
Guilty as Cinnamon
Spice Shop Mystery, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Dara Rosenberg
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By:
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Leslie Budewitz
Springtime in Seattle's Pike Place Market means tasty foods and wide-eyed tourists, and Pepper's Spice Shop is ready for the crowds. With flavorful combinations and a fresh approach, she's sure to win over the public. Even better, she's working with several local restaurants as their chief herb and spice supplier. Business is cooking - until one of Pepper's potential clients, a young chef named Tamara Langston, is found dead, her life extinguished by the dangerously hot ghost chili - a spice Pepper carries in her shop.
Now, stuck in the middle of a heated police investigation, Pepper must use all her senses to find out who wanted to keep Tamara's new café from opening - before someone else gets burned….
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If you could sum up Guilty as Cinnamon in three words, what would they be?
Humor, fun & food referencesDid the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
It could have been anyone.Which character – as performed by Dara Rosenberg – was your favorite?
PepperWas there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I really enjoyed when Arf saved the little boyShe has a way with words and humor
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Classy Seattle, History, Mystery and Adventure
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Spice up your day
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Pepper’s passion for herbs & spices
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As she still works hard to keep her business running, Pepper also investigates the case, partly because she feels she owes it to Tamara and partly because Alex, whom she dated briefly, has been arrested for the crime and begs Pepper to get to the truth, just as she had done six months earlier in the first book, Assault and Pepper. The case that begins as a bad dream turns into a nightmare when Pepper gets hints that the murder weapon was the ghost spice, the hottest spice on record and one included in Pepper’s twice-weekly shipment to Alex. So could Pepper have supplied the murder weapon herself? It’s enough to make get feel responsible for locating the killer.
This book is full of flavor in many ways. The vivid depictions of the spice shop and Pikes Place Market bring everything to life. I felt I could actually smell the many blends of spices that Pepper and her employees concoct to create numerous flavors. Having the ghost pepper serve as the murder weapon also just adds to this cornucopia of senses, something I don’t usually expect to find in a book.
The characters in this book do not have the same roundness and flavor as the spices and Pikes Place Market. We do learn a lot about Pepper herself and what gives her drive in life. But we don’t really get to know the other characters very well. We see Alex, the detective pair Spencer and Tracy, other people in the restaurant world, and Pepper’s cop ex-husband, but we don’t really get to know them. I want to connect to the other characters in my books, either positively or negatively, but I don’t get that sense in this book. For a book that immerses me so effectively in the surroundings, I am actually rather surprised at the lack of character development in the book. Even the dog, Arf, who shows great potential for creating delight in the reader, comes close but not quite close enough to meeting this standard.
The book also goes off on a strange tangent on the topic of hunting ghosts. In general, I don’t like the addition of the paranormal to my cozy mysteries, but I will accept such topics if the ghosts don’t take up too much space in the books and do not make the books feel creepy. But though the paranormal details in this book are not overly intense or eerie, they seem to arise out of the blue and don’t fit well with the plot of the book.
The audio edition of this book is read by Dara Rosenberg. Her performance suits the voice and attitude that I sense in the character of Pepper, who gives a first person narration of the book. I am certain that I would not have felt the vibrancy of sensory stimulation that I experienced in this book without such an effective narrator or even as a book read on my own instead of audibly.
Despite my stated reservations, I really did enjoy this book. Each chapter begins with a quote that I really enjoyed. Most books that start with a quote don’t catch by attention with the this, and I find myself merely bearing the opening quote in order to get to the meat of the bike book. But I found the quotes that open each chapter to be lively and suit the text. The plot took some fascinating turns, catching by attention dramatically. I give this book four stars!
Great culinary mystery
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Better than the first
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Great series!
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Learning about spices is an added bonus while reading Pepper’s stories of mystery and intrigue on the streets of Seattle. The descriptions of the Seattle marketplace let me relive my own memories of being there.
And I love her characters - I can envision them all though the author’s vivid details.
I recommend this cozy mystery!
Pungent!
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I love Seattle and food!
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