Murder on Cape Cod

Maddie Day

Dec 2019 · A Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery Book 1 · Kensington Cozies

About this ebook

A Cape Cod shop owner and her book club must find a crafty killer in this charming new series from the Agatha-nominated author of the Country Store Mystery series.

Summer is busy season for Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida’s bicycle shop, nestled in the quaint, seaside hamlet of Westham, Massachusetts. She’s expecting an influx of tourists at Mac’s Bikes; instead she discovers the body of Jake Lacey. Mac can’t imagine anyone stabbing the down-on-his-luck handyman. However, the authorities seem to think Mac is a strong suspect after she was spotted arguing with Jake just hours before his death. Mac knows she didn’t do it, but she does recognize the weapon—her brother Derrick’s fishing knife.
 
Mac’s only experience with murder investigations is limited to the cozy mysteries she reads with her local book group, the Cozy Capers. So to clear her name—and maybe her brother’s too—Mac will have to summon help from her Cozy Capers co-investigators and a library’s worth of detectives’ tips and tricks. For a small town, Westham is teeming with possible killers, and this is one mystery where Mac is hoping for anything but a surprise ending . . .

Ratings and reviews

First in Series Cozy on Cape Cod This is a very good mystery. It is the first in a series from back in 2018, but I have just now read it. The mystery is good, but as with all cozies, the clues just drop into the hands of the amateur sleuths as they break the crime wide open. Unlike some cozies, this one does not drown the reader in details or swamp the reader with one main thing. Our heroine runs a bicycle rental shop, her beau is a baker, her best friend is a candy maker, her Dad is a pastor and her mom is an astrologist. Now that is all over the map! The only reason that I do not read more from this author or her alter ego, Edith Maxwell, is that she just has to get on her soapbox about something in every book. It was not too bad this time, she got her rant out in one paragraph. There have been books where her spiel becomes woven into the fabric of the story. I won this print copy at a FaceBook party some time ago. I recommend this book to all who enjoy 'soft' mysteries.

About the author

Maddie Day is the Agatha Award– and Macavity Award–nominated author of the Cozy Capers Book Club Mystery series, the Country Store Mysteries, and the Cece Barton Mysteries, as well as other series written under the name Edith Maxwell. A member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, she contributes monthly to KillerCharacters.com and belongs to The Wickeds, a group of six bestselling authors who blog at WickedAuthors.com. Day lives with her beau and two elderly cats north of Boston, though she knows both Indiana and Cape Cod intimately. She is a talented amateur chef and gardener and can be found online at MaddieDayAuthor.com.