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One Poison Pie

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Mia had returned to Magic Springs with plans to open her own catering business. When planning a party, the hostess is being very difficult. When the hostess ends up dead, Mia becomes a suspect. Mia's grandmother is best friends with the murder victim and stand to inherit her property, could that be a motive. When some long lost relatives arrive in Magic Springs just before the party, they also become suspects. There are a lot of people to investigate, and some twists that cause the investigators to go in various directions.

Mia jumps in to help investigate and with the help of Trent, a local businessman, she makes some inroads into the investigation. I like how Trent's and Mia's relationship is blossoming. They are friends now, but I can definitely see a romance down the road. There is a lot of action and Mia is in danger a few times, but Trent seems to be there whenever she needs help. There was also another mystery involving Mia's home and someone getting in. This gave me the creeps as the idea that someone breaks into my home while I am asleep is one of my fears. The secondary characters of Mia's grandmother and her ex-boyfriend's sister round out this sister nicely. I look forward to seeing more of them in the future. Overall this is a well-plotted cozy mystery, with great characters and a wonderful storyline. Exactly what I love about Lynn Cahoon's books. I look forward to more books in the Kitchen Witch series.

Angie Hickman did a great job with the narration. She gave Mia and the other characters their own identity with her voices. She added excitement to the story using her expression and tone. I enjoyed listening to this book and feel confident that I will enjoy books Angie Hickman narrates. I was gifted a copy of this book upon request. The rating and opinions shared are my own.
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I listened to this one on audio.    Mia  moves to Magic Springs to start over with her life.  She starts her business  to provide a gourmet dining service.  However, something happens that causes Mia to start trying to figure out what has happen in her new town.  The residents of this town are also interested in solving this murder.  A good long cozy mystery.  
I appreciate that the book was long and not just a short novel.
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If you like a little magic in your cozy mysteries, this is a delightful start to a new series. Mia Malone is opening up her catering business in Magic Springs, a town that is home to many magical folks. This is the first full length novel of the new series, it started with a novella called Chilli Cauldron Curse, which unfortunately I didn’t know about. I may go back & read it to clear a few things up. However I still think you can read this book & get along ok. I liked Mia quite a bit, she’s smart but still grounded. I’m enjoying the supporting characters very much. I also love any tidbits about the magical towns history or secrets, I’m looking forward to learning more. This is a very strong start to a new series, it’s fun & descriptive & I was able to tear through it quickly. Cant wait for book two!
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This is a delightful cozy mystery. The story is about kitchen witchery and second chances.I had a lot of fun listening to it
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One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon is a delightful listen.  I so enjoyed this culinary story.  The author wrote intriguing characters with a little extra.  I love it when people get second chances in life, and this story has that.  The imagery in the book was well done too.  The narration by Angie Hickman added to the book. She adds the right emotions and brings the characters to life with her voice.  Thank you #NetGalley for this great listen.
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One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon was my first novel by her. I have to say I really enjoyed it! I had the pleasure of listening to the audiobook and found myself looking for excuses to go somewhere so that I could listen to it uninterrupted! One Poison Pie is about Mia, who moves to Magic Springs where her grandma is so that she can start over after a nasty break up. She buys an old school to turn it into a catering business and a cooking school. However, when her very first client ends up dead before she can cater the event, the local community looks at her in suspicion. With the help of her magical grandmother, the cute (and also magical) grocery store owner, and her chef assistant in training, Mia must figure out what happened so all of her dreams don't crumble to the ground. The story is a  mix of magic, fun, suspense, and honesty all rolled into one. I honestly didn't know who the killer was until the end. I kept going over names in my head of who I thought it could be and I was wrong each time. And, the book ends with a new mystery fast approaching, so there will be more magic in the future. 
Thanks to #NetGalley for the chance to listen to the book. The narrator also did a good job! 
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One Poison Pie is the first book in a new paranormal cozy mystery series by the author Lynn Cahoon.

