Murder by Mocha
Cleo Coyle. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-24143-1
La vita is definitely dolce these days for feisty Clare Cosi in Coyle's 10th coffeehouse mystery (after 2010's Roast Mortem): she has an exquisitely furnished, rent-free duplex above Village Blend, the Greenwich Village coffee shop she manages for her former mother-in-law; steamy amore with NYPD detective Mike Quinn; even a lucrative deal to use some of her Village Blend beans in Mocha Magic, a new love potion being pitched to women by a Web powerhouse, Aphrodite's Village. Of course, there's trenta-sized trouble brewing. Indeed, the Mocha Magic launch gala turns into a crime scene with Clare's discovery of a slain Aphrodite's Village exec. She soon finds a second murder victim%E2%80%94and herself in the line of fire. Until the pseudonymous Coyle (the wife-husband writing team of Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini) starts stirring in too many subplots, this is a tasty espresso-dark tale of multigenerational crime and punishment lightened by the Blend's frothy cast of lovable eccentrics. (Aug.)
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Reviewed on: 06/27/2011
Genre: Fiction
Compact Disc - 9 pages - 978-1-60998-369-7
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Mass Market Paperbound - 384 pages - 978-0-425-25536-0
Open Ebook - 384 pages - 978-1-101-51737-6
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