Name: Tragic Toppings
ISBN: 9780312541095

Jessica Beck

When one of her regular customers goes missing, her ex-husband disappears and she finds a corpse in the park, donut shop owner Suzanne Hart soon discovers that donut-making can be a dangerous business. Original. 135,000 first printing.

A Donut Shop Mystery

Tragic Toppings

This is more like a 2.5 star rating than a 3. Perhaps the donut shop is becoming too sweet for my taste when it comes to fluffy relationship stuff.

This starts with the disappearance of two characters. One is found alive and the other, dead. Then it goes into a murder mystery that could have been so many things if Beck stopped harping on the relationships for the Hart women and made more of an effort on the mystety. Too much just didn't need to be there or was rather long and drawn out. I was skipping sections of conversation between Suzanne and her mother because I could predict what was being said. It's a cute story overall, but maybe too cute.

Also, I'm not a fan of how she continually says how important the shop is to her, but then drops it in the next paragraph to play clue. I was not only hoping the drama was sabatoge, but also that she had to drop the mystery and go to town trying to fix it. But neither of those things happened. It just makes it hard to believe her character when she does stuff like this.

Tragic Toppings A Donut Shop Mystery