Welcome to Spicetown
by Sheri Richey
Kindle Edition, 276 pages
Published February 12th 2019
Goodreads synopsis:
When a crime stopper senior citizen starts to act oddly, a new business sells fake products and the New Year’s Eve fireworks display disappears, Mayor Cora Mae Bingham and the Spicetown Police Chief Conrad Harris have to get involved.
Cora keeps an eye on her quaint small town nestled in the southern hills of Ohio. Although Spicetown is sprinkled with culinary street names, stores full of spices, and quaint life-long citizens, out-of-towners can bring in a dicey element.
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3.5 Stars
This is the first book in the Spicetown Mysteries series by Sheri Richey.
I felt this was different than a normal cozy mystery for me since no one was murdered. It was all about a bunch of stolen fireworks stolen under the police chief’s nose on New Year’s Eve.
Basically, this book was doing a ton of world building in order to offer us a cast of characters and a setting we are comfortable with. I enjoyed the interplay between the lady mayor Cora Bingham and the police chief, Conrad Harris. I expect to see a bit of a romance sparking there in the future.
Since this is a small town cozy everyone knows everyone else’s business and that is what ends up helping the sleuthing team solve the crime in the end.
Not sure if Cora will get her wish to erect a statue of the town’s founder but I am sure this will be a sticking point for future chaos between the characters. The entire town is all spice related. All the streets and businesses are named after spices and that makes this book so fun to read. Looking forward to book two in the series.
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