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 fiancé 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.
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