Chrystle Fiedler

Dr. Willow McQuade is a naturalist, and she's come to visit her Aunt Claire, who owns Nature's Way Market and Cafe in Greenport, Long Island. Claire tells Willow that she's working on a formula called Fresh Face, which will make her money. Then Claire receives a telephone call she wants to take privately, Willow leaves; but Claire calls her and when Willow can't understand what she's saying, she returns to find Claire dead, and smells almonds in her mouth. She calls the police, and tells them that she thinks Claire was murdered.

The police don't know whether to believe her, but they suspect her of the crime, and tell her not to leave. Then Willow discovers that she's inherited everything Claire owned, and makes an instant enemy of Claire's employee, Janice, who thinks it should have come to her. Then the "accidents" start to happen, and Willow knows she's being targeted, but by whom? The police think she's guilty and won't look anywhere else, and refuse to believe anyone is 'out to get her.' So, with the help of a policeman who's on disability, Claire decides to look into the matter herself...and hope she can survive to find a killer...

Okay, I really tried to find something good about this book. But honestly, it reads like a manual for a health food store. If you removed everything that was telling people how to cure their ailments, this would probably be about forty pages long. That's it.

Plus, the detectives were rotten people. They never took her seriously, and even went so far as to make fun of her and threaten Jackson. What kind of cops does things like that? They never investigated any of the things that were happening to her and her shop, all because they were convinced she killed her aunt for the money. Well, if she did, how much sense would it make to destroy the things she supposedly killed her aunt for?

Let me tell you something else: if I was having heart problems, I'd trust a doctor far more than natural remedies, but probably only because I wanted to live. The fact that Claire wanted her mother to take herbs instead seemed ludicrous to me.

At any rate, I slogged through this information packet hoping to find something interesting enough about a murder, but by the time the book ended, I just didn't care anymore. I won't be reading any more from this author. Sorry.… (mere)

I have never enjoyed a cozy mystery as much as I enjoyed this one. I wish I would have started this series years ago! Willow is a wonderful holistic character, and I love that she is natural remedy inclined. The murder in this book made me sad, as it did all the characters, it was one that we all seemed to like. But good and bad have to die in the name of a good mystery.

The entire review and interview can be found at: rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://bibliophile.reviews/book-review/cozy/dandelion-dead… (mere)