Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop by Darci HannahMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is how you do a cozy murder mystery!!
Lindsey Bakewell left NYC after she caught her ex-fiancee with another woman, and she decides to follow her dream: she wants to open a bakery and sell a whole bunch of baked goodies. When she brought a lighthouse and opened up a bakery. While she was doing that, a woman named Fiona started making a rukus all over the place, threatening to shut her bakery down before she could even sell one delicious doughnut. But thanks to her real-estate agent, Betty, along with her staff and a very hot writer next-door neighbor, the Beacon Bakeshop is ready to open!
With her bestie Kennedy Kapoor, the shop was doing well...until Lindsey's ex, Jeffery, and his girlfriend Mia Long came in and started to run everything...until Mia started to choke and had to go to the hospital, thus making the Beacon Bakeshop a crime scene, because, well...Mia died.
Which was very odd, because all Mia did was pretend that the baked goods were so bad to the point that she started to pretend to choke on them.
Lindsay was devastated that her Bakeshop had to close, but at the same time, she wondered why the heck Mia and lazy-arse Jeffery Plank would come to Beacon to destroy the opening of her shop? She wondered and puzzled, to the point that she decided to investigate. From cyanide poisonings to finding out that someone pretended to be Lindsay to try and kill Betty, something wasn't adding up. Also, there was a certain ghost named Captain Willy Riggs trying to help her too....
When it turns out to be her baker, Dylan, who was smuggling drugs from her bakery to the cartels, that's when things got nearly ugly, when Lindsay and Dylan (whom I loved so much to the end) started to fight after Lindsay told her New Fowland, Wellington, to go get Rory Campbell (she also suspected him after he told her of his knowledge about cyanide, but she forgave him). Once the scuffle was over and Rory and the cops placed her under arrest, everything was just fine.
Lindsay had another Opening 2.0; she and Rory, and Kennedy are on good terms, and Lindsay's parents are helping around at the Bakeshop now. Everything is perfect, and Betty and everyone else are very happy that the bakeshop is open again.
This book was so good that I would read the next book in the series. I loved how Lindsay tried to solve the murder, even looking into the murder of Captain Willy Riggs. Wellington was such a good dog, and I hope there is a romance blooming between Lindsay and Rory. I also hope that we see more of Kennedy, because she is the bestest bestie I've ever seen in a book. Love, love, loved this book so much.
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