A review by wildflowerz76
Dead to the Last Drop by Cleo Coyle

2.0

I appear to be in the minority on this one. I've loved this series, but recently I'm not liking them nearly as well. These used to be cozy mysteries, but they aren't any more. I know they took place in NYC, but despite that, they still had the small town feel with the cast of kooky characters. NONE of those characters really showed up on this one. We've graduated from a cozy to something WAY more high level, as far as the mystery goes. Yet, the writing isn't keeping up. The books in this series have usually started with a flash forward in time, but this one goes beyond that. This one goes back and forth through the whole book. While I'm certainly not opposed to that method of story telling, it really wasn't done well here. I know there's another in this series and I'm sure I'll read it eventually, but I'm very disappointed.