Product Description

When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it's a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66529 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 288 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780425216385
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Review
#1 Paperback Bestseller -- Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, July 2007

Coyle displays a deep understanding of coffee [and] coffee shop culture. If you haven't yet discovered the series, you should. -- Eric S. Chen, Baristo.net

Great characters, smooth plotting, and top-notch writing, it's no wonder these books are bestsellers. -- Cozy Library

Customer Reviews

A Cuppa Joe and a good read
Cleo Coyle has once again delighted us with a fast-paced mystery using the Village Blend coffee house as the center of activity. Her charcters, including bumbling ex hubby, Matt, and her delightful octogenarian former mother-in-law as well as her wanna be future love interest, Mike Quinn,are fascinating and funny and interesting.

Sometimes, Coyle gives us more information than we would ever want to know about growing coffee beans, properly processing coffee beans and the art of serving java. But it is easy to get past those moments simply because of the story line. She never stalls or gets bogged down, and instead keeps the reader glued because of the pace.

Finding yourself with a quiet Saturday afternoon or wanting a quick read during mobility, this is the one. You will not be disappointed.

The coffee gets better and better...
I own all of the coffeehouse mysteries and this one did not disappoint. Cleo Coyle has created believable characters and added coffee trivia to boot. I love that no matter how minor a role the character has, Coyle always seems to give a great deal of thought and detail to this person, even if they are only in the book for a minute number of pages.

I have noticed that the plots improve with every novel, as do the recipes. Coyle's whodunits are not so obvious as some other mystery writers and she often keeps me guessing right until the end.

I agree with another reviewer who said that she provides her readers with coffee tidbits and trivia, but she does not get bogged down and I never feel like the book stalls at these times. She never uses a term that might not be familiar to all without explaining it (Rita Mae Brown did this in her last novel) and her dialogue is funny, witty and easy to read.

Favorite Return
In Cleo Coyle's latest outing at the Village Blend all our favorite characters are back and up to the same coffee hijinks. This time around Clare is up to her elbows in decaf coffee. As if she didnt dislike it enough already this time around it could bring down everything she has worked so hard to get back. So the murders start piling up and everyone is a possible suspect. Its up to her to save the day and regain some order in her caffeinated life.

If you like her other offerings you will definitely like this one. There is even more character developement and new ones thrown into the mix. Its another fun outing with Claire and the entire Village Blend gang. Also another quick read that will want you having more and more, just like the addicting caffine...