A Vacation to Die For (A Tourist Trap Mystery Book 14) #novella, #backlist read

178 pages publisher Kensington Books | Lyrical Press Publication date September 6, 2022

ABOUT THE BOOK

In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More, discovers that wedding planning can be murder . . .

Hustling her fiancé off to a neighboring tourist town might be the only way Jill Gardner can plan her nuptials to South Cove’s in-demand police detective. But when a mystery man turns up dead at South Cove’s PD, Greg is hightailing it back home to investigate, leaving Jill to finish the vacation solo.
 
Jill can barely get in a spa day before her own respite is spoiled by a greedy hotel guest and unexpected revelations about Max Winter, the developer conniving to buy her home out from under her. Then there’s the staffing issues at the store, the strange men seen lurking about town, and an aggressive and obnoxious family member harassing Jill’s beloved employee. It’s enough to make the bride-to-be full of jitters . . . especially when she finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer . . . 

MY THOUGHTS

I’ve read other books in the Tourist Trap mystery series and have enjoyed them all. This is book fourteen in the series.
If you enjoy mysteries about traveling and with a female sleuth, you’ll enjoy this one.
Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More and her fiancée, a police detective are vacationing while making wedding plans.
When a body turns up off, he goes to investigate returning to work early leaving her to finish the vacation on her own while finalizing wedding plans. I’ll admit that would make me angry, but she knows what she’s getting into and the interruptions to life ahead of the wedding. And I know all about it too as my son is a police detective as well. always something coming up.
Well plotted, I enjoyed it. Quick easy read and novella length.

I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.

Award-winning New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, Lynn Cahoon, pens several cozy mystery series including The Tourist Trap Mysteries, The Kitchen Witch Mysteries, Survivors’ Book Club Mysteries, The Farm to Fork Mysteries, The Haunted Life Mysteries, and The Cat Latimer Mysteries. The Bainbridge Island Mysteries will be released in 2025. No matter where the mystery is set, readers can expect a fun ride. She lives in a small town in Eastern Tennessee like the towns she loves to write about with her husband and two fur babies.

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