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Expresso Shot (2000)

by Cleo Coyle(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Romance

series

Coffeehouse Mystery

review 1: I started this series about 8 years ago and stopped keeping up with it at this book. SO I thought what the heck I am going to pick this up and give it another go. While I didn't dislike the book I think my issue is Claire. I am just not in love with her. I don't feel any connection with her. I am not sure if its her constant meddling, or the way that every one fawns all over her for large parts of the book. I guess I just want a little more realism from characters. A little more struggle. I guess I also find it completely un believable that the NYPD would ever let a barrista help or seek her advise and that she could put it all together when no less then 4 cops cant seem to figure out what is happening. I am able to suspend my belief in most cozies because they take place ... morein small towns with a very small limited police force. But this is the NYPD. I know for a fact that can handle there business. But the book was good. I enjoyed the plot. I just think this is going to be it for me.
review 2: Another installment in the Coffeehouse Mysteries, in which Clare Cosi has to figure out who is trying to kill her ex-husband's fiance only a couple of days before the wedding. And as the person who is providing the coffee and specialty beverages for the reception, along with her friend who has started a pastry bakery, Clare has plenty to do without having to investigate anything.This was the usual fun, light read that these books usually are. With one exception. And that is, that the person who was killed at the beginning of the book because she was mistaken for the bride-to-be, is supposedly from Wheeling, West Virginia. Clare suspects this when she first talks to the girl, because of her "twang." I spent the bulk of my life in Wheeling, and still have family and friends who live there. The only time I ever met anyone with a "twang" at all was when I met someone from someplace else. If people have a speech pattern at all there, it's closer to the way people in Pittsburgh speak than any other "accent."This may seem like a small detail to most readers, but having spent my whole life explaining that a) I am not from the South, and b) why I don't have a Southern accent, means that I am especially sensitive to this kind of thing.Having said all of that, as I said, this is - like the others in this series - entertaining enough, and especially good to read when you are in the mood for a book that doesn't have to be, or claims to be, great literature. less

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