Criminals and Croissants
2022
First Published
4.58
Average Rating
201
Number of Pages
Welcome to The Mad Egg Diner Where the Eggs are Over Easy and the Murder is Hard Boiled Melody decides to take time away from the diner and hang with daughter Tricia for a week. She hopes for tall tales and Tanqueray gin, but halfway through the first cocktail, murder crashes the party. This time it’s Lara Lynch, personal bodyguard to none other than devil-may-care lawyer Sly Carrera. She’s been flattened by a car and it’s no accident. Since cowboy cop Gabe is still sore at Melody for risking life and limb on his watch, he cuts her out of the case. But our heroine’s undeterred. When the going gets tough, the tough go their own way. In true Melody style, she cooks up a sizzling batch of suspects that includes a miffed martial artist and a green-eyed girlfriend. But when both friends and family get hauled in for questioning, Melody and Gabe face off in the fiercest fight of their friendship yet. Then sweet old Gideon, Melody’s buddy and best customer, announces he’s buying the abandoned Irish pub, a suspicious move for a man with no money. To everyone’s dismay, he lands on the suspect list too, leaving locals to wonder. Is there’s anyone in town who didn’t do it? And the looming question underneath it all boils up again. There’s a crime ring in Cascade, Colorado that’s killing people. Who’s behind it? And can the feuding detectives dismantle it before it destroys them?
Avg Rating
4.58
Number of Ratings
111
5 STARS
72%
4 STARS
17%
3 STARS
7%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
0%
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Author
Constance Barker
Author · 202 books
Constance Barker lives in the Midwest with her husband and two Akitas where she can look out from her screened porch onto a wooded area brimming with activity. Since she was a young girl she read mysteries, often given to her by her grandmother. She loved figuring out who the culprit was and sometimes she was right and other times startled at who the author picked as the assailant. Now she enjoys writing mysteries herself. When she isn't writing stories, she can be found in her favorite vacation spot, Las Vegas or shopping for bargains.
