This is a Great Book | On What Grounds (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 1)

first in the Coffeehouse Mystery series | On What Grounds (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 1) | Cleo Coyle

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	• On What Grounds (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 1) Cleo Coyle Berkley, 2003 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 102 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Caffeine Overdose

Nicely written and just an OK story but way too much detail on coffee. There are segments within this novel, where it's just pages on pages of detail about how to properly ground coffee and brew a cup. A bit too much detail to the part where it becomes boring.

It's alright, but after reading the first book, I'm not inclined to buy anymore in the series.

This is a Great Book

What a great book "On What Grounds" is! It's set in a coffee shop, has interesting and enjoyable characters, a good plot, believable mystery, and lots of laughs. (Not to mention quite a bit of coffee trivia!). The perfect book for reading in the bath or on an airplane.

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first in the Coffeehouse Mystery series

I am new to the culinary mystery genre but have now read several, and I'd rank this book as one of the better ones. Even though I'm not a coffee drinker I enjoyed the sometimes rhapsodic nuggets of information about the beans and preparation from enthusiastic narrator Clare Cosi, a woman whose only child has left for the halls of academia, compelling our protagonist to accept her ex-mother-in-law's offer to come run her Greenwich Village coffee shop, a job she excelled at but left when she divorced the owner's sexy but infuriating son ten years ago and moved to .... New Jersey! Excited but wary, Clare is trepidatious as she drives into Manhattan, jonesing for some java. But when she gets there the store is closed, even though the young woman in charge had seemed so responsible. Clare discovers a body, her boss/ex-mother-in-law is determined to get her and the ex back together, and police detective Quinn seems irresistibly poised to become a gourmet coffee drinker. What's not to love? The book is peppered with fun facts about the city, there are a number of interesting characters (including a cat named Java), and there a few recipes in the back of the book. Thoroughly enjoyable. Looking forward to more.

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Light and frothy start to a cozy coffee mystery series

Clare, a single mom whose daughter has headed off to culinary school in New York City, decides to uproot herself from the suburbs and return to the city herself. She takes back her old job of manager for a coffee house that is a neighborhood institution and is owned by her mother-in-law, and will live in the apartment over the store. She goes to open and finds the store dark and her reliable employee unconscious in the back at the bottom of the stairs. While she initially thinks this is an accident, certain things don't add up and Clare begins to investigate. Complicating things are her ex-husband, a coffee buyer, and the handsome Detective Quinn, who Clare feels obliged to educate in the delights of real coffee. Add to that, the situation her mother-in-law has plotted with both she and her ex becoming partners in the business and the apartment. Was it the boyfriend, the protective socialite mother of the young man, the former manager, or someone else? This is a fun cosy mystery and the author clearly loves and appreciates coffee. It is a decent start to the series and I hope the characters continue to develop in the series.

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"The perfect cup of coffee is a mystifying thing. To many of my customers, the entire process seems like some sort of alchemy they dare not try at home...." Ten years ago, Clare Cosi left an unhappy marriage along with a job she loved: managing the historic Village Blend coffeehouse in New York's Greenwich Village. For a decade, she was happy raising her daughter in the quiet suburbs of New Jersey; but now that Joy is grown and gone, life has gotten way too quiet for Clare. With a little cajoling from Madame, the Blend's flamboyant, elderly owner, Clare agrees to return to her old job, and right from the start she gets one heck of a jolt. On her first morning back as Village Blend manager, Clare unlocks the front door to find her beautiful, young assistant manager unconscious in the back of the store, coffee grounds strewn everywhere. As Anabelle is rushed to the hospital, police arrive to investigate, but Detective Mike Quinn finds no sign of forced entry or foul play, and he deems it an accident. Clare disagrees; and after Quinn leaves, there are a few questions she just can't get out of her mind, like why was the trash bin in the wrong place? If this wasn't an accident, are her other baristas in danger? And are all NYPD detectives this attractive?

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