Mia Malone a hearth/kitchen witch moves back to grandmother's town of Magic Springs in Idaho to start over after she finds herself dumped and her cooking business taken over by her ex-fiance. Hoping to impress everyone in town with her new gourmet food delivery business with recipes with her magic touch, her first catering job turns deadly when the client Adele is found stabbed to death with one of Mia's knife making her a prime suspect. Along the way, Mia comes to realise that she and her grandmother are not the only witches in Magic Springs, with a lot of residents belonging to different witch/warlords covens. There was not much magic in this book and I hope that it will be a bigger aspect in the upcoming books. 

I received the audio version of this book and had a pleasant time listening to it. The narrator Angie Hickman's voice was clear and it was easy for me to follow the story.

My thanks to NetGalley, the publisher Tantor Audio and the author for the audio Arc of the book. The audiobook was released on 26th January 2021.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐✨💫
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The characters were delightful and the story was fast-paced. I thought the narrator was just OK and didn't really enjoy all of her voices, one character, in particular, was especially grating. While I enjoyed most of the story, I do wish the magic aspect was more prominent. I felt that was too much in the background and often forgot they are witches.
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I love finding new cozy mysteries that I can dig into especially if they are part of a series. Lynn Cahoon and her new Kitchen Witch series is just that. Mia Malone may be a kitchen witch but she is also someone who values family and hard work. She lives in Magic Springs Idaho and is starting her own business. I love the relationship with her Gran. I listened to the audiobook as a NetGalley ARC and halfway through I was trying to find out when the next book would be available. Lucky me this year so I will be watching!! Mia finds herself on the wrong side of a murder investigation but she has support from so many people around her. I love the relationships and how I just felt like a part of this town. So glad I was able to listen to this. Great new cozy series.
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This book initially appealed to me because of the paranormal theme and I thought getting in on a series from the get go would be perfect. I found  I struggled to really care about anything that happened.  The kitchen witch topics were very light fare and I never knew which were the good guy's out of the myriad of male characters. The female lead made choices that seemed glaringly unsound.  But it did have some good elements which encouraged me to finish the book.  The mystery theme was well done and I personally didn't predict where the story would lead.  All in all the story was enough to lead me to the finish and likely will try book two when published.
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After listening to and loving another cozy mystery a couple of days ago (Dead and Breakfast), I was excited to dive into this one. Unfortunately, I quickly found out that I wasn't as interested and hooked by this one. If you want me to love your book, the beginning need to hook me and to keep my attention. I was immediately connected to the characters in the book I mentioned but One Poison Pie just didn't work for me sadly. I had a hard time focusing on what was going on because of it. It's a bit disappointing because it had a cute cover and an interesting premise. I'm not giving up on cozy mysteries as a whole though. Some will work for me and others won't. That's the reading experience in a nutshell. I saw plenty of positive reviews about this book so don't let my experience from stopping you to get this book if you think you'll love it!

(Thank you for letting me read and review an ARC via Netgalley)
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I absolutely adored this cozy mystery! The characters were fantastic, and Cahoon did an excellent job of weaving reality and magic together effortlessly. I cannot wait for book two! The audiobook was great. The narrator did an excellent job, and I was able to follow along easily and differentiate between the characters and their dialogue.
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I really loved this book. I really was surprised by it. Was thinking it would be more casting spells type but was pleasantly surprised by it. I would love to read more by this author
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Dumped, unemployed, & homeless, what is a kitchen witch to do but return home and open a cooking school/catering business? But Mia’s fresh start is complicated when her first customer ends up dead.

This was a cute and light story. It had a lot of things I like in cozy mysteries. Food, magic, intergenerational friendships. Mia and Christina had a great mentoring friendship going, and the friendship between Mia and her grandmother reminded me of my own.

The women were fun and unique, but none of the men characters really clicked with me. We get broad strokes for the community of Magic Springs, but everything was a little shallow. I would have liked more depth on the magic especially. There was not nearly as much use of magic in this as I expected from the summary. 

