With her Agatha Raisin-obsessed best friend, Win tries to get to the bottom of the murder and clear her father’s name, while also trying to keep her fledgling business afloat. Not to mention the sleepy suburb’s one and only homicide detective has zeroed in on Win’s dad as his main suspect. Win Crewse is back in Ohio after a stint in New York and ready to re-open her grandparents’ ice cream parlor-except she stumbles over a dead body the very day of the grand reopening. I am not at all familiar with the tropes and conventions of cozies, so this is an outsider viewpoint.Ĭollette’s set-up here is cute. The important thing to note here is that A Deadly Inside Scoop is the first cozy mystery I’ve ever read, though it’s been a genre I’ve wanted to get into since roughly 2015. With the help of her quirky best friends and her tight-knit family, she'll catch the ice cold killer before she has a meltdown. It's not easy to juggle a new-to-her business while solving a crime, but Win is determined to do it. Soon, Win's father is implicated in his death. To make matters worse, that evening, Win finds a body in the snow, and it turns out the dead man was a grifter with an old feud with the Crewse family. But unexpected construction delays mean she misses the summer season, and the shop has a literal cold opening: the day she opens her doors an early first snow descends on the village and keeps the customers away. Win is renovating Crewse Creamery to restore its former glory, and filling the menu with delicious, homemade ice cream flavors-many from her grandmother's original recipes. Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to basics. This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop-with a fabulous cast of quirky characters.
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