Review: Mixing Up Murder

MIXING UP MURDER by Emmie Lyn

Fiction, Cozy Mystery, 192 pages

5*****

This was a fun beginning to a new series set on the coast of Maine. Dani runs a small diner (Small Dog Diner) with her best friend, Lily. After attending a fake funeral for Lily’s soon-to-be ex-husband—who then ends up dead for real in Dani’s diner, Dani turns sleuth in order to find out who really killed him.

This was a cute story with great characters, but the best character was Pip, the dead man’s Jack Russell terrier who Dani adopts. Pip is a real…pip. I also loved the descriptions of the view from Lily’s grandmother’s place. The chill fog, the seagulls, the sound of the ocean… all added to a well-written cozy mystery.

Recommended

Murder wasn’t supposed to be on the menu at the Little Dog Diner, but that’s exactly what we got served anyway. Hi, I’m Dani Mackenzie and I’m the unfortunate soul who owns said diner. Looks like business is going to be slow for a little while as the whole town scrambles to find whodunnit. At first I just needed something to keep me busy while on my forced vacation, but now as the clues stack up, I’m caught in the middle of this crazy mixed-up murder. And I’ll do anything to get to the bottom of what really happened and why it happened in my kitchen. Too bad the only known witness to the crime is the victim’s terrier, Pip, and no one believes she bludgeoned her owner to death. But if not her… then who? And, perhaps more importantly, who’s next?