Title: Dead and Breakfast (Fox Point Files #1)
Genre: Romcom Mystery
Tropes: Second chance romance, small town, amateur sleuth
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I remember the first time I ever saw Detective Inspector Noah George.
We were seven, stupid, and he threw sand in my eye. I’m pretty sure that’s when I fell in love with him. Hey—I did say I was stupid.
Summers in Fox Point, my grandfather’s seaside hometown, were all we had together. Then we turned eighteen, life happened, and he never spoke to me again.
Until my grandfather’s death calls me back to the small town, only for his lawyer to tell me he’s left me my family’s dilapidated bed and breakfast that was home to many things—my first sleepover party, where my grandma taught me to cross-stitch, my first kiss with Noah…
And apparently, my first dead body.
My name is Lottie O’Neil, and I’m on the hook for the murder of a man I’ve barely met.
And the one who’ll have to arrest me is the only man I’ve ever loved.
Unless I find the real killer first.
Review:
Emma Hart is kicking off a new series with Dead & Breakfast. She’s calling it a “mystery rom com” which is fairly accurate–this first offering, though, feels like more of a cozy mystery with slight romantic elements, chock full of Emma Hart’s signature quirkiness.
So I guess “mystery rom com” is an easier way to say that, then? 😉
Readers waiting for the romance here, though, will have a loooooong wait–this is going to be a series focused on the main character, Lottie, which hopefully means we’ll have a lot more “rom” in future books, since this one was a second chance romance which took 98% of the book to come to fruition.
I guess they had a murderer to find, or something? 😉
Anyway, this was a cute read, and fairly quick. It’s full of the secondary characters we’ve come to expect–loyal besties, slightly inappropriate elders, and interesting pets (a hairless cat named Tofu…) and the slightly offbeat humor that Ms Hart is known for. Hopefully Lottie gets a little better at solving murders–or Noah goes a bit faster at the same–because I thought the killer was a little more obvious than they did? Though I suppose it’s the last minute near-death experience with the real culprit that adds that extra bit of spice to things, right?
Rating: 4 stars / B+
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
About the author:
New York Times & USA Today bestselling author, Emma Hart, has written more than seventy romance novels in the last decade. She loves writing snarky, swoony romcoms with a side of chaos, occasionally venturing into romantic mysteries. Which are exactly the same as her romcoms, just with a dead body or two. That’s the reason for her questionable Internet history—at least that’s the story she’s sticking to.
She lives on a smallholding in North Wales with her husband and their two children, a clowder of very fluffy cats, one giant German Shepherd, and an undisclosed number of chickens and ducks. Don’t ask her to count them. She will not, thank you very much.
When she’s not writing or chasing ducks in her pyjamas, you can find her creating cosy gaming content for her Youtube channel.
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