Seas The Day by Maggie Touissant is the first book in the NEW “Seafood Capers” cozy mystery series. Publisher: Henery Press, coming Apr 21, 2020
Caterer River Holloway cooks like a dream and is known on Shell Island as a “finder” of things. Which is why a desperate mother begs River to track down her grown son, Chili Bolz, who’s vanished.
Deputy Lance Hamlyn can’t find the missing man, so he teams up with River. The missing person case boils over into something frightening when Chili’s mother falls victim to a brutal assault. Worse, her dying words incriminate River’s friends in both kidnapping and, now, murder. River soon finds herself caught in an unsavory recipe for disaster.
Despite catering events and the return of her absentee boyfriend, River finds the number of suspects growing longer than her food shopping list. Along the way she befriends a black cat who becomes her crime-solving partner. River must locate Chili and discover who killed his mother before her own goose is quite literally cooked.
Maggie Toussaint serves up a fun and captivating read in Seas the Day, the first in her Seafood Capers series.
Dru’s Musing:
Doing a favor for a friend lands River in a quagmire of circumstances that opened up a can of worms where appearances can be deceiving. A trusted friend, a missing son and now because of her involvement, River is dragged into the dangerous situation leaving her with no other choice but to solve this puzzling case.
The author did a great job in staging this fast-paced and well-written drama with a solid mystery filled with a tale of suspense and intrigue. Every encounter that River made was a potential suspect and when all the secrets came to light with a few strategically placed twists, the person responsible was left standing holding the proverbial bag.
I enjoyed this book and I hope we get a chance to learn more about River and her friends with a second book in this engagingly appealing series.
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FTC Full Disclosure – I received a digital ARC of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss.