Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries: Book 5
Publication Date: January 28, 2025
From author Lena Gregory comes a delightfully delicious cozy mystery…
With most of Eastern Long Island closed down for a blizzard, Danika Delaney and her friends are holed up in her old fashioned malt shop, the Coffee & Cream Café, with ice cream and hot chocolate. However, their plans to wait out the storm in cozy company are interrupted when a popular YouTuber and her two companions show up at the door—they’ve been trapped by the storm, and Dani generously offers to serve them breakfast. But her generosity isn’t rewarded in kind, as the reviewer then tries to extort money from Dani in exchange for a good review! When the storm finally clears, Dani is happy to have seen the last of them.
Or so she thought.
Dani and her friends decide to go sleigh riding the morning after the storm clears, but instead of a winter wonderland, they find the extorting YouTuber…dead! To make matters worse, Dani suddenly finds herself accused of the woman’s murder. Intent on restoring her reputation, Dani sets out to prove she didn’t do it. This is one storm she’s not sure she can weather…
Soft Serve Sleighing is the fifth book in the Coffee and Cream Café Mystery series by Lena Gregory. It was a fun-filled read with so many clues, red herrings, injuries, crimes committed, and, of course, Dani as the amateur sleuth. She and her sidekicks, also known as her friends and sister, once again try to figure out whodunnit.
This is the third book in the series I’ve read, and I look forward to reading more. There were some laugh-out-loud moments, along with numerous friends, family, small businesses, community members, more gossip than you can imagine, and living life in a small town on Long Island.
The story is set in the cold of winter and has a good flow with several twists and turns, along with multiple stories. Once again, Dani is always in the thick of things and figures out whodunnit, which wasn’t what I expected. There was closure and maybe even a chance for more romance in Dani’s future. A cute title and a detail-filled cover immediately drew me in.
Soft Serve Sleighing was a fast-paced read with several clues to sift through as we tried to figure out whodunnit. Pull up a seat, grab a coffee and a snack, and see if you can figure out who committed the crimes.
Lena Gregory is the author of the Bay Island Psychic Mysteries, which take place on a small island between the north and south forks of Long Island, New York, the All-Day Breakfast Café Mysteries, which are set on the outskirts of Florida’s Ocala National Forest, the Mini-Meadows Mysteries, set in a community of tiny homes in Central Florida, and the Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries, which take place in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, New York.
Lena grew up in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, but she recently traded in cold, damp, gray winters for the warmth and sunshine of central Florida, where she now lives with her husband, three kids, son-in-law, and four dogs. Her hobbies include spending time with family, reading, and walking. Her love for writing developed when her youngest son was born and didn’t sleep through the night. She works full-time as a writer and a freelance editor and is a member of Sisters in Crime.
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