"fast reading"
Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted September 2, 2013
Mystery Cozy | Mystery Amateur Sleuth
Christine Wenger has written a very delightful book. Not
only is it a great book, but in the back it includes
recipes. I read DO OR DINER in one day, just couldn't put
it
down. This is the first book in a new series. Can't wait
for the next one. I always love when I can get right into a
book, but always sad when I finish it.
We get to meet Trixie. Trixie is starting over by buying
her aunts diner. Little does she know that she will also be
investigating a murder. We also meet Ty, the deputy of the
town. Ty is also new to the area. Women are swooning
over him because of his cowboy good looks. Not only is
Trixie struggling with starting a new life, but the murder
takes place in her diner.
Christine gives you the sense that you are the one running
the diner. It is the kind of diner that all the people in a
small town visit to sit around and gossip about what is
going on in the town. Christine combines humor along with
a very cozy mystery.
There are also several other characters that are part of
this delightful story. There is the cook, Juanita and
several of the servers. The staff of waitresses are
taking in by Ty. It is pretty funny how they all just stare
at him when they are taking his order. They all have there
own language when they put in an order. Trixie has a
little bit of a hard time trying to pick up this lingo. But
she does finally pick it up. If DO OR DINE is any indication of the rest of the series by
Christine Wenger, I will be one of the first to get it.
SUMMARY
When Trixie Matkowski agrees to take over her aunt’s diner,
she pictures lakeside views and delicious comfort food in
the small town where she spent summers as a child. But the
sweet scene turns sour when someone puts murder on the menu… Trixie is in need of a fresh start away from her cheating
ex-husband, but she may be biting off more than she can chew
when she moves to upstate New York to run her family’s famed
Silver Bullet Diner. Not only is she caught off guard by the
small town’s resident heartthrob, Deputy Ty Brisco, but her
first health inspection turns into a nightmare…when the
inspector keels over in his Blue Plate Special. It seems someone made a deadly addition to an old family
recipe, and Trixie is determined to find out whodunit. But
between serving up orders and sniffing out clues, she’d
better watch her back—or her next meal might be her last. Includes recipes!
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