Practical Sins for Cold Climates

In Shelley Costa's Practical Sins for Cold Climates, the first installment in the Val Cameron Mystery cozy series, she tackled a grittier nail-biter in this new cozy series debut. For Val Cameron, a senior editor from Fir Ta Dine publishing company in New York, she headed over to Canada to procure a contract deal with a recluse in the Canadian mountains. From there, she met an interesting array of people who supported Camp Sojo and learned the astonishing history behind it with the debate of tearing it down. She uncovered secrets and lies of the death of the people who were there, then and now. As she tried to track down Charles Cable, she met widower Wade Decker and dealt with stone-cold business with her boss, Peter Hathaway. As she uncovered the truth behind Leslie Decker's murder, she couldn't believe who was the culprit and how close she was to the truth that can be so cold.

This was a great new cozy series from Shelley Costa. I really cared about Val and how she sought from the truth behind the camp and the past secrets. I liked Wade Decker and couldn't care for some characters. I loved the Canadian scenery and how vivid it came on the page. This is fantastic to delve right into the plot and get into the thick of things with a nitty gritty sense of the drama that played out. It had plenty of drama, intrigue, suspense, and a hint of romance on every page.

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You Cannoli Die Once

Bongiorno! Welcome to Miracolo, a family-owned Italian Restaurant in Quaker Hills, PA. Eve Angelotta was the head chef and discovered a dead body in her kitchen in Shelley Costa's You Cannoli Die Once, the first installment in the Miracolo Mystery series. Later on, she discovered he was her nonna's boyfriend. And when Maria Pia was a suspect for his murder, she would do everything to clear her name. Besides running the restaurant, she kept everything in check, including her cousins and her best friend Dana. The digger she dug into the murder, the more dangerous the situation it was for her. And when she fell for Mark Metcalf, a potential love interest, things weren't the way it seemed. But sparks flew between her and hot lawyer, Joe Beck. With the lot of happenings going on in Quaker Hills, she learned more than she bargained for. There was a shocking twist and turned close to the end on who was the real culprit and why. Bon appetit! This culinary cozy had some yummy recipes to make for your home, too!

I love the background of an Italian restaurant for the setting. It made everything authentic as an Italian. The delicious yummy Italian recipes in the back of the book are to die for. I loved the connection between Eve and Joe when they first met. This is another great cozy when a small community stuck together throughout crises. Mark Metcalf was a doofus! I hated him at first sight of reading this book.

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