Review: Italian Iced by Kylie Logan (Blog Tour)

Genre:
Cozy Mystery

Format:
E-ARC

Publisher:
Berkley

Release Date:
July 3, 2018







Synopsis from Goodreads:

Hot pasta and a cold corpse make for quite a combination in the latest book in the Ethnic Eats mystery series.

When Laurel Inwood features Italian cuisine on the Terminal at the Tracks menu, she knows she'll need to stock the shelves, the fridge, and the freezer with plenty of wonderful delicacies. She just never expected one of them to be her old boss, Hollywood superstar Meghan Cohan.

But one day when Laurel is at the restaurant early to get ready for the regular rush of customers, that's exactly what she finds--Meghan dead in the Terminal freezer.

What's a Hollywood A-lister doing in Hubbard, Ohio?

For Laurel, that's the real question, because the first question she'd ask in any other murder investigation--who would want the victim dead?--seems pretty much a no-brainer in this case.

Who would want Meghan dead?

Just about anybody who had ever met her.

My Review

It’s Italian food month at Terminal at the Tracks. Laurel Inwood is busy getting the restaurant ready to feed their customers delicious Italian food. She’ll make sure they have plenty of pasta and pizza ready. Imagine her shock when she discovers her old boss, Meghan Cohan, dead in the freezer.

Meghan is a mega Hollywood star who unceremoniously fired Laurel not long ago. Laurel can’t figure out what Meghan had been doing in the Ohio restaurant in the first place. She should have been in California being a superstar.

It goes without saying that Laurel had many reasons to be angry with Meghan, starting with being fired from her job. However, Laurel had put all that behind her in favor of her new career at Terminal at the Tracks. Still, it doesn’t look good for Laurel that Meghan had been murdered right under her nose. So, Laurel begins an investigation of her own.  She quickly discovers she wasn’t the only one with an ax to grind against Meghan.

This is the third book of the Ethnic Eats series. I read the previous one and still need to read the first, but I already fell in love with this series. I adore everything about it from the clever setting to the characters to the plot. Kylie Logan does an excellent job of drawing the reader in and making them feel as if they are right there with Laurel trying to figure out whodunit.

It’s fast-paced with well-developed characters. I’m already anxiously awaiting for my next visit to Hubbard, Ohio. I, also, plan to read this author’s other cozy mystery series. They all look good.



For reading challenges:
Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge 2018
Literary Escapes Reading Challenge 2018 (Ohio)
Cruisin’ thru the Cozies Reading Challenge 2018

FTC Disclosure: I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are my own.

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