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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2589 KP) rated The Rocky Road to Ruin in Books

Jul 28, 2021

Murder Served Ice Cold

Riley Rhodes has returned home to Penniman, Connecticut, for the funeral of her best friend’s mother. After the service, she sees that Caroline and her brother, Mike, are fighting over what to do with the property that the two of them were left, including Udderly Delicious, the ice cream shop where Riley worked as a teen. The next morning, Riley finds Mike dead. Knowing that Caroline will be a prime suspect, Riley tries to figure out what happened. Can she do it?

Riley has a fun background for an amateur sleuth – CIA librarian. And yet this is definitely still a cozy, and the warmth pulled me in right away. This book has a bit of a bittersweet vibe. We get the wonderful characters and setting we love in a cozy, but the beginning is appropriately somber. It really works well. The pacing was a little uneven in the middle, but the book had a strong beginning and ending that make up for it. I had a hard time putting the book down the closer I got to the climax. There is more than enough talk to ice cream to make you drool, and two recipes inspired by the more creative contributions are in the back of the book. Now’s the time to enjoy this debut. Me? I’ll be having a second helping of ice cream while I wait for the sequel.

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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated 22 Jump Street (2014) in Movies

Jun 6, 2019

22 Jump Street (2014)

2014 | Action, Comedy, Crime

7.2

(27 Ratings)

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With Hill and Tatum reprising their roles as undercover cops the action is entertaining and the humour is sharp. Ice cube has a bigger role (0 more)

Unfortunately the sequel is basically a remake of the first as Hill and Tatum are cops undercover as students. (0 more)

A sequel as good as the first