Death by Hot Apple Cider

A Bookstore Cafe Mystery, Book 9

By: Alex Erickson

Narrated by: Melissa Moran

Krissy Hancock's bookstore-cafe in Pine Hills, Ohio, is teaming up with the local library for a seasonal celebration, but someone is spiking the refreshments - with fatal results....

With autumn in full swing and Thanksgiving on the way, Krissy's supplying cider and her staff is manning the apple-bobbing booth at a town event. But then a patron dunks his head in - and doesn't come back up.

It soon becomes clear that Krissy's brew wasn't to blame. But with her policeman boyfriend looking to make detective, she can't help being drawn into the investigation. The victim was notorious for harassing not only her own bookstore, but the library and the school for promoting supposedly scandalous literature - before someone censored him permanently. Now, Krissy will have to check out a stack of suspects to find a killer who's rotten to the core....

©2021 Eric S. Moore (P)2021 Tantor

Banned book taken to the next level… of murder!

Krissy gets herself caught in the middle of a banned book issue, including the murder of a man who fights the bookstores and the library and even the university, where ironically his brother works at. Now to find the killer, Krissy has to find out who done it and make sure she doesn’t get hurt in the process.

Ooof

Deeply, painfully, unbelievably stupid. The story is bad, the characters are written to be so dumb as to be totally unrealistic, an unfortunate waste of time.

Too political

It’s unfortunate that such a good writer stooped to revealing political biases and stereotypes. I was quite disappointed unfortunately. I hope the future books in this series don’t follow suit.