Reviewed: 17 September 2024

Berried Secrets

by: Peg Cochran

Cranberry Cove Mystery - Book 1

Rating: (2/5)

Cranberry bogs and murder

This one was not for me. I thought it would be with its setting on a cranberry farm in an area akin to areas around Lake Michigan, characters from Chicago and all. I was not able to connect with the characters. There were inconsistencies that through me off.

For example, the brother Jeff was said to have a paralyzed arm but then later would be doing actions with both arms. It is also a bad sign that I am not connecting when I forget the lead characters name. I remembered Gina (spunky mom), Darlene (sulky employee), Lauren (Jeff's love interest) and so but had to go back and look at the summary for Monica's name.

I liked that the lead detective was not a love interest, not antagonistic, and for a twist, about ready to have her first child - literally.

With this being the first in the series, some of things may be worked out in upcoming books. So I may read the next one before abandoning the series.

Happy Reading!

Release Date: 4-August-2015

Cozy Mystery, Audiobook, Female Sleuth

Plot Summary

The small town of Cranberry Cove has a deadly harvest in the first mystery in this delightful series from the author of the Gourmet De-Lite Mysteries.

When Monica Albertson comes to Cranberry Cove—a charming town on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan—to help her half-brother Jeff on his cranberry farm, the last thing she expects to harvest is a dead body.

It seems that Sam Culbert, who ran the farm while Jeff was deployed overseas, had some juicy secrets that soon prove fatal, and Jeff is ripe for the picking as a prime suspect. Forming an uneasy alliance with her high-maintenance stepmother, Monica has her hands full trying to save the farm while searching for a killer. Culbert made plenty of enemies in the quaint small town...but which one was desperate enough to kill?