. With a little help from her family and friends, Sophie sets out to prove her innocence. It’s just a shame the sexy detective in charge of the investigation also thinks she’s a murderer.
This is the first book in a brand new cozy mystery series, “A Domestic Diva Mystery”. I could not put this book down. The story has a wonderful array of characters. Each one has their own special qualities that come alive throughout this book. I practically devoured this one. I can’t say enough good things and I loved every minute of reading this one.
Krista Davis is a “new-to-me” author that I’ll be watching out for. I already have the second book in this series and the third comes out in February 2010. If they are anything like the first one, I have quite a bit of great reading ahead.
I can’t help but give this my Socrates’ Great Book Alert medal.
For reading challenges:
Amateur Sleuth Reading Challenge
Mysteryreadercafe Reading Challenge
How lovely! A Thankgiving book for Thanksgiving. It sounds brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI am always very interested in those you give your award :D
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like and fun read for next Thanksgiving. I'd try it this year but I already have 3 books going as it is!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds adorable- great review! I hope you enjoy the rest of the series! :-)
ReplyDeleteLovely cover; perfect read for this time of year. thanks for the post.
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