And don't overload with so many elements to the point where it gets confusing and uninteresting. I still think this a good series Abby Collette just needs to tone Maisie all the way down in future installments. Especially since I had guessed the person early on despite the red herring being thrown in at the end. Especially since business is booming so much she's expanding to a food truck.īut by the time the book ended and we found out who the murder was I just didn't care. Even though her shop is a long time owned family business it can be seen as more trendy with the recent revamps. And I liked that during the gentrification talk she pondered if she was part of the problem too. I enjoyed the ice cream making scenes and how Win mixes different unique flavors together. For someone who watches a lot of crime mysteries she should know visiting someone and then openly accusing them of murder right away gets no results.

She needed to be dialed back as she was too rash with accusing anyone and everyone of committing the murder and often derailing the investigation. Maisie was way too hyper to the point where it just got annoying. No surprise that she becomes a suspect in the murder case. And Rory is acting strange and stumbling over lies from the time we meet her. Win's friend Rory is also in town and her old coworker is trying to convince her to move back to NYC. Plus there was a side plot with Aunt Jack returning to town and trying to stake her claim in the show but that plot kept stopping and starting so you couldn't feel the full impact of her threat. And they would be introduced and then disappear. While there needs to be multiple characters as suspects I felt like this story had too many characters. This one was a little all over the place for me by the halfway mark. I enjoyed the first book in this series so I was looking forward to this one. Her friend Maisie has been itching for another case to solve since the last and after Detective Beverly visits them she's convinced he was asking them to solve it. Is it revitalization of the area or is it gentrification? And is Browyn and her fancy ice cream shoppe with it's non traditional flavors part of the problem?Īfter a town hall meeting with various shop owners a man working for the development company turns up dead.

But while she's found her stride some of the other shop owners around town are finding their livelihood threatened by plans to build a new mall. Business has picked up for Browyn 'Win' Crewse and she's experimenting with some really cool new flavors. I found a picture of a popular shop there.

Which I found out is actually a real place that has cute little shops just like in this book. So we revisit the small town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

A Game of Cones by Abby Collette