Shocking Murder at a Mansion
I wasn’t sure if we would get more Grilled Cheese Mysteries. The last book would have been a great ending to the series. So I was happy when I saw Linda Reilly was back with Between a Roquefort and a Hard Place.
The series features newlywed Carly Hale Mitchell who runs a grilled cheese diner in her hometown in Vermont. Business is booming, but she can’t help getting involved in the various murders happening in the area.
As this book opens, it’s been ten months since her wedding, and Carly and Ari are happily settling into married life. At her restaurant, she and her employees are working on a grilled cheese competition. But Carly drops everything when she is invited to Peppermint Mansion, the biggest and most mysterious house in the area, to cook a grilled cheese for the elderly owner. The mansion is undergoing renovations, and Ari is handling the electrical. But while Carly is there, the general contractor dies. The police quickly determine it wasn’t an accident and start looking at Ari as their prime suspect. Can Carly clear her husband?
The book does a good job of setting up the plot and getting to the murder quickly. We have several good suspects and the plot kept me guessing and engaged until we reached the logical ending.
Over the course of the series, we’ve met quite a few supporting characters. While they all have had a book to shine, they didn’t stand out from each other here. This is mostly true of Carly’s employees. It can be a problem in a long running series when we get so many characters we want to see again, but they wind up having very little page time as a result. The suspects, on the other hand, were good, as were the other new characters we met. And Carly and her husband are fantastic.
As always, there are some grilled cheese recipes at the end of the book. We get three more, and they sound delicious.
Between a Roquefort and a Hard Place is another delicious mystery. Grab a grilled cheese and enjoy.
Pick up the rest of the Grilled Cheese Mysteries.
NOTE: I received an ARC of this book.
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