Coconut Drop Dead

Name: Coconut Drop Dead
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Olivia Matthews
ISBN: 9781666652000

Author: Olivia Matthews

Series: Spice Isle Bakery Mysteries #3

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 12/26/2023

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cozy, Cozy Culinary, African American & Black Fiction, Amateur Sleuth

Synopsis

Brooklyn’s annual Caribbean American Heritage Festival is finally here, and Spice Isle Bakery is thrilled to be one of the event’s food vendors. After all, the Murrays have been attending the festival for years. Co-owner Lyndsay Murray hopes their West Indian pastries and finger foods draw people back to the bakery in Little Caribbean. She’s looking forward to having fun, connecting with customers, and celebrating with her family. But the day's festivities are cut short when Camille, lead singer of an up-and-coming reggae band, dies. The police think it may be a tragic accident. But Lyndsay’s cousin Manny was close to Camille, and he believes someone cut her life short. Now Manny needs Lyndsay’s help to make sure a killer faces the music.

About Olivia Matthews

Olivia Matthews is the cozy-mystery pseudonym of award-winning author Patricia Sargeant. A voracious reader, she’s been inspired by writers such as Walter Mosley, Dick Francis, and Tami Hoag, who put ordinary characters in extraordinary situations. Raised in New York City, she lives with her husband in Ohio.

About Janina Edwards

Janina Edwards is a graduate of the acting program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Based in Atlanta, she voices webinars, eLearning, and audiobooks in a variety of genres, including drama, romance, nonfiction, and mysteries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mallory

This is book three in the Spice Isle Bakery Mysteries but it was the first one I picked up and I wasn’t lost. It’s one of the things I like about cozy mysteries, I find the series order to be more flexible than most. I also love that cozy mysteries have a special interest, this one was the Caribbean......more

Goodreads review by Louise

3.5 stars, rounded up Coconut Drop Dead is the third book in an enjoyable cozy mystery series featuring a family from Grenada who have opened a bakery in their Brooklyn neighborhood, Little Caribbean. The bakery is more than a traditional bakery because they serve traditional dishes such as “fish bak......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany)

I think this cozy mystery series is really fun. The heroine is a Black Caribbean woman living in Brooklyn and running a bakery with her family. She keeps getting caught up these murder investigations though! In Coconut Drop Dead, the lead singer of a popular band (and the woman her cousin was crushi......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie

Things are busy at Spice Isle Bakery. It's the annual Caribbean American Heritage Festival and the bakery is participating as a vendor. Lyndsay Murray is looking forward to the festival, the customers, and the music. But then tragedy strikes when Camille, a well-known singer of a reggae band, dies s......more

Goodreads review by Robin Loves

"Tragedy hits Caribbean-American Festival." Lyndsay Murray, now called The Grenadian Nancy Drew, has a booth at the annual Caribbean-American Heritage Festival, which is a nod to her West Indian heritage. At the event, Lyndsay is requested to cater an exclusive wedding. Even before she can even thin......more