• Tastes Like Murder

  • Cookies & Chance Mysteries, Book 1
  • By: Catherine Bruns
  • Narrated by: Karen Rose Richter
  • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (86 ratings)

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Tastes Like Murder

By: Catherine Bruns
Narrated by: Karen Rose Richter
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Sally Muccio's had her crosses to bear: a cheating ex-boyfriend, crazy Italian parents, and an unfaithful husband, just to name a few. After her divorce, she returns to her hometown to start a novelty cookie shop whose specialties include original fortune cookies, served with a sprinkle of foreshadowing.

But there's no warning when her ex-husband's mistress drops dead on Sal's porch, and police confirm it's a homicide. Determined to stop her life from becoming a recipe for disaster, Sal takes matters into her own hands.

With two very different men vying for her affection, dead bodies piling up, and a reputation hanging by an apron string, Sal finds herself in a race against time to save both her business and life - before the last cookie crumbles.

©2015 Catherine Bruns (P)2017 Catherine Bruns

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Where's My Fortune Cookie?

Heroine Sally Mucci and her gal pal/sidekick can take on the world with their cookies, wisecracks and friendship, even when a corpse turns up in front of their store. Most of the characters have known each other since high school or even earlier and much of the action is driven by personality, family background, and relationships. This is a "cozy" mystery so fun and food are at the forefront and several recipes are included which I'd love to try. Narrator Karen Rose Richter had a great time creating the voices and various accents. Caution: There is a "Don't go in the haunted house!" moment when you'd like to thwack the character as you yell at her from the back of the theater.
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It was not the cookies!!!!

This is my first book by this author. I thought it was a great story line. Sal and her friend Josie run a bakery. A woman from her past that cheated with her ex husband comes to town and comes to the bakery and taunts her. On one of her visits, she get some cookies from Sal and leaves. However when Sal got ready to go out and opens her door she is dead outside the door. So of course she feels she needs to investigate herself for her business so she and her friend Josie have to find out how she died. It turns out it is bee venom, which of course, the victim Amanda is allergic too. But how did she ingest it. Sal is getting over a divorce and her old boyfriend comes back in her life and policeman,Bryan, who is working on the also has other interest in Sal. Both want to go out with her. Mike the old boyfriend wants them to rekindle their love. So now she has romance issues plus financial issues due to the murder outside her store. After asking people many questions, one being the deliveryman they use(sleazy guy) who was having an affair with Amanda, there is another murder. The delivery man. He too was poisoned. He had gotten some cookies from Sal. Someone put it in the cookies. Now there is two murders. Things start to get dangerous for Sally and Josie. Bryan tries to insist they quit snooping. Of course Sally does not. What will happen next? Who done It? And which guy will she choose? I received this book free in change for an honest review. I really enjoyed the story line and the characters were great. The narrator did a great job. The only thing i did not like was the guy she decided to be with. Just my opinion. I wanted her to pick the other guy. Other than that, i look forward to more in this series.

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3 and a half

This is an OK but typical story. I figured out who did it early but continued to listen because I liked the characters and wanted to see how the story unfolded. My only other complaint about this story is the unnecessary love triangle that seems to be part of every cozy mystery.

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A Stephanie Plum lite

This is a cozy murder mystery - Stephanie Plum lite book (same general plot and characters), just like the Plum books - there is an Italian family, older person obsessed with funerals, a cheating husband, two hot men (one who is a cop) and lots of cookies (instead of donuts).

There were points where I didn't want to finish it, just stop listening and be done. This is because the characters are just meh... The main character is a doormat - the victim is written so that no one really cares that she is dead. Unlike the Plum books - this one lacks the humor and wit.

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Did not finish

I could not finish this book. I listened to over half of the book before I had to stop. The characters were just weird. Everything about them was off. Nothing about the story held any interest for me. The narrator made Sally sound whiny and childlike. She made it difficult to listen to. This series is not for me. I was given a free copy of this audiobook and have voluntarily left this review.

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Loved it

I really loved this book. It kept me listening right through dinner as I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen next. The narrator has the perfect voice for reading this book.

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Fun

I enjoyed listening to this story. The narrator also did a great job with the voices. I look forward to reading more books by this author.

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Hard to Put Down Cookie Cozy Mystery

I have read other books by this author and really enjoyed them and this one was no different in enjoyment level. The main character has a new bakery and is trying to kick it off on a positive note and build good returning customers but when the woman who had an affair with her ex husband falls dead outside her bakery after eating one of her cookies it looks far too much like a revenge poisoning... she decides she can't wait for the police to figure it out in a matter of days her bakery would be dead as well. What transpires is a fun cozy mystery to try to prove her innocence and that her cookies are not to blame. Definitely recommend for cozy mystery fans.

Parents: this is acceptable for preteens and up
Language: G
Violence: PG murder but nothing graphic
Sexual content: PG - normal cozy romance, nothing to warn of

Narrator was fun and easy to listen too and had pretty good character differentiation.

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Fun read!

Great book with a cliffhanger that makes me know I have to read the second! Good mystery and a fun read. I received a free copy and left my honest review

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Baking and Murder

If you enjoy watching the Food Channel and like mysteries, you'll find this a baking good entry. Clues and suspects abound.

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