The Key Lime Crime
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The tenth Key West Food Critic cozy mystery is piping hot with pie-enthusiasts and murder suspects.
Florida is alight with the frenzy of the holiday season—and when a fierce rivalry between key lime pie bakers leads to a pastry chef’s murder, food critic Hayley Snow is fit to be pied.
During the week between Christmas and New Year’s, the year-round population of Key West, Florida, faces a tsunami of tourists and snowbirds. It doesn’t help that outrageously wealthy key lime pie aficionado David Sloan has persuaded the city to host his pie-baking contest. Every pie purveyor on the island is out to win the coveted Key Lime Key to the City and Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow is on the scene to report it.
Meanwhile, Hayley’s home life is turning more tart than sweet. Hayley’s new hubby—police detective Nathan Bransford—announces that her intimidating mother-in-law is bearing down on the island for a surprise visit. Hayley offers to escort Nathan’s crusty mom on the iconic Conch Train Tour of the island’s holiday lights, but it becomes a recipe for disaster when they find a corpse among the glittering palm trees and fantastic flamingos. The victim—Au Citron Vert’s controversial new pastry chef—was a frontrunner in Sloan’s contest.
It’s bad enough that Hayley’s too-curious mother-in-law is cooking up trouble. Now, the murderer is out to take a slice out of Hayley. Can she handle the heat of a killer’s kitchen?
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Another visit to Key West! This time the island was so full because New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are big holidays there. There were little details that made you feel how crowded it was. Honestly, I felt a little uncomfortable.
Nathan was busy keeping people safe and then he had to solve the murder also. It's a good thing Hayley and his mom were helping him. Hayley was running around the island eating every Key Lime thing in existence while interviewing suspects. There are some good suspects, but the solution is more personal than I expected. I'm hoping we see the story beat come back in future books. It feels like there is more to develop there.
The development of Hayley and her mother in law was better than I expected. It did not follow any typical tropes. It was much better. I think that might have been my favorite part of this one.
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13 primary booksKey West Food Critic Mystery is a 13-book series with 13 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Lucy Burdette.
