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    Butter Off Dead
    Butter Off Dead
    Butter Off Dead
    Audiobook9 hours

    Butter Off Dead

    Written by Leslie Budewitz

    Narrated by Rebecca Mitchell

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    About this audiobook

    In an attempt to woo tourists to Jewel Bay and cheer up the townies, Erin Murphy, manager of the specialty local foods market known as the Merc, is organizing the First Annual Food Lovers' Film Festival, filled with classic foodie flicks and local twists on favorite movie treats. But when her partner in planning, painter Christine Vandeberg, is found dead only days before the curtain rises, Erin suspects someone is attempting to stop the films from rolling.

    To make matters worse, Nick-Erin's brother and Christine's beau-has top billing on the suspect list. Convinced her brother is innocent and determined that the show must go on, Erin has to find who's really to blame before Nick gets arrested or the festival gets shut down. But the closer she gets to the killer, the more likely it becomes that she'll be the next person cut from the program . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 14, 2017
    ISBN9781541472105
    Butter Off Dead
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    Leslie Budewitz

    Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, great mysteries, and the Northwest in two cozy mystery series, the Spice Shop Mysteries, set in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries, set in NW Montana. She also writes moody suspense under the pen name Alicia Beckman. Leslie is the winner of three Agatha Awards—2013 Best First Novel for DEATH AL DENTE, the first Food Lovers' Village mystery; 2011 Best Nonfiction, and 2018 Best Short Story, for “All God’s Sparrows,” her first historical fiction. A past president of Sisters in Crime and a former board member of Mystery Writers of America, she lives and cooks in NW Montana.

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    • 5/5
      fun and easy to listen to, this is the perfect series to have on in the background while I work in the office!
    • 4/5
      In our third visit to Jewel Bay, we find them hosting "The Food Lovers' Film Festival". The are planning on showing movies like Chocolat and Ratatouille. Sounds like a lot of fun until Christine, the originator of the idea, ends up dead. She also happens to be the girlfriend/fiancee of Erin's brother Nick. Erin’s brother, Nick is hiding something and it is making him look mighty guilty. Erin knows he is lying, so not only is she trying to prove his innocence but also find out why, who is he protecting. We also meet some high school students, specifically Zayda, who have volunteered to help with festival. She is definitely hiding something. What does she know? How did her earing end up under the dead body?

      Leslie Budewitz knows how to get you invested in a story, her characters. She writes them like they are your friends and you want them to be okay. I wanted to encourage Erin to keep looking, but be very careful. When things start to go wrong at the film festival (porno chocolate movie instead of Chocolat) as well as vandalism, you know that she is coming close to figuring it all out. Of course, she is still running the Merc, and her mother is not very happy with her running off all the time.
      It was nice to finally find out more about Sally, the town grump. She became much more human in this story and actually had me feeling sorry for her by the end of the story.

      This was a well written, well plotted, well paced story. It kept me captivated from the first page until the very last. It was filled with many twists and clues, that left me guessing whodunit until the final reveal. Erin ran her butt off in this story while running the Merc, running the festival, and keeping community and family members in check, all while trying to figure out who killed her friend. She was always off doing something making the story pretty fast paced. The historical mystery of her father's death is also dealt with in this story and the family finally gets some closure. A great story that I recommend to all cozy mystery lovers.
    • 4/5
      Took a while to get into it. I did end up enjoying it. I liked the winter atmosphere, and an attempt to portray a summer tourist town in the winter.
    • 3/5
      Erin Murphy is helping Christine Vandeburg with the First Annual Jewel Bay Film Festival for the locals. Erin is going to meet Christine at her studio and finds Zayda George, a local high school girl involved with the festival, sitting on the steps, looking shocked. When she finally enters the studio she finds Christine mortally injured by a gunshot, and calls the police.But who killed Christine? Zayda or her brother Nick, who said he was tracking wolves but instead was closer than he admitted? When it looks as if Nick is the main suspect - it turns out he’s inherited everything Christine owned - then Erin knows she needs to find the true killer before her brother is wrongfully imprisoned.But it doesn’t help that he won’t talk to anyone about where he’s been or what he’s been doing and that the only other suspect is teenaged Zayda. So Erin takes it upon herself the to find a killer before a killer finds her....This is the third book in the series, and as such, is a bit of an improvement over the first two, but I still wasn't very impressed. The book was an easy read - I finished it in a few hours, but there are still things that bother me. For one, the way Erin eats, she should weigh over 300 pounds by now. She's always eating pasta and candy/cookies, etc.; and drinking - a lot. Liquor adds calories. Paninis are fattening. Lattes. I've never read that the woman ate a salad (sans dressing) to counter all the fattening food she eats.I also still don't get why she calls her mom Fresca (not to mention it's the name of a soft drink and I can't help thinking about that every time she says the name). I'm pretty sure everyone in town knows they're related, and who cares if the tourists don't? WHAT is the big deal about using Fresca instead of just calling her mom? I don't see it. I also don't get why she needs to investigate murders. She seems to think that she's more perceptive than the police. I get the fact that cozies are about amateur sleuths, but Erin rather turns me off by insisting that she can't be with a man who won't let her poke around in murder investigations. What man would be comfortable with his wife/girlfriend doing so if it put her life in danger? Anyway, the book was interesting, just not intriguing. We do learn a little more about her brother in this book, and find out the answer to a question that's been plaguing the family for years. All in all, a nice little cozy that's not too involved, and I will read the next in the series.
    • 3/5
      To get tourists to Jewel Bay and cheer up the townspeople, Erin Murphy, manager of the specialty local food market, is organizing the first annual food lover's film festival. When her planning partner, painter Christine Vandeberg, is found dead only days before the opening, Erin suspects someone is attempting to stop the festival. To make matters worse Erin's brother, Nick, who was Christine's boyfriend, is the prime suspect. Erin has to find out who the real killer is. The closer she gets to the killer the more likely to be the next victim.Great book for all the cozy mystery lovers.
    • 5/5
      First, a thank you to the author for starting this book off with a character list. Even right down to the pets! It was lots of help. I’ve enjoyed the Food Lovers’ Mystery series since book one, DEATH AL DENTE. So, when I saw the cover and read the blurb for this book, BUTTER OFF DEAD, I couldn’t wait to get this book in my hands. It was more than worth the wait!Author Leslie Budewitz filled this story with twists and turns that had me on the edge of my seat, holding my book in a death grip, easing my hold only long enough to turn the pages. This was an expertly written mystery, from the sad death scene to the surprising and exciting reveal. I had no idea who to suspect as the murderer! As with the first two books, the characters in this series are still wonderfully charming and quirky. It was fun getting to learn even more about them. And I loved idea of the Food Lovers’ Film Festival. Such a fun idea to go with this series. I’d like to see come back in a future installment. It’s no surprise at all Leslie Budewitz won an Agatha Award for book two, CRIME RIB. She knows how to serve up a satisfyingly delicious story that fills your senses with delight and leaves you hungry for more. And check out the back of the book for The Food Lovers’ Film Festival Guide to Food and Drink, with 8 yummy recipes!