Red Hot Deadly Peppers by Paige Shelton

Red Hot Deadly Peppers

by Paige Shelton

Becca Robbins is happy to help research a large farmers’ market and tourist trading post—until she has to switch her focus to finding a killer… 

Becca is in Arizona, spending some time at Chief Buffalo’s Trading Post and its neighboring farmers’ market to check out how the two operate together. She’s paired with Nera, a Native American woman who sells the most delicious pecans—right next to a booth with the hottest peppers money can buy. 

When Nera asks her to deliver some beads to Graham, a talented jewelry maker inside Chief Buffalo’s, Becca is grateful to get a break from the heat. Little does she realize that the heat’s about to get cranked up even more—because Graham has been murdered, and she’s the one who finds his body. She soon discovers that Graham was Nera’s cousin, and that her uncle was recently killed too, after receiving a threatening note. Becca begins to think the murders may have something to do with the family’s hot pepper business. Now she must find the killer, before she’s the one in the hot seat…

Reviewed by MurderByDeath on

2 of 5 stars

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I'm using the GR definition of two stars here: it was ok. Becca is in Arizona, researching another farmer's market and stumbles across a murdered man. She get's sucked into the mystery and investigation a bit unwittingly.

The story is a light, quick read but I think I prefer the novella's that add a bit of backstory, or fill in a bit of history for one or more of the characters and their relationships with each other. This one was more an "out-of-time" short story. Still, I don't consider it at all a waste of time to have read it and if anyone likes the series, I wouldn't steer them away from this.

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