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    Murder on the Orient Espresso

    By Sandra Balzo

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    A staged caper based on Murder on the Orient Express is interrupted by a real-life killer in this mystery featuring coffee shop owner Maggy Thorsen.
     
    Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of gourmet coffeehouse Uncommon Grounds, is thrilled to be leaving behind the cold winter weather of Wisconsin for sunny South Florida. In town to attend the annual crime-writers’ conference with her beau, Sheriff Jake Pavlik, Maggy maintains that she’s just along for the ride—no amateur sleuthing involved.
     
    But Maggy must break her pledge to behave solely as a tourist when the conference’s opening night event turns out to be a re-enactment of Agatha Christie’s classic, Murder on the Orient Express. As Maggy and Jake reluctantly set off on the night train to the Everglades to solve the ‘crime’, it soon becomes clear that, just like in the original novel, nothing is quite what it seems. . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 1, 2013
    ISBN9781780104560
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    Murder on the Orient Espresso
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    Sandra Balzo

    Sandra Balzo built an impressive career as a public relations consultant before authoring the successful 'Maggy Thorsen' coffeehouse mysteries, the first of which, Uncommon Grounds, was published to stellar reviews and nominated for an Anthony and Macavity Award. She is also the author of the 'Main Street Murders' mystery series published by Severn House.

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    • 5/5
      Where to start with this book review? I'm a fan of this series, but I generally don't like 'away' books. I get attached to the hometown cast of characters; I get a picture in my head of the hometown/setting. Moving my protagonist away from all that messes up my head and forces me to concentrate harder than I'd normally have to. Not to mention learning a whole cast of characters and keeping them straight. So I was not as excited about this book as previous ones; instead of Wisconsin, it takes place in South Florida at a mystery writers 101 conference. Well, ok, I'm from South Florida, so the new setting isn't that big of a stretch. And I like the Everglades. So I picked up the book last night and dove in. I fell asleep after the first chapter, so really, I read this whole book today. The first thing I noticed was the wholly coincidental timing of my reading this book during what I'll refer to as the "GoodReads Censorship Debacle", or the GCD. I say this because a good portion of the first 1/3 to 1/2 of the book focusses on an online reviewer who is absolutely ruthless in his dissection of books (so of course he is hated/feared) and discusses self-published authors and the self-entitlement that some of them exhibit. I was chuckling quite a bit over this bit of kismet. The murder itself. Inspired. Seriously. I so want to discuss the method of discovery, but I won't. Because anyone slightly interested in reading this book should get to it honestly. I read a LOT of cozy mysteries, and Ms. Balzo should win some recognition for most creative method of body discovery/disposal. This alone is what got her the 1/2 star in my 4.5 star rating. (It only lost that last half star because there were a ton of new characters and I had a devil of a time keeping them straight in my head. Even with the alliterative device the author used - which was very clever, - I still never had a really firm picture in my head of most of the cast.) The murderer was admirably hidden in a very well crafted plot and I had not the slightest idea who the culprit was until Maggy did. The very, very end of the book was a tiny bit abrupt, but I'll just imagine that Jake and Maggy enjoyed the rest of the holiday and I'll look forward with eager anticipation to the next book in the series.
    • 5/5
      Like the espresso martini served on the Orient Espresso, this story is fun and clever. This cozy mystery is a great example of the genre. The main characters are likable, while the victim is so unlivable, the reader doesn't regret his death. Most of all, this story was fun and satisfying.
    • 5/5
      I love Sandra Balzo’s stories. One, they are a great mystery, two they are full of humor. Maggy and her sheriff boyfriend are on their way from Wisconsin to Florida to a Writers’ conference. The sheriff is going to speak on forensics at the conference. They will then board a train headed towards the Everglades with an Agatha Christy reenactment on the Orient Express. Once again Maggie and Jake find themselves in the middle of a real mystery to be solved. They must figure out who the real murderer is on the train. This is a quick and enjoyable read. She is an author I highly recommend.