A Deadly Danish is book 4 in Fiona Grace’s Beachfront Bakery cosy mystery series.
Once again, Ali is accused of murder after finding the body of a controversial councilman dead in his car with one of her danishes in hand. Plus troublesome her mother has shown up several days early for her visit. Ali has her hands full trying to clear her name, and keep her mother happy.
I enjoyed this book more than the previous one, but there were still issues. Note that there are spoilers ahead of you haven’t read the previous books.
Firstly, at the end of this book, Ali’s mom tells her that she’s been intercepting letters from Ali’s father for years, but in book one she had Ali’s dad declared legally dead, so how does that happen?
At the beginning of the book, Ali declares that she will solve the murder because it’s unacceptable that anyone should think she was a murderer even for a single day…yet this is the fourth time she has been accused, so I think that ship has sailed.
I was happy to see Ali finally kind of stand up for herself with her mom near the end of this book. Honestly I had started wishing someone would kill off the mom because she was so awful. I really hope the better relationship between them continues in the following books.
Ali’s love life is also still a bit of a mess, here’s hoping she gets that straightened out too.
I know I said I was giving this series a rest, but there are only two books left, and now I feel a compulsive need to see this series through.I’m off to read book 5.
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