Retrieve Ladle To The Grave (Soup Lover's Mystery, #4) Authored By Connie Archer Expressed As File

the Spoonful is Snowflake, Vermonts most popular soup shop, but owner Lucky Jamieson doesnt have any time to enjoy her successshes too busy trying to keep a lid on false accusations against her loved ones

Its almost May, and some of the local ladies have organized a pagan celebration in the woods to welcome spring.
But the evening goes terribly wrong when one of the attendees winds up dead, apparently poisoned by an herbal concoction prepared by Luckys grandfather, Jack.


Luckys sure her grandfather could not have made such a tragic mistake, But before she can clear him of suspicion, her best friend, Sophie, is diverted from planning her wedding to By the Spoonful chef Sage DuBois when she finds a dead man floating in the creek on her property.
Now its up to Lucky to get both Sophie and Jack out of hot water before a killer stirs up more trouble

Recipes included! I like this series, I like Lucky and her family and friends, I like her little town and her ridiculous "we serve only soup" restaurant.
I like her attitude and her temper and her support of those family and friends, I even understand her meddling in police matters, which generally annoys me in most cozies,
This means of course that this series is over and there is only one more book to read, :D I recommend the series and hope more books may someday appear by this author, Connie Archer brings readers the fourth book in her Soup Lover's mystery series, Ladle to the Grave, In this book readers get two for the price of one, since there is more than one murder for soup restaurant owner, Lucky to solve.
Readers looking for a charming small town mystery with reoccurring characters and plenty of mayhem will love this one, Archer has an eye for detail and her characters both villains and heroes are well drawn and easy to relate to, A great addition to this very popular series!

Snowflake, Vermont is the kind of New England small town I've always dreamed of living in, minus the murders that do seem to occur on occasion.
Archer brings Snowflake to life with her vivid imagery and details, Readers know everything about this little town, from the details in the lives of it's citizens to the descriptions of the shops and places that make the town seem so real.
Archer shows us how important the right setting can be for a mystery series,

Lucky is as always very protective of her family and her friends, In Ladle to the Grave she has to deal with suspicion being thrown on not only her grandfather, but her best friend Sophie as well.
Two murder's instead of the customary one in cozy mysteries, makes the reader feel like they really get their money's worth with this one.
Not only is the mystery well thought out and executed, the reader is able to discover the clues right along with Lucky, It didn't wrap up to quickly and it wasn't too apparent who the villain or villains could be, A complex but very entertaining mystery,

One of the parts that I like best in this series are the reoccurring characters, We get to learn new details in every book about Lucky and her family, her doctor boyfriend and other members of the community.
In this one we get to see the planning of Sophie's wedding to the chef at Lucky's restaurant, It was fun to check in with everyone and find out what was new, Archer always makes it a good visit with old friends as well as a top notch mystery,

Bottom Line:

This is one of my favorite cozy mystery series, Archer's eye of detail makes the setting come alive and the people of Snowflake seem like old friends, You two mysteries wrapped up in one in this one and there's plenty going on in town to give the readers even more to like about it.
A great addition to the series! Restaurant owner of By the Spoonful Soup Shop, Lucky Jamieson's Grandfather Jack is deeply haunted by visions and dreams of his heartbreaking and terrible past to the point of sometimes he feels there's no return.


He truly feels lost and past the point of no return when a group of local ladies are having a ritualistic celebration in the woods.
He is asked to pick herbs from his garden for the wine that the ladies are to drink during the celebration,

When one of the women Agnes suddenly dies after drinking the wine, Agne's husband accuses him of tampering with the herbs Jack gave to them, Lucky does not believe her grandfather could have made such a terrible mistake and quickly jumps to his aid to help clear his name.


Meanwhile, Lucky's best friend Sophie is getting married to By the Spoonful's chef, Sage and Lucky is helping her plan the wedding.

While visiting Sophie's dead mother's property they stumble upon a dead body beaten beyond recognition in the creek on her property,
Lucky has a tall order to fill helping her grandfather and her best friend to discover who could have murdered these people.
Sophie is also a woman with a past she discovers is not what she thought,

This book is filled with characters that come right off the page and make you feel for them and think about them long after you finish reading.
This fourth book in the Soup Lover's Mystery was a page turner, With a little bit of every thing you could love about reading a cozy mystery, food, books, murder and compelling and flawed characters and best of all soup.
I loved Lucky and her friends, They were nice, interesting and didn't act like children, The setting is beautiful and I really want a restaurant that specializes in soup nearby! The little glimpses of Lucky's parents were nice and I really enjoyed her relationship with her grandfather.
They were close but not right on top of each other, It felt very much like a real relationship, It was nice to get a feel for Sophie and Lucky's childhood and definitely helped me connect with both characters more, I liked that police weren't portrayed as inept and Lucky, while investigating, wasn't going against the orders of police, There were no slow spots or places it felt like the story was dragging and the reveal was a surprise which is pretty rare for me! While I haven't read the firstin the series though I own them I don't feel like that prevented me from enjoying the story and connecting with the characters.


Overall:This was a cup of tea kind of mystery, This is an interesting story, great pacing, nice characters and soup, What more can you want!

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I found this book a little tense at times, There are two deaths right towards the beginning, Firstladies are celebrating the coming of spring, one dies after drinking the May wine, which Jack supplied the herbs for, Later Sophie discovers a body on her mother's property, Is Jack involved in thest death and Lucky is in

the thick of it while trying to get ready for Sophie's wedding, take care of the shop and Jack.
Nice addition to this series, The twist and resolution at the end was just about crossing into a thriller and if Archer was so inclined, Rick would make for a great protag in a thriller series.
One of my favorites

One of my favorite series, so glad to see another adventure, The characters are like old friends and snowflake is the perfect little town, well, except for all of the murders, .