Love—and smelly cheese—are in the air. Sophie Mae has accepted Barr’s marriage proposal, and they’re trying to keep her mother, Anna Belle, from taking over their no-fuss, no-muss wedding plans. But when Mom finds a cryptic suicide note that Sophie Mae’s brother wrote two decades earlier, Sophie Mae reluctantly makes a trip back to her hometown of Spring Creek, Colorado, to suss things out.
As she pokes around in other people’s business while learning the finer points of artisan cheese making, a murderer strikes—with a glass bottle of milk. Soon, Sophie Mae discovers that aging cheese isn’t the only thing in Spring Creek that doesn’t pass the smell test.
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McRae temporarily moves her series from Washington State to Spring Creek, Colorado. Heroine Sophie Mae has accepted policeman Barr Ambrose's marriage proposal, but she is not giving up the family she has created in Cadyville, Washington. Instead, she is renovating her house for the soon-to-be-expanded family, and in order to escape the resultant chaos, the whole cast makes its way to Colorado, where Sophie Mae grew up and where her parents are now in crisis. McRae uses this premise to fill in Sophie Mae's backstory. We learn that her brother, Bobby Lee, committed suicide two decades ago and that a suicide note has just now been found. While trying to unravel this old and heartbreaking mystery, Sophie Mae also takes the opportunity to acquaint herself with another home craft. Her brother's old school friends now make their own artisan cheeses, and Sophie Mae is quick to learn the fine points of mozzarella, cheddar, and bleu. This series continues to add depth to its engaging cast of characters, and the home-crafting details remain a delight and an inspiration. --Judy Coon
Revenge is Fun series. Publisher Vinny Vitali deserves to be whacked, but for some reason he's like a cat with 9 lives. He's holding a mob widow's memoir hostage and the authors want to kill him, but he won't die.
