The coffeehouse is bursting with dates, thanks to a new hot dating app. The coffeehouse is known for great coffee and treats, helping it become a popular meeting place. A confrontation between a woman and her companion involving a gun scares away present and future customers. It doesn't matter that the gun was loaded with blanks and no one is injured.
A video of the incident goes viral, leaving Clare concerned about her customer base. She's right to worry, the number of customers drops significantly. The app's management requests a meeting with Clare hoping to salvage both their reputations. Clare's not impressed with the management team, but they do have a plan to gain back their customers. But that's not all Clare's concerned about. The more she learns about the app, the more she's concerned for the users. She quickly realizes that the victim isn't who he says he is and that he charms women, sleeps with them, and then ghosts them. When a woman turns up dead in the water, Clare believes he could be responsible for her murder. Clare's determined to uncover the truth about the murder and the dating app, even if she has to go undercover online to do it.
Clare solves her 17th mystery in SHOT IN THE DARK by Cleo Coyle. As always, the Coffeehouse Mystery series is mouthwateringly good from the food shared in the story to the recipes provided in the back of the book. This long running series engages readers with the personal plots of the characters, keeping them coming back for more.
Clare's fiancΓ© is gone for most of the book. Misunderstandings and miscommunications create rocky relationships throughout the cast of characters. The dating app provides a fresh way to look at feminism and #metoo in the dating world.
A new smartphone dating game turns the Village Blend into
a hookup hot spot, until one dark night, when a gunshot
leaves a dead body behind and the landmark coffeehouse
becomes the center of a whole new scene--a crime scene.
As Village Blend manager Clare Cosi attempts to finalize
a date for her wedding, her ex-husband becomes addicted
to making dates through smartphone swipes. Clare has
mixed feelings about these quickie matchups happening in
her coffeehouse. Even her octogenarian employer is
selecting suitors by screenshot! But business is booming,
and Clare works hard to keep the espresso shots flowing.
Then one dark night, another kind of shot leaves a dead
body for her to find.
The corpse is a successful entrepreneur who became
notorious for his "hit it and quit it" behavior: prowling
for women on dating apps, then devastating his conquests
with morning-after insults. Though the NYPD quickly
arrests one of his recent victims, Clare finds reason to
believe she's been framed.
Now, with the help of her ex and crew of quirky baristas,
Clare starts "swiping" through suspects in her own shop,
determined to find the real killer before another shot
rings out.
Includes a bang-up menu of tempting recipes.
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