Up to No Gouda by Linda Reilly

 




Synopsis:

Back in Balsam Dell to heal after the death of her husband, Carly Hale is finally pursuing her lifelong dream—opening Carly's Grilled Cheese Eatery. After only five months, business is booming as Vermont vacationers and townspeople alike flock to lunch on her Party Havartis and other grilled cheese concoctions. All but Lyle Bagley, Carly's one-time high school boyfriend and now town bully who just bought the building that houses her eatery and wants Carly out. After a muenster of a fight, Carly's forced to put her nose to the rind and find a solution to keep her business afloat.

That is...until Lyle is discovered dead behind the dumpster of Carly's shop, and one of her employees becomes the prime suspect. In order to save her eatery and prove her friend's innocence, Carly must sleuth out the killer before she's the one who gets grilled.



Review:



I've chosen to read this book because its cover is just too cute, and fortunately the story is a good, intriguing one too.

Up To No Gouda is the first book in a new series written by Linda Reilly, it's the first time I've read one of her works and I was easily caught into the web of episodes and characters she wrote.

Carly Hale went back to Balsam Dell after her husband died in an accident. Here she decided to open her dream restaurant, a grilled cheese eatery. The few months since she opened looks promising and she has high expectations for the Summer season, or better known as the tourists season, until the new owner of the building where she has the eatery comes in and tells her she has to leave. Carly is dejected but she tries to think to a plan B. When the owner is found dead in the alley behind her restaurant she diecides to investigate about it to take suspicion off herself.

I enjoyed this story, the plot and the mystery were well thought and delivered, I've adored to find all the clues and to try to solve it. The characters are well-crafted and relatable. I particularly liked how the author gave to our heroine a sad past story and how Carly showed her strong personality, not giving up, througout the book.

I can't wait to go back to Balsam Dell and have a cheese toast with Carly again.




Release Date: 01.25.2022


















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