A Hayley Powell Food And Cocktails Mystery (4 books in series)

Death of a Chocoholic (2014)
language
English
author
3.84 of 5 Votes: 4
review 1: Sweet Jesus, this one was NOT my style. I love a good cozy mystery (a la Laura Childs, etc), but this was extremely formulaic. Too many characters introduced in a short period of time. Jerky sentences that were either missing punctuation or coherent thought. I couldn't decide. If...
Death of a Country Fried Redneck (2012)
language
English
author
3.68 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: This time the main character Hayley, acts like a total flake over a country music star who comes to town. Plus she gets into another physical fight with his ex wife (like she did in #1). It's very adolescent and I'm not liking it (about halfway through).Now I've finished it. ...
Death of a Kitchen Diva (2012)
language
English
author
3.54 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: A typical cosy mystery, which has a lot of potential but doesn't really live up to it. The protagonist is the stereotypical ditzy thirtysomething who stumbles into ridiculous situations. It felt at times that the writer was trying too hard to emulate better writers in this genre ...
Death of a Coupon Clipper (2013)
language
English
author
3.86 of 5 Votes: 3
review 1: These books are so ridiculously similar to the Lucy Stone series(by the same publisher, which I find strange). I found that off putting and a little too weird at first, but the books are entertaining and hard to put down so now I just don't care. I like the Bar Harbor setting, b...