The 7th installment in the Country Store mystery series. Robbie Jordon has gone back home to Santa Barbara for her high school reunion and while looking forward to meeting up with old friends and classmates. She plans to spend a week but she begins to hear rumors about her Mother’s death and that perhaps it was not of natural causes. Her Mother was an environmental activist and when someone from her same group is found dead in a similar way she begins to question what she thought and begins searching for a murderer. Another great installment in this series although she is not in her store. This series just keeps getting better.

Thank you Kensington Books and Netgalley for permitting me to read this book before publication.

Robbie (owner of Pans N Pancakes in Indiana) returns to Santa Barbara, California, for her 10-year high school reunion. She books a B&B for a week so she can catch up with friends and visit her old haunts. Her mother had died two years earlier in Santa Barbara and now Robbie heard that some townsfolk didn’t think her mother had died of natural causes. Then a friend of her mom’s and fellow protestor against a fertiziling chemical turns up dead.

Robbie can’t help but get caught up in the investigation even though the police detective tells her to stop.

I haven’t read a cozy mystery for a long time and this one was surprisingly good. This title is the seventh in the Country Store Mysteries.

Robbie is a very active person, riding a bike almost every where and not relaxing at all while on vacation. The references to what she ate and the recipes in the back of the book got my saliva going so the author did a very good job of writing about food.

The area descriptions also made me want to visit Santa Barbara. I may read more in this series because I really enjoyed this one. I recommend it to all the mystery aficionados.

This was another good installment in the Country Store series. This time Robbie is back in her hometown for her high school reunion. This gives this a good fresh approach in this book. We see new characters as Robbie sets out to solve a mystery that starts with the possibility that her mother's death was not natural. The story progresses well and the characters are interesting. The only thin I felt was lacking is that the ending felt a bit rushes with the solution of the murder and the resaons behind it.

High school reunions always seem to lead to something happening and Robbie is no exception, though with a twist involving her mom's death. Loved this installment of the series.

When Robbie Jordan returns to her home town for a high school reunion, she never expected to hear the manner of her mother's death questioned. After recovering from that bombshell, she start to ask questions...and the man who originally questioned her death, suddenly dies.
She spends her time catching up with friends and asking a lot more questions. The local detective takes her seriously after she is vetted by not only her friend from school, now a tech detective, but also the police chief from the town she now resides in. She is able to clue him in on information, he might not have had and he is able to get the answers quicker.
Ms.Day takes us to Santa Barbara, the reunion and through well described land marks. She rounds out her story with a variety of great characters.
I requested this bit of intrigue from NetGalley and recommend to any cozy lover, but of particular interest to those who are following the Country Store series. I offer my opinion gratis.

First in this series that I have read. Love the title of the book.
Nice cozy mystery.
The main character is likeable. Secondary characters were likeable too.
Wanted a sopapilla when done reading 😀 Great quick read. Wish I had read other books in series first.

Robbie Jordan heads home to Santa Barbara for her 10 year high school reunion. Connecting with old friends brings back memories of her youth and her mother. When she finds out that her mother may not have died from a brain aneurysm, Robbie speaks to a man who believes her mother was poisoned. Paul and her mother were part of an environmental group working to stop a local pesticide company from using a harmful product with negative aid effects for both humans and animals in the area and he believed that pesticide was used to kill her mother. When the man is found dead in his apartment much like her mother, Robbie presses the department to check for the toxin in his bloodstream.

While Robbie never planned to spend her vacation tracking down a killer, it seems vacation had other plans for her. While spending time catching up with her friends they also do a little sleuthing as well. But will Robbie be able to find the answers she seeks before heading back to Indiana or will she be checking out of Santa Barbara for good?

This is a great series and it was fun to have Robbie head back to home town of Santa Barbara. Maddie Day always brings her characters to life as well as the food, which you can almost smell as you are reading. Foodie cozy lovers, this series is for you! Don’t miss the recipes, they sound delicious!

This is my favorite cozy mystery series. Robie Jordan is a very likable character, well all the characters are enjoyable! I wish I could eat at her restaurant.

Kindle Copy for Review from NetGalley and Kensington Books.

I received a free, advance copy of this book and this is my unbiased and voluntary review.

It was supposed to be a few days off to spend time at a high school reunion but it would soon turn to murder. For Robbie ends up getting caught up in a rumor about her mother’s death not being of natural death as people thought.

She’ll have to sort out of the the truth and figure who wanted her environmentalist mom dead. Another delightful read.