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This is a cozy mystery which takes place in and around a Greenwich Village Coffee Shop. Clare Cosi is convinced to return to managing The Village Blend by the owner, who is also her former mother-in-law. The recently fired manager had stolen an antique (and historically important) plaque from the business, but her new assistant manager is doing a great job. Or she was until the morning Clare finds Anabelle at the bottom of the basement stairs, barely breathing. Did she fall? Or was she pushed? C
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Book #1 of the Coffeehouse Mysteries.
This is the book where we meet Clare and her ex-husband, Matt, her mother-in-law, Madame, and her daughter, Joy. Annabelle works at the coffeehouse and has been put into a position of trust. She is allowed to close the coffeehouse and open, while Clare finishes moving from NJ. When Clare arrives the next day at the Coffeehouse, she finds the place locked up tight and then finds Annabelle lying at the bottom of some stairs, gravely injured. Clare does not fe ...more
This is the book where we meet Clare and her ex-husband, Matt, her mother-in-law, Madame, and her daughter, Joy. Annabelle works at the coffeehouse and has been put into a position of trust. She is allowed to close the coffeehouse and open, while Clare finishes moving from NJ. When Clare arrives the next day at the Coffeehouse, she finds the place locked up tight and then finds Annabelle lying at the bottom of some stairs, gravely injured. Clare does not fe ...more
Clare Cosi returns to new York City to manage the coffee shop The Blend. On the day of her move she finds her assistant manager, Annabelle, collapsed at the bottom of the service stairs. The police can't prove the fall wasn't an accident. Clare is convinced Annabelle was shoved, because Annabelle was a dancer and could therefore never trip, and she takes on her own investigation with the police officers permission. The setup is totally unbelievable and the author dumps tons of random facts about
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Very cute cozy series. All the coffee lore and tips blended well with some very likeable characters and a good plot. I'll have to check out more of these.
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