Lost and Fondue by Avery AamesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the second book in the Cheese Shop Mystery Series by Avery Aames. Have to say that this one held more depth in the mystery and I enjoyed it to the end.
I love the family cheese shop, the information and cheese and wine in the book is fun, especially the wine, but I enjoy the cheese too, and the local craftsmanship of the area, The whole town is like a meca for small local farms in all kinds of services from cheese to honey to wine. It sounds like a place you would want to visit.
The characters are first-rate. Cousin Michael and his budding relationship with Meredith hits a snap when ex-wife Slyvie shows up in town, determined to take her twins back. It's really one thing after another with that gal! Then there is the bedding relationship between Jordan and Charlotte, and can she really fall for a man who keeps everything in his past a secret? Then there are the lesser characters, Rebecca the former Amish child that now works for Charlotte, who has a budding relationship with Ipo, the local bee farmer. And of course the once nerdy computer tech high schooler that Charlotte hired who has blossomed into a wrestler and has his eyes on a classmate.
It is so fun to be invited into their lives and to see how things progress and move.
The mystery this time revolves around the old Zeigler Wine farm, which is being restored into a community college, and the legend of a treasure that old man Ziegler buried before he went mad, has all kinds of people coming into town to take a look around the place, only to have a murder occur at the gala event! The suspects are in the dozens and the twists and turns it takes before we finally get to the real who-done-it is amazing. A well-crafted story that kept my interest right to the end.
Book three in the series is Clobbered b y Camembert and I am looking forward to it, and unearthing more about Charlotte and her life.
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