Rate this book

Brewed, Crude And Tattooed (2009)

by Sandra Balzo(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0727867350 (ISBN13: 9780727867353)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Severn House Publishers

series

Maggy Thorsen Mystery

review 1: This was a great book. It had murders, snow storms of the century, falling roofs, survivors, characters, an hundred-pound English Sheepdog, and snappy dialog that just carried the day.Ms. Balzo has a way with writing that makes you feel she is sharing a cup of coffee and chatting with you. Her timing is excellent and the humor fun.I love how the series is changing direction.Now off to "From the Grounds Up."
review 2: In this great fourth Maggy Thorsen 'coffee house' mystery, an unexpected spring snowstorm leaves Maggy and several other tenants from the strip mall where her coffee shop Uncommon Grounds is located totally stranded and cut off from the outside world. So when the owner of the mall, Way Benson, is found stabbed in the back and his head mutilated by ... morea snowblower, the suspect list is pretty small, since the opportunity for an outsider to have done it is minimal. Maggy, who's already seen her share of dead bodies, starts asking questions, trying to think like her boyfriend, Sheriff Jake Pavlik, who is nowhere around. Just about everyone who knew Way had good reason to hate the man, but trying to find someone who had not only motive but means and opportunity as well isn't going to be easy. And things get even more complicated when Way's ex-wife is also killed. I am really enjoying this series a lot. It's cozy, but an edgy, funky kind of cozy where 'adult themes' and the occasional four-letter word aren't swept under the rug. Maggy has a wicked sense of humor and I find myself liking her very much--she's sort of a fish out of water, since the suburb she lives in is a gossipy, high-class enclave and Maggy is struggling to make ends meet and isn't so worried about what the Joneses think of her. I think I especially liked this entry in the series because the boyfriend wasn't around so the romancey bits which I often find annoying weren't there at all in this one. I have to admit that the little bit of 'love interest' in this series isn't ever intrusive though, and it doesn't take over the whole story line, so kudos to the author for that, too! A mystery that's actually a mystery instead of a romance in disguise! Imagine that! A. less

Download links for: Brewed, Crude and Tattooed

Advertising