Book Review: A Bean to Die For by Tara Lush
- Kristen Lewendon
- Jan 9, 2024
- 2 min read
A Coffee Lover´s Mystery Book 4
Perfect for fans of Cleo Coyle and Lucy Burdette, reporter-turned-barista Lana Lewis is back on the case when a body is dug up in the community garden.
Lana Lewis is brewing up new concoctions at Perkatory, a popular café in Devil’s Beach, when she decides she wants to try her hand at growing her own coffee. She secures a gardening plot in the community garden, thanks to her father and the garden’s owner, Darla. Darla’s list of rules is long, but that doesn’t stop someone from leaving Jack Daggett’s body amongst the gardening plots.
Jack, an environmental activist, had been banned from the garden previously, because of his many fights with Darla about organic produce. Lana promises her boyfriend, police chief Noah, that she’s going to stay out of this case, having been too involved in previous cases. But when she learns that Jack died from an accidental overdose, and Darla is the top suspect because of her shady past, Lana can't help but poke around in an attempt to clear Darla's name.
My Review:
Gardening can be… murder? Little did Lana know that when she decided to try growing some of her own coffee, she’d be stumbling across yet another dead body. Will all her talents as a former investigative journalist be enough to identify a killer before it’s too late? I had a lot of fun with this book. I didn’t notice any of the things that had been pain points previously and I was able to just sink into the story and try to out-sleuth Lana. Which I failed at quite miserably, by the way. The author kept me guessing about the “who?”s and the “why?”s all the way to the end. And I particularly loved what we got to see of Lana and Noah’s relationship progressing. That makes me very curious where this series is going to go next.
I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley.
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