I selected this book for the Calendar of Crime Challenge. It is a culinary cozy mystery that was published in 2012. I have not read any book in the series before and had no expectations, either good or bad, for the book. Unfortunately, I didn't like it much.
The story opens on St. Patrick's Day with sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons making pies for a customer of their bakery, A Little Taste of Heaven. After receiving a call from their brother Brandon, they leave the shop and meet him at the bar where he works, RJ's. When they arrive Brandon shows them the dead body of Mike Sweeney, a local business owner. He found the body when he came into work that morning. The boss shows up shortly thereafter and calls the police but continues to plan on opening the bar for his best business day of the year. Bernie and Libby promise their brother that they will look into the death.
It initially was difficult to figure out the relationships between the characters. The story assumes that you know the backstory from earlier novels in the series. Also, the dialogue between the sisters was so mundane I didn't know why it was part of the story. Another problem that I had was that there was no catering job that the sisters were involved with. The title assumes that a catered event is part of the plot. The only part of the novel about the March holiday is that the murder took place on St. Patrick's Day. No clues involved the holiday. I wonder whether the author wrote a generic story and later gave it a holiday title.
Alot of things didn't add up about this novel. Since this is the first Isis Crawford book I have read I won't be reading her in the future. 2 out of 5 stars.
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