The narrator was a perfect fit for a sweet. mystery
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A fun book, a bit predictable but that didn’t take anything of the joy for me.
The characters were interesting and it was fun to get to know Magic Springs.
I'm looking forward to book 2 in the series.
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Such a good book, I would love to read more from this world.  I enjoyed the story and the mystery.  It was a great journey.  Also, I have read a ton of mystery books and didn’t guess this one!  It’s neat when a story does that! Great book thank you NetGalley for allowing me the chance to read this.
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I thought that this was good!  I have seen this author's books around for years and have always wanted to try her work.  I thought that this would be the perfect one to start with as soon as I saw it.  I was in the mood for a cozy and one involving a witch sounds especially appealing.  I found this book to be incredibly entertaining.

Mia has just moved back to Magic Springs and is just about to open a new catering business.  She is planning to provide food for a birthday party and the customer is being rather difficult.  Things get even worse when the customer is killed and people start pointing the finger at Mia.  She still needs to get her building approved to open for business and a local man, Trent, is ready to jump in and help get things done.

I had a great time with this one.  There were several different mysteries to solve in this book and they all kept me guessing.  I was never quite sure who Mia should trust and who was responsible for the crimes.  There was plenty of excitement in this book and times when I wondered if Mia would be able to stay safe.  I did think that the paranormal aspects of the story were more toned down than I would have expected but there is a bit sprinkled throughout the story.  

Angie Hickman did a fantastic job with the narration.  I thought that she did a fantastic job bringing life to Mia's character.  I thought that she added a lot of excitement to the story and I liked the variety of voices that she used for the various characters.  She has a very pleasant voice, and I found this book easy to listen to for hours at a time.  I feel like her narration added to my overall enjoyment of the story.

I would recommend this book to others.  I thought that this was a fun cozy mystery with fantastic characters.  I definitely plan to read more of Lynn Cahoon's work in the future.

I received a digital review copy of this audiobook from Tantor Audio via NetGalley.
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Definitely a great reading and an excellent story. An original take on a witch cozy that makes good sense as well having excellent entertainment value. Mia is a character with depth while at the same time she is very relatable with a wonderful dream and a horrible ex-boyfriend. I enjoyed this so much that I went back and read the novella prequel that leads Mia to her new home and her new business venture. More than one mystery in this story and a very good cliffhanger of an ending. I look forward to checking out the next installment and maybe even getting myself a kitchen witch to look over me while I cook.
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*received for free from netgalley for honest review* Wasnt bad, was overall a good cozy mystery, there was small things i didnt care for (mostly when talking about the "young lady" who they also call a teen, childish, and so on, always love the "only immature people have facial piercings" trope, as someone who had them as a teen ive totally never get tired of reading it *super sarcastic btw*.
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After losing her long term boyfriend and her job, Mia Malone, a kitchen witch, decided it was time for a fresh start, bringing her to Magic Spring, Idaho. She bought an old school where she lived with her roommate Christina, whom also happens to be the sister of her ex, and started her own catering business called Mias' Morsels. Her grandmother, now close by, had even set her up with her first client, also one of her Grans best friends. Unfortunately, the morning of the event, tragedy struck. The body of her first client was found. On top of that, Mia became the prime suspect. This theory doesn't sit well with Mia, as she now seems to become the next target as things suddenly start to happen to her. With her new friend and possible love interest Trent by her side, Mia is bound and determined to not only prove her innocence, but catch whomever is now suddenly after her. Can Mia get to the bottom of this before she ends up being the next victim? Is there any way her business is going to stand a chance and finally take off despite all the negative hits towards it? 
This was an audio book read. I really enjoyed this and the narrator did an excellent job. I really enjoy cozy mysteries and this one was another great read. It was a really fun book and a very easy read. This was my first read by Lynn Cahoon and it most definitely won't be the last! I read this in 2 days because I just had a hard time putting it down! Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book! I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I rate this book ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
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