Book 84
Killer Crust by Chris Cavender
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This came to me in a blind box of books from a friend so I've not read the first books. Eleanor and Maddy are sisters running a pizza shop in NC. "Laughing Luigi" a man with a pizza dough company and a bad past with them (tried to buy the shop soon after Eleanor's husband died) has invited them into a pizza making contest using his dough. The grand prize is 25K and there are only four teams, hers from Timber Line (a little town with a 5 star brand new resort where this is taking place and run by one of her friends, Gina) a husband and wife team from Ashville, twins from Raleigh and a nasty chef and his partner from Charlotte.
Naturally no one likes Luigi, the contest is rigged and by the second cook on day one, Luigi is dead. All of them are suspects including his brother who inherits the company and Jack who thinks he's inheriting. This time, Kevin (the sheriff) asks the sisters to help him (I get the impression that's not usually the case) . Helping out is also Hank, the hotel security guard who was a cop and Kevin doesn't like (something never brought up as to why)
As a mystery it was fine. There wasn't a lot of clues per se but what bugged me about this was the sisters. They are outrightly rude in their investigation. One of the twins slammed a door in their face. I'm shocked more people didn't. They treated Hank like he was an idiot and resented him being in their case. I found them fairly unlikeable and self important. Also there were some tension building things that were just annoying. Like messing up the first contest because they didn't know how to work with Luigi's dough (I mean you're going into a contest you do NO prep work?) or how one sister doesn't take the pizza out of the oven when the other was busy getting in someone's face.
It's not a bad story but it also didn't make me want to read more.
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