What do you get when you find a dead body in the prep kitchen of a foodie channel studio? Love on the Menu by Dyann Love Barr, that's what!

This is a cozy mystery with a bit of romance and family drama thrown into the mix. But the core of this story is the deaths that are occurring at the Culinery Channel. Tilly and Jordan are thrown into the murder investigation as consultants to the police much to the investigating officer's annoyance.

I found this read entertaining, lighter than my normal crime read but sometimes you need something not so dark and twisted. I do like the cover; it sells more of the crime side of the story to me compared to its predecessor which makes the book look more of a romance novel. I'd recommend it to someone who wants to dip their toe into crime fiction.

Many thanks to Entangled Publishing LLC, Entangled Select Suspense and Netgalley for my ecopy of Love on the Menu.

You know those paranormal romance/erotica stories, where the protagonists have to have a lot of sex to save the world/mankind/universe ... well this murder mystery in a romance sauce is exactly the same and if the protagonists could get their heads out of their own adolescent problems, the "mystery" would be solved in a first couple of chapters and there would not be the following two murders.

Basically its a NA criminal romance, that sounds like YA criminal romance about "world famous" chefs who talk about food like they do not know a first thing about it and they would fail when they boil water and their favorite food is plain meat and potatoes. And our contemporary Miss Marple spends most of her time whining about hes ex boyfriends, about lying and about how hot her boyfriend is, so the criminal investigation she and her current maybe ex boyfriend should help police to solve is basically forgotten. I truly do not understand what kind of expertise could two chefs have about criminal investigation, especially when their own thoughts are all the time either about having sex with each other of about reasons why one wants to get married and other doesn't. The mystery in this book is no mystery at all, the culprit is obvious from the start.

This wasn't really a criminal mystery, it wasn't really romance novel nor erotica, there was just a bit of everything and the end result was not edible. Unfortunately it was insult to readers.