Nest Egg

Aloha Chicken Mysteries, Book 1

By: Josi Avari

Narrated by: Angie Hickman

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

A 2019 Whitney Awards finalist.

Hens and homicides in a cozy slice of paradise.

Saffron Skye has inherited a little piece of Hawaiian paradise. Only it's filled with the leftovers of her late uncle's life and overrun with his enormous flock of chickens. When her new friend, the oldest man in town, dies, no one else finds it suspicious. But as the town's newest poultry keeper, Saffron recognizes "fowl" play when she sees it.

Saffron is a tetrachromat and can see colors nobody else can see. If only she could do the same with killers.

To find the culprit - and the victim's hidden fortune - Saffron will have to look in some surprising places. Even her new flock will lend a wing.

With scrumptious island food galore and two handsome men vying for her attention, Saffron has to focus, crack a few eggs...and crack the case.

©2019 Josi Avari (P)2020 Tantor

5 stars

Nest Egg is my first book by Josi Avari but it won't be my last. The characters are well developed and the mystery is well plotted. There are several twists and turns and the mystery is intriguing. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to the next book.

Nest Egg

Since we have a few backyard chickens to provide us with fresh eggs, I couldn’t resist giving this series a try. It’s a nice story but a bit slow paced. I may try Book 2.? The series seems to hold promise. It’s a clean cozy mystery with just the right amount of romance to suit my taste, just took a little longer than needed to tie up loose ends IMO.

Good one for several reasons.

Good one. Smooth and evocative. I didn’t expect to like a story about an egg farm so much!

Saffron, Saffron, Saffron, DC

I really wanted to like this book as I have a love of Hawaii and I have chickens, that being said this was very soft moric. One thing that I still can't get past is the name Saffron as the main character and she wrote it in the third person but we never saw anybody else's point of view so if she would have written it in the first person we wouldn't have had to hear Saffron said, Saffron saw, Saffron heard. She was a cleaning Wiz she came into abandoned, hoarders house in Hawaii cleaned a room lived in it, then cleaned out the chicken coops, can you imagine what that abandoned house in Hawaii would be like as far as bugs , rats perhaps even a mongoose or two? I would think the first thing you would want to do is get where you're going to be staying cleaned out and not worry about the chicken coops and the wild chickens, after a year they're not going to be domestic chickens anymore. She suspected everybody and anybody over and over again even when it wasn't logical, I still haven't figured out why somebody else is stash would be in her uncle's house and why the love interest were so geeky. She skipped around a whole lot instead of staying on topic or stood around thinking during action scenes or eavesdropping. I see she's written several books in this series, I will give one more book a try later in the series hoping that she a little bit of help from some editor. I did like that she had the story set in Hawaii, I did like that she included some Hawaiian and Pidgin.

Enjoyed it

I admit I love chickens but also love the plot. I will listen to the rest in the series.