January 9th's Friday Post

Welcome to Friday!  For the second Friday in a row, I'm doing a Friday Post.  I'll be linking up to:

Book Beginnings
First Line Friday
Friday 56
Book Blogger Hop

I'll be pulling quotes from the first three from Lime and Punishment by Cathy Wiley.

This is book five in her Fatal Food Festival Mysteries.  I love this series, and this book was no exception.  Here's how it begins:

Marshall Montclair held up the large, spiky green fruit like it was a precious gem instead of something that looked like a baby porcupine. A bright green baby porcupine.

Yes, the book has that sense of fun as it goes along, although we do have a murder mystery.  This is me, after all.

Meanwhile, at 56% into the book, we find this:

Zach managed a tired, crooked smile. “Let me treat all of you, including April and Marshall, to the best pizza on Maverick Key since you guys are awesome. Thank you. I just hope none of us gets arrested tonight.”
“We’ll try,” I said. “But no promises.”

Did anyone get arrested?  You'll have to read the book to find out.

My review will be up on Tuesday, so I hope you'll come back for it.

Meanwhile, let's take a look at this week's Book Blogger Hop.  The question is:

Looking back, which books from 2025 stood out as your favorites?

Well, I did just post my top reads of the year on Monday.  If you are interested, please check it out.  (Lazy, I know.  But there were 15 books on the list.)

And that's it for me.  Have a great weekend!