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    Crypt Suzette
    Crypt Suzette
    Crypt Suzette
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    Crypt Suzette

    By Maya Corrigan

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    Val Deniston is catering the debut of Bayport’s newest bookstore—but the death of a customer is about to draw her into a real-life murder mystery …

    Suzette Cripps has been occupying a spare bedroom at Val’s granddad’s house while she takes classes in this Maryland Eastern Shore town—but she’s always seemed a little secretive and fearful, and any talk about her past is a closed book.
     
    After winning the costume contest at the Halloween-themed bookstore party, Suzette is mowed down by a hit-and-run driver—and Val and her grandfather start to wonder whether it was really an accident or if someone was after Suzette. Granddad is a little distracted by his new enterprise as a ghost-buster, but as Val talks to Suzette’s coworkers and fellow creative writing students, she grows more convinced that the dead woman’s demons weren’t imaginary—and that she needs to rip the mask off a killer …
     
    Includes delicious five-ingredient recipes!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKensington Books
    Release dateAug 27, 2019
    ISBN9781496722430
    Crypt Suzette
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    Maya Corrigan

    Maya Corrigan lives near Washington, D.C., within easy driving distance of Maryland's Eastern Shore, the setting for this series. She has taught courses in writing, detective fiction, and American literature at Georgetown University and NOVA community college. A winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense, she has published essays on drama and short stories under her full name of Mary Ann Corrigan. Visit her at mayacorrigan.com.

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    • 5/5
      A great book, Easy reading.
    • 5/5
      This Halloween-themed cozy is the 6th book in the Five-Ingredient Mystery series but it was the first on of the series that I read. Despite it being my first, I caught on to the characters quickly (which I love) and thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, so much so, that I've already picked up some of the earlier books.Very entertaining with a nice plot and characters I'll enjoy reading more about. Highly recommended to cozy fans!!(I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via Net Galley, in exchange for a fair and honest review.)
    • 4/5
      Crypt Suzette by Maya Corrigan is the sixth A Five-Ingredient Mystery. Val Deniston is catering the grand opening of Title Wave which is the new bookstore owned by Dorothy Muir. There is a costume contest as part of the festivities with a gift card to the bookstore as the grand prize. Suzette Cripps, who has been renting a room from Don Myers, Val’s grandfather, enters the contest and wins with her creative entry. The next morning, Chief Earl Yardley visits the house to notify them that Suzette is dead from a hit-and-run driver. Val has a feeling that it was not an accident and decides to learn more about Suzette. After someone tries to run Val down, she has a feeling she is on the right track. There are multiple suspects, good misdirection and discreet clues. You will have to pay close attention if you want to solve this case before the reveal. While Val is working on Suzette’s case, Grandad is busy with his new ghost hunting business. He has two women who have had items disappear. Both mysteries are cleverly done and interesting to follow. We can always count on Grandad to provide humor and he does not disappoint in Crypt Suzette. He is certainly busy with his Codger Cook column, private investigating business, and now ghost hunting. Bayport is celebrating Halloween and the festivities help provide Val with a vital clue. Bram Muir has come to town to help his mother with her new business venture and Val has caught his eye. While Crypt Suzette is the sixth book in the series, it can be read alone. There is cooking a plenty in Crypt Suzette and the author provides a couple of recipes at the end of the book. I always enjoy the banter between Val and her grandfather. I like that they have a close relationship and share the same interests (cooking and investigating crimes). The ending of Crypt Suzette will have you laughing. Crypt Suzette is a spirited cozy mystery with clever costumes, devilish delights, a crafty killer, Halloween hijinks, morbid moaning, and a phantasmal plunderer.
    • 3/5
      Val Deniston is catering the debut of Bayport's newest bookstore--but the death of a customer is about to draw her into a real-life murder mystery ...

      Suzette Cripps has been occupying a spare bedroom at Val's granddad's house while she takes classes in this Maryland Eastern Shore town--but she's always seemed a little secretive and fearful, and any talk about her past is a closed book.

      After winning the costume contest at the Halloween-themed bookstore party, Suzette is mowed down by a hit-and-run driver--and Val and her grandfather start to wonder whether it was really an accident or if someone was after Suzette. Granddad is a little distracted by his new enterprise as a ghost-buster, but as Val talks to Suzette's coworkers and fellow creative writing students, she grows more convinced that the dead woman's demons weren't imaginary--and that she needs to rip the mask off a killer ...

      This was a good mystery best read around Halloween.

      *Book received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*
    • 5/5
      Val Deniston runs the Cool Down Cafe at the local health club, and also has side jobs catering small events. When she's hired to cater a Halloween-themed party at a new bookstore, her grandfather's tenant, Suzanne Cripps, mentions how she'd like to enter. But Val doesn't expect the entrants to be at each other's throats before the contest, nor that the next morning Suzette will be mowed down by a car and die. While the chief of police think it was a mere accident, Val starts looking at Suzette's past and she's not so sure. With the help of her grandfather, Val starts digging into the suspects, and discovers that more than one person could have had a motive; but Suzette was a decent person who didn't deserve her fate, and Val is determined to see someone pay for the crime...I have to say that when I first started reading this book, one name in particular struck out at me. Being a huge classic film fan (I own thousands of them), I was later happy to see that I wasn't the only one in the book who noticed it, and where it was from. But I will say no more on that subject, since I don't want to ruin the book for others who might not know until it's pointed out.That being said, I really enjoyed the book. When I first started reading this series, I wasn't impressed. But I'm glad that I stuck with it, since both Val's grandfather Don and Val herself have been growing throughout the series. I am impressed at how far Don has come, and finally showing his granddaughter how much he loves and appreciates her; and that Val's bitterness toward what was her life has turned into happiness at what her life has become. These are good things in a book.But back to the plot: after Suzanne is killed, Val and her grandfather want to know why. They start researching the people she worked with in her job as a hotel clerk, and also her co-writers in a writers' group. What Val finds is disturbing on both counts. But without any evidence, police chief Earl Yardley isn't going to go along with it, stating that it was probably an accident.But along with that, Don has been hired to find out why things are missing from his clients' homes, and the person who owns the Title Wave bookstore, Dorothy Muir, is an old friend of Don's, but the same can't be said of her son, Bram. He doesn't like the idea of hiring a caterer, and he seems harsh and stolid. But is that because of his personality, or because he doesn't understand how small towns work? At any rate, Val is about to find out.When it becomes apparent that there's more to Suzanne's past that leads them to the point they now are, Val figures it out eventually, and when she does, it comes to a nice conclusion that wasn't really expected. While rather sad at points, there's no reason for taking a life, and the ending leaves us looking forward to the next in the series. I really enjoyed how all the threads eventually came together, and I do like the fact that Val never puts herself in harms' way (at least intentionally); and yet she manages to get to the bottom of things. I also have to say that I'm glad the way the series is going and looking forward to reading the next one soon.

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