Through the Grinder (Coffeehouse Mystery Series #2)

by Cleo Coyle

Overview

Business is booming at Clare Cosi's Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare's life.

Now Clare will risk her heart--and her life--to follow the killer's trail to the bitter end.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425197141
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/05/2004
Series:	Coffeehouse Mystery Series , #2
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	88,255
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

CLEO COYLE is a pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. Both are New York Times bestselling authors of The Coffeehouse Mysteries, now celebrating over ten years in print. Alice and Marc are also bestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for Lucasfilm, NBC, Fox, Disney, Imagine, and MGM. They live and work in New York City, where they write independently and together, including the nationally bestselling Haunted Bookshop Mysteries.

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
When Clare Cosi returned to New York City to manage the historic Village Blend coffeehouse, she forgot what a grind the Big Apple's dating scene could be. Between juggling her grueling schedule and dealing with infrequent and always inconvenient visits from her handsome but impossible-to-live-with ex-husband (who owns an equal share of the apartment over the shop where she lives), it's a wonder Clare manages to date at all.

Right now, the romantic situation is even more complicated, because Clare has decided to check out the dating services her daughter Joy is using…by trying them herself. As she moves from dark and dangerous on-line hookups to the fast-paced "power meets" at the Cappuccino Connection upstairs in her own coffeehouse, Clare gets more and more steamed about the bitter blend of losers, geeks, and freaks that seem to be the mainstays of the dating menu for her and her beloved daughter. Out of all the guys she's met, she's only found one strong yet mellow one who really appreciates her…and shares her love of fine coffee.

But caffeine and romantic frustration aren't the only things making customers and staff of the Village Blend jittery lately. Clare is determined to find out whether the seemingly unrelated deaths of several recent customers are truly suicides or accidents…or if something dark, dangerous, and deadly is brewing for the Village Blend. Cleo Coyle's Coffee House Mystery series (which got off to such a potent start last fall with On What Grounds) builds strength in Through the Grinder with a delightfully robust and complex plot enhanced by richly drawn characters. Sue Stone

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