Cleo Coyle
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 275 pages Rating: 3.7 | 12735 Users | 1351 Reviews
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| Original Title: | On What Grounds |
| ISBN: | 042519213X (ISBN13: 9780425192139) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Coffeehouse Mystery #1 |
| Characters: | Clare Cosi |
| Setting: | Greenwich Village, New York City, New York(United States) East Hampton, New York(United States) |
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Introducing a delightful new series featuring Clare Cosi, manager of the historic Village Blend coffeehouse...Clare arrives at work to discover the assistant manager dead in the back of the store, coffee grounds strewn everywhere. Two detectives investigate. But when they find no sign of forced entry or foul play, they deem it an accident. Still, Clare is not convinced. And after the police leave, Clare can't help wondering...If this was an act of murder, is she in danger?
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| Title | : | On What Grounds (Coffeehouse Mystery #1) |
| Author | : | Cleo Coyle |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 275 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2003 by Berkley Books |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Cozy Mystery. Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.7 From 12735 Users | 1351 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books On What Grounds (Coffeehouse Mystery #1)
Yet another book that I wanted to like, but ultimately couldn't. I love cozy mysteries, but I wouldn't consider this a cozy mystery. Sure, there's a mystery buried in there somewhere. But I couldn't get past the coffee info-dump to get to the mystery. And it truly is an info-dump. As Clare is being interviewed about the accident, she's off on a tangent in her head about coffee and storing coffee and preparing coffee and waxing poetic about how she'll convert some coffee drinker to really, reallyAN UNEVEN BOOK. AT TIMES I LIKED IT AND FELT THE STORY WAS INTERESTING, AND AT TIMES I DISLIKED HOW SHE TALKED AT SUCH LENGTH ABOUT THE INTRICACIES OF COFFEE AND THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF DIFFERENT TEXTURE/ATMOSPHERE THINGS IN NEW YORK CITY AND SO ON. A LITTLE WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE, BUT I FELT LIKE A FIFTH OF THE BOOK WAS DEVOTED TO THIS EXCESSIVE DESCRIPTION (LIKE HOW VARIOUS SPECIALTY COFFEES ARE MADE) WHEN SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GETTING ON WITH THE STORY. I ALSO REALLY DISLIKED HOW SHE KEEPS
I read this for a challenge but the experience reminds me of why I don't tend to like the cozy mystery genre very much. In this case, our amateur sleuth, Clare Cosi, launches her own investigation into the death of one of her employees - someone she's known, in an employer/employee capacity, for all of a month - because she just knows that her death couldn't possibly be an accident, because I guess dancing students aren't capable of tripping or slipping like the rest of us. Her method of
Disappointed. I thought from the title that this would be a clever, comedic, fun, fast-paced read. Instead it tried too hard, had all the cliches, unlikeable characters, wasn't well-written, and it was insulting. The main character's initials were the same as the author's (despite that being a pen name). In the book, a dance studio owner said that when one of her dancers was nude dancing, she was debasing herself to a lower crowd of people. Hmmm, I think she could have said authors do that too
I'm sorry but these books are mochas for the mind [yes, I DID write that!] and I LOVE them for the total frothy foam brain-fluff that they are. (OK, seriously. I'm done).
I had to put this down for awhile after not getting it finished in time for a book club discussion, but I'd been wanting to get back to it and see how the Coffeehouse mysteries started--I'd already read the second one for another book club awhile back. I think I enjoyed it more than I remembered enjoying it when I'd only read a few chapters, probably because I didn't feel rushed to read it. I did start back at the beginning not trusting myself to remember anything, lol. I just love Madame's
First off, such a freaking brilliant title.Second off, I loved the concept. Coffee themed murders? Yes. Count me in.Third off, I think I liked the title more than the actual book. Clare Cosi, the manager of the historic Village Blend coffeehouse, is in a bit of a complicated situation. There's all the normal stuff - she's working under her ex-mother-in-law (whom she adores) but is sharing a duplex with her husband (whom she doesn't adore) due to her ex-mother-in-law's meddling. And then there's
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