3.5 stars
Puzzling Ink by Becky Clark is my first book by the author and I’m glad i’ve taken a chance on it. I don’t make cozy mysteries stories my favourite or my priorities but every now and then I’m looking up some interesting ones and this book is as engaging as interesting in so many ways.
A young woman, living with her parents and being on the spectrum of OCD, running a restaurant as a waitress and creating solving puzzles for the local magazine, finds herself into a very unsettling situation. A man is found dead on one of her tables and her boss is incriminated. Being a master at solving puzzles, she starts her own investigation about the murder, even if it looks way too dangerous for her own good.
It’s a funny, light read with an interesting mix of characters as her parents and unusual baking recipes, a lot of mysteries and suspenseful moments that the author has made them look easy to navigate through despite the dangerous topic. Adding real life struggles of the OCD moments, made the heroine more lovable and sympathetic.
A fast paced, well written story, perfect for the lovers of the genre.
Description
1 DOWN: DEATH BY HOMICIDE
Quinn Carr wishes her life could be more like a crossword puzzle: neat, orderly, and perfectly arranged. At least her passion for puzzles, flair for words—and mild case of OCD—have landed her a gig creating crosswords for the local paper. But if she ever hopes to move out of her parents’ house, she can’t give up her day job as a waitress. She needs the tips. But when a customer ends up dead at her table—face down in bisquits and gravy—Quinn needs to get a clue to find whodunit . . .
6 LETTERS, STARTS WITH “M”
It turns out that solving a murder is a lot harder than a creating a crossword. Quinn has plenty of suspects—up, down, and across. One of them is her boss, the owner of the diner who shares a culinary past with the victim. Two of them are ex-wives, her boss’s and the victim’s. A third complication is the Chief of Police who refuses to allow much investigation, preferring the pretense their town has no crime. To solve this mystery, Quinn has to think outside the boxes—before the killer gets the last word . . .
“FRESH, FAST, AND FURIOUSLY FUN . . . Becky Clark writes with wry wit, a keen eye, and no shortage of authority.”
—Brad Parks , Shamus Award-winning author (on Fiction Can Be Murder)
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