By Sandra Balzo
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First tagged by Sandra Balzo "Sandy Balzo"
Customer tags: humor(2), coffeehouse mystery(2), mystery, criminals, coffee
Review & Description
Maggy Thorsen, former PR executive, and current coffeehouse owner finds the blonde, beautiful and bodacious queen of the wealthy city of Brookhills dead...dead in a pool of decidedly unfrothed milk in front of her espresso machine.
In a town where high heels are appropriate attire for a trip to the hardware store, why would any one of the town's latte loving citizens hot-wire an espresso machine with 220 shocking volts on the very day of its grand opening?
Stumbling over small town politics - and the all too self-important new sheriff, Jake Pavlik, Maggy is on her way to finding out the truth - even if it's a truth that may be very hard to swallow...
Uncommon Grounds was an Anthony Award and Macavity Award nominee for Best First Mystery
"In her delightful debut, Balzo puts a 21st-century spein on the traditional cozy, replacing tea with coffee as the comfort beverage of choice. Readers will want to curl up with this winner with a cappuccino or maybe even a Viennese cinnamon latte." Publishers Weekly
"...as wonderfully rich and sharply written as anything going. What moves Balzo's book high above other writers who try to cover the same territory is a sharp and often amusing skill that convinces us that this is real life, and that it matters."
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