Tag: Bistro at Holiday Bay

• Title: Clues and Canines
• Author: Kathi Daley
• Series: The Bistro at Holiday Bay #5
• Genre: Cozy Mystery
• Takes Place:  Holiday Bay Maine
• Main Character: Shelby
• Other Characters: Carly, Colt, Beck, Dawson, Amy
• Stars: 3

Bistro at Holiday bay is a spin off of The Inn at Holiday Bay & this book is the 15th in the Bistro series. While I love this series, I think I prefer the inn at holiday bay. I do like Shelby who first arrived in Holiday Bay after her inheritance when she discovered she had two half sisters whom she did not know about. The sisters grew very close and Shelby chose to remain in the house inherited by the sisters and opened a bistro in the town.

It is Halloween and Shelby along with her employees are preparing the Bistro for a big Halloween party. Carly is the local dog walker and she comes in looking for Beck, who is the local private investigator and uses a booth at the Bistro to conduct his business. Carly is all flustered because she is sure she just saw the after math of a murder. Or did she? Even though she is convinced she saw a dead body, there isn’t any evidence to prove it so the local Police chief Colt and his deputy Alex are on the case with the help of Beck & Dawson (bartender/computer genius).

This book was ok. I do like catching up with the characters of Holiday bay but this book wasn’t fantastic and there weren’t a lot of twists to discover if there really was a body. It is Halloween after all. I like a mystery with a ‘wow, I didn’t see that coming’ type ending and this one just didn’t deliver. If you like a good read, you will enjoy it but if you like that ‘wow’ factor, then you might find it a bit boring.

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• Title: Sunshine & Sweet Wine
• Author: Kathi Daley
• Series: Bistro at Holiday Bay #4
• Genre: Cozy Mystery
• Takes Place:  Holiday Bay, Maine
• Main Character: Shelby, Dawson
• Other Characters: Beck, Colt, Alex, Kennedy, Amy, Tricia, Nikki, Georgia
• Pets: Golden Retriever named Cooper and 2 cats Marley and Hennessy
• Stars: 4

This is the 4th installment in the Bistro at Holiday Bay Series. This series is a spin off of The Inn at Holiday Bay. I like the Inn best but I do like this series. This book is good and kept my interest, the only reason I gave it a star is because the ending was a bit of a let down. There was quite a bit of anticipation and I wanted to know what happened but then it seemed to leave me wanting a more intriguing ending.

In this installment, there are a few mysteries. Dawson is the bar manager and the Bistro. He has been gone a few days and returns to find that his prize Harley has been stolen. Whoever stole it, drove it through a guardrail to the bay below but they have not found the thief. There is a server who works at the Bistro who hasn’t shown up for work in a few days and no one can reach her. Where could she be?

Beck’s Mystery was the most interesting. Beck is a private investigator who uses a booth at the Bistro as his office. His newest client is receiving suspicious packages that appear to be from her mother, who has been missing and presumed dead for 50 years. Who could be sending her packages? Is someone trying to scare her? Could her mother still be alive? There are a lot of possibilities.

Dawson has been presented with an offer of a lifetime. Will he accept it and leave his job at the Bistro?

With all the mysteries going on, could there also be a possible romance in the making?

The characters are well thought out and 3 dimensional and I have become invested in their stories. The mysteries really piqued my interest, but the ending was just a bit of a letdown. I was expecting more of a twist. It won’t keep me from reading the next book in the series.

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