MY SO-CALLED LUCK by Jennifer Fischetto

Fiction, Cozy Mystery

5*****

Blurb: Welcome to Chance, a town founded on luck and filled with secrets. Sofie Rinaldi is just an ordinary young woman working at the local diner and dreaming of more than her small town life. That is, until she suddenly finds she can conjure up mystical spells. Too bad she hasn’t a clue what she’s doing. And when people start dying around her, she’s left wondering if her spells are somehow responsible. Can Sophie discover the truth about the deaths in Chance… or has her luck finally run out?

Thoughts: This was a fun book to read. Sofie is 25, lives at home with her dad above his diner where she works as a waitress. She recently discovered that she is a witch who can put spells on people through food. Unfortunately, she has no clue what she’s doing and karma bites her hard a few times. When the local football coach is killed, she wonders if one of her spells was responsible. And when her dad is arrested for his murder, she knows she has to figure things out fast. Add in a mother who’s been absent for most of her life and a cute newspaper journalist who was an old nemesis, but may be something else now.

The characters were well done as was the setting. Loved that the little town changed their name and all the shops to things to do with luck. Kind of knew who the baddie was early on, but that didn’t take away from the enjoyment of the story. The murder was solved but there were enough threads that we know there’s going to be more coming in this series.

Recommended.

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