Town in a Pumpkin Bash

Really like 4.5. This has some of my favorite tropes of a cozy mystery, but it also has some awesome hard core mystery aspects. The primary mystery is just the tip of the iceberg for a historical mystery. I liked all of that. I liked Candy and other characters. I liked the commentary that there is a lot of murders recently.
I did not the timeline of the second mystery. It was hard to wrap my head around when the death happened, when the secrets happened, and when the starting event happened. It made it hard for me to figure out how it all happened.
When the murder was discovered, I didn't remember who it was. So there were a lot of characters and I had trouble keeping them straight.
However, I will be reading more of these. I love the enemy angle too much not to visit again.

It's Halloween in Cape Willington and that means all things pumpkin for the town residents. Candy Holliday and her BFF Maggie run a local pumpkin patch and part of their services is giving tourist and locals alike a delightfully haunted hayride. Everything is running smoothly until a body is discovered under a pile of pumpkins. Now it's up to Candy to figure out the “who did it”.



This was a fun little mystery. A small town feel and a cast of of interesting characters. I haven't read any of the other books in this series, and this book contained a lot of references to the previous books. So you may want to keep that in mind when deciding to give this one a go.

The mystery was really good and I really had NO clue who the “baddie” was going to turn out being. It takes A LOT to keep me guessing until the end of a mystery. I usually pride myself on figuring these things out ahead of the big reveal. So kudos to you author for stumping me. On top of that, you also get some VERY yummy sounding recipes at the end.

Who could ask for more, not I! Two thumbs up.