After her divorce from an out-of-work actor, Suzanne Hart decided to pursue her passion. So she cashed in her settlement and opened up the Donut Hearts coffee shop in her North Carolina hometown. But when a dead body is dumped on the doorstep like a sack of flour, the shop becomes a crime scene, with people are dropping by for donuts and gruesome details. Soon Suzanne, who finds snooping as irresistible as donuts, is poking holes in alibis.
I'm not sure I'd read any more in this series - the writing felt very stiff and earnest, even though I could see that she was trying to write characters that weren't. The only time the writing felt natural to me was in the dialog between her and her mother - I really liked seeing the mother/daughter relationship portrayed with mutual affection and equal sniping. :) Her reasons for 'investigating' felt forced though and in the end it was a book I had to labor through.
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