Barista Jen Hanby has been keeping a few secrets from her
co-workers. The first being that the homeless man that she
takes coffee and a pastry to on a regular bases is her
father, and the second is her hand doesn't itch because she
has eczema; it's because she gets messages from her spirit
guide. Jen's hand, affectionately known as the hand of doom
or HOD, is never wrong, so when she gets a message saying
your boyfriend is cheating on you with your half sister, she
knows it's true.
The real trouble begins when Jen goes to her hated half
sister, Misty's, apartment and discovers her dead body.
Things aren't looking so great when Jen becomes suspect
number one but they become even worse when her homeless
father turns into the prime suspect. Jen is determined to
clear both her and her father's name, but in order to do
that, she is going to have to learn how to control HOD,
instead of it always controlling her.
I have been a fan of Wendy Roberts' since her Ghost Dusters
series came out, so there was no way I was going to miss
reading GROUNDS TO KILL. This fun, quirky mystery moves at a
great pace and is full of interesting characters. The
mystery behind Misty's killer took a bit of a backseat for
me in relation to everything else that was going on. I was
more invested in Jen's antics and the relationships she has
with the people around her. I did get into the who-done-it
mood towards the end of the book and was delightfully
surprised to discover I was not able to figure out who the
killer was. I always love it when a book is able to surprise
you. If you love a good mystery full of interesting
characters and a lot of coffee references, you're going to
love GROUNDS TO KILL.
Barista Jen Hamby's coworkers give her a hard time for
bringing coffee and pastries to a homeless man who sits
outside her café—but she has a secret. The scruffy man is
her father.
She's also hiding the little matter of why her palm itches.
But how can she explain that her hand has a mind of its own
and writes messages from the beyond? Right. That'll get her
Employee of the Month.
When she finds herself scrawling your boyfriend is cheating
on you! to herself on the bathroom mirror, she immediately
dumps the guy. But then his little fling—who just happens
to be her half sister—turns up dead, and suddenly Jen's
homeless father is the prime suspect.
Jen knows he is being framed and must take matters into her
own hands to protect him. But will anyone believe that the
crazy old man is innocent? Or that his spirit-writing
daughter holds the truth
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