A Room With A Roux
The Blurb
Marley and her new husband Brett need some quality couple time before the holiday madness, so they drive up into the mountains of the Olympic Peninsula to charming Holly Lodge. Before long, they’re enjoying snowshoe excursions, hot chocolates, and cuddling in front of a roaring fire. Despite some barely concealed marital tension between the owners of the lodge, they’re finally able to unwind.
Until one morning when they notice a glove sticking out of a snowbank outside of the lodge. Inside the glove is a hand connected to a frozen corpse buried beneath the snow, lodge owner Kevin Manning has been murdered. Presented with a stack of suspects and eventually stranded at the lodge by a blizzard, Marley has to catch the cold-hearted killer before someone else gets iced.
The Details
Series: A Pancake House Mystery – Book #7
Author: Sarah Fox
Genre/Catagory: Cozy –
Publisher: Lyrical Underground
ISBN:9781516110865
Page Count: 214
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The Review
Marley somehow always gets herself in the middle of a harrowing experience no matter what or where she is or who she is with. In A Room With A Roux, nothing has changed. Even with her new husband and their first chance to get away since the wedding, she can’t seem to keep away from murder. The pancake house, Flip Side, can wait while Marley solves not just one mystery but two.
When one of the owners of the lodge that Marley and Brett are staying at ends up dead, and all of the suspects are staying together, it makes for some interesting situations. Evidence is buried under ice and snow, and there appear to be several people who have an excellent motive to want Kevin dead. Still, finding out who the culprit is takes everything Marley can cook up, including pancakes. Before long, all of the pieces come together, and a killer is revealed. For some readers, the identity of the murderer may be surprising. The other mystery in the book, who is stealing ornaments from the tree e decorated by the local businesses, was easily solved, the motive understandable.
Marley is a strong character, and the length of this series proves this. Unfortunately, this time the backup crew readers have come to love are not as helpful as they have been in previous books. The Flip Side is, in fact, a side dish and plays no significant role. Even Brett takes a back seat. This aside, the story was compelling and added a fresh location instead of the same places Marley visits all the time. Readers who enjoy this series will like A Room With A Roux, even in the middle of summer.
The Author
Sarah Fox, a writer of cozy mysteries, was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she developed a love for mysteries at a young age. When not writing novels or working as a legal writer she is often reading her way through a stack of books or spending time outdoors with her English Springer Spaniel.
Other books by Sarah Fox readers will enjoy include The Malt in Our Stars from the “A Literary Pub Mystery” series or book six in the “A Pancake House Mystery,” Much Ado About Nutmeg.
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