CHILI CON CORPSES
BY J.B. STANLEY
Publisher: MIDNIGHT INK
http://www.midnightinkbooks.com/
Genre: Mystery
Series: A Supper Club Mystery, Book 3
ISBN: Paper: 9780738712598
Pages: Paper: 259
Price: Paper: $15.95CAN $13.95US
What’s murder between friends?
What is a Supper Club Mystery? Ms. Stanley has developed five very distinct characters who, I am assuming, joined together to lose weight and in the process have their share of trouble. This time around James, Bennett, Lindy, Lucy and Gillian have decided to take up cooking and wind up with a dead classmate.
Was the victim’s murder, a twin, a case of mistaken identity? Was it a case of competition? Who benefited from the victim’s death? Will James and Lucy remain together?
Do you really think I’m going to answer those questions?
I enjoyed “Chili Con Corpses.” While it took me a chapter to get into the feel of the group, I ended up caught up in their lives, current, past, and what the future holds. I can’t say that Ms. Stanley includes recipes in the previous Supper Club Mysteries; however, here she does and their appearance at the end of chapters are a change from other books that save them for the end of the book. I may even try a few.
Once in the mystery, I found “Chili Con Corpses,” for me, to be a one-day start to finish read. It provided an entertaining escape from the chaos of the holidays.
Ms. Stanley wrote a mystery that I could not decipher. I won’t say she pulled any fast moves, but my suspicion was roused at one point that could have ruined the final reading. However, Ms. Stanley curved the story just enough for me to question my solution.
Bon appetit.