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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780425220498
ISBN number: 0425220494
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: April 01, 2008
Publishing house: Berkley
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Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series.
Clare Cosi's daughter, Joy, is interning-and falling- for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer-even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.
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In this the sixth installment of the Coffeehouse Mysteries, Coyle, the writing team of Alice Alfonsi (Rosemary Grace) and Marc Cerasini, who also write The Haunted Bookshop mysteries under the joint pseudonym Alice Kimberly, bring together an interesting assortment of characters.
As Clare Cosi is trying to do her job as the manager of the ever popular Village Blend, murder just always seems to pop up around her. But this time, it's her daughter Joy that is in trouble and if mommy and daddy don't run to her defense, it is quite possible that she will spend the rest of her life in jail for murder.
Restaurants are quite a cutthroat business, but when two employees of Solange are found dead, and Joy was the last to be seen with them what are the police to think? Even Clare's new love interest, Mike, the NYC Detective, is having a hard time with this one. And a couple other things.
There are multiple sub-plots that keep this book humming along and it's really a very good series that should be enjoyed with a great cup of coffee and maybe even try out a couple of the recipes in the back of the book.
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This is truly a delightful addition to the coffeehouse mystery series. This installment, somewhat more than the others, has quite a bite to it.
Murder has been brought home, so to speak, in the Cosi/Allegro household. Joy, their daughter, is booked on a double murder charge. The police feel the homicides have been solved so it's up to Clare, with paramour Mike Quinn's considerable assistance, to complete the investigation and find the real culprit(s) who committed these heinous acts.
Even with number six, there is absolutely no sign of staleness. The storyline is excellently crafted and character development, as usual, topnotch. I've always felt the author(s) had a great ear for dialogue and this installment is no exception.
P.S. If you haven't checked out the website which has been based on this cozy series, do so. It's great fun--and very obvious a great deal of work has gone into it! (Coffeehousemystery.com)
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By the time an author gets this deep into a series, fatigue sets in, plots become routine, and it's fairly easy to guess the killer. Not so in the 6th installment of Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mysteries. "French Pressed" is definitely a bit darker(pardon the pun)in tone and flavor than the very first four, but this is a good thing. A lot of cozies try to stay light and bubbly, but as we all know, darkness lurks, and while murder is never clean, Coyle manages to describe the gore of death without being too graphic or over the top. Being a food professional, I appreciate her descriptions of restaurant life, the crazy chefs, the competitive tension,the drug use, and yes, the sexual relationships that may spring up between employee and boss. It's nice to see Claire's relationship with the detective progress, and being an woman in Claire's age group, the realities of having relationships being a single 40 something(or very near it!). I have to say that, in Claire's case though, hers was a little too easy to find. Talk to any woman who lives in the NY Metro area, it's kinda hard to find a good looking single, employed man who wants monogamy and commitment that quickly! I guess that's why they call it fiction. I eagerly await what happens with Claire, Joy, Matteo and Madame.
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This is the sixth in Coyle's clever and well-written series featuring Clare Corsi, the manager of the Village Blend coffeehouse in New York City.
Clare runs the coffeehouse along with her ex-husband Matt Allegro, who is often away on long trips buying coffee. Their daughter Joy is a culinary school graduate, now interning at the prestigious Solange. Clare has met Joy's boss, head chef Tommy Keitel, a conceited but talented womanizer many years her senior. Clare is eating at Solange one night, and when she goes to the kitchen to visit Joy, she witnesses Tommy's assistant Brigitte, screaming at the staff. She rescues Joy from a knife-wielding Brigitte, who then disappears, running out the door.
Later Joy checks on sick co-worker Vinny, who she finds stabbed to death in his apartment. There are plenty of possible suspects, but the police like Joy for the murder. They let her go, but Clare swears to investigate on her own and goes to Solange to pitch her own superior coffee blends as a way to hang around and question the staff.
Clare had been shocked to discover that Tommy and Joy are having an affair, and she has been trying to talk some sense into her daughter, but to no avail. Tommy vows to break up with Joy, and Clare is appeased, but he dumps her in a very nasty way. Joy flees in tears to her grandmother's apartment. Late that night she returns to Solange to get her knives, and when Clare hears where she is going, she dashes there as well. Clare arrives just in time to hear Joy's scream when she discovers a second body with a knife in the neck, just like Vinny. Now the cops arrest Joy, and won't listen to Clare's list of possible other suspects, starting with Brigitte, the crazy drug-addled chef fired the day before. Clare decides to investigate since the police aren't-and Clare enlists her boyfriend Mike Quinn, a police detective.
Clare and Mike make a great team, in more ways than one.
Armchair Interviews says: Another great addition to this series.
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"French Pressed" still has all the appeal the 1st two books in the Coffeehouse Mystery series.... Great cast of characters, well-developed plot, great dialogue, tons of blue herrings and lots of wit!!
And yes, finally, Claire Cosi & Detective Mike Quinn hook up after flirting since the start of the 1st novel of the series! Looking forward to reading the 7th installment in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series coming out this fall!
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