It Takes Two to Mango

by Carrie Doyle

Overview

FIRST BOOK IN A BRAND-NEW ISLAND COZY MYSTERY SERIES

It's all fun in the sun until there's a murder in paradise

Looking for an escape to the Caribbean? Check out this new series:

Great beach read
Perfect for fans of Ellery Adams and Vicki Delany
For readers of mysteries set in paradise

After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decides she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps—what she needs is a dramatic change of scenery. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island.

However, paradise isn't as perfect as it seems: the slow pace of island life, the language barrier, and a cutthroat office rival make Plum question leaving her old life behind. But when a client is found dead in the jacuzzi of Casa Mango—a property Plum manages—she knows she's really in a jam. With a killer loose on the island Plum will have to deal with a stonewalling police chief, a string of baffling clues, and a handsome Director of Security to solve this deadly case!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728232331
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Series:	Trouble in Paradise! , #1
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	124,290
Product dimensions:	4.60(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Carrie Doyle is the author of the Hamptons Murder Mysteries. Formerly an editor at Harper’s Bazaar and Harper’s Bazaar Russia, she currently lives in New York City.

Elizabeth Cottle is an experienced narrator and stage actress. Having earned her bachelor’s degree in communication arts and musical theatre from Ohio Northern University, she is a veteran of more than thirty productions. Recognized for Excellence in Acting by the Ohio Community of Theatre Association, she has a wide variety of performing experience outside of the stage, including singing with a jazz orchestra, filming commercials, and doing improv. She currently resides in Sunnyside, New York.

Editorial Reviews

"Tempestuous and tenacious, amateur sleuth, Plum Lockhart, will storm in and steal readers' hearts." - Bree Baker, author of the Seaside Cafe Mysteries

From the Publisher

2021-03-31
Doyle throws a fashionable, high-maintenance Manhattan editor into a publicity job on a fictional Caribbean island. You’d never guess what happens next.

Tossed out of her job at Travel and Respite Magazine minutes after she’s fired artistic director Gerald Hand, Plum Lockhart, unable to find anything worthy of her gifts or salary demands near home, deigns to accept an offer from Jonathan Mayhew she’d originally scorned: to run the publicity department (read: hawk the properties) for his villa rental agency headquartered in Las Frutas Resort on sunny Paraiso. The expectations on both sides are utterly unreasonable, and neither of Jonathan’s other staffers, rival agent Damián Rodriguez or office manager Lucia, is much help. Despite repeated warnings from Lucia to honor Jonathan’s edict and rent each villa to a single family, Plum, desperate to make her mark, rents a place to Jason Manger, who’s about to be married, and his two groomsmen, Deepak Gupta and Nicholas Macpherson. The next morning, Macpherson’s found dead outside the villa—and to add insult to injury, he’s not even the same person who identified himself as Macpherson when he picked up the keys. Luckily, Plum has had the foresight to drink herself into an uncharacteristically unbuttoned meet-cute with Las Frutas security chief Juan Kevin Muñoz shortly before she needed his professional services. Since Capt. Diaz of the local police stolidly maintains that “nothing sinister happens in Paraiso,” it falls to Plum and Juan Kevin to sort out the modest mystery en route to rehabilitating Plum’s professional reputation.

Nondescript suspects, scant clues, and a heroine who’s not easy to like. Great weather, though.

Kirkus Reviews