Case of the Bleus is the fourth Cheese Shop cozy mystery by Korina Moss. Due out 26th Sept 2023 by Macmillan on their St. Martin's Press imprint, it's 320 pages and is available in mass market paperback, audio, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links throughout.
Cheese shop owner Willa Bauer is back with her quirky helpers, her cheese store Curds & Whey, lots and lots of cheese trivia, and a well constructed
puzzle to solve. This time, there's a lost recipe for an award winning bleu cheese and cheesemakers dropping dead. It's up to cheesemonger Willa and friends to get to the bottom of the mystery.
As with most cozies, the emphasis is on the characters and the puzzle. The crimes are described off-scene and without being gruesome. The language is very clean. The series continues to improve, from a strong start, and the ensemble cast of Willa and her employees continue to mesh and become more three dimensional and believable (for a cozy)
Although it's the fourth book in the series, the plot arc
and resolution are self-contained, and it works well enough as a
standalone. With four books currently in the series, it would make a good choice for a cozy
series binge or buddy read.
Four stars. Definitely one for
shopfront cozy fans. It's
full of esoteric cheese minutiae and I found a number of specialty
cheeses I'm looking forward to trying. The author has also included
intriguing cheese themed recipes for a ham & blue cheese tart and Gorgonzola garlic bread (yum!).
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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