Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant by Darci Hannah

 

Do you like pumpkin flavored food or drink items?  What is your favorite?  I love pumpkin flavored baked goods such as pumpkin bread.

Lindsey owns a bakeshop in an old lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan in the small town of Beacon Harbor, Michigan.  The lighthouse is rumored to be haunted and local teens have tried to break in near Halloween to see it for themselves.  Lindsey’s best friend Kennedy has arranged for the Ghost Guys to do a livestream podcast as they look for supernatural beings in the lighthouse.  Unfortunately, they instead found a dead body on a tree outside still dressed in a costume from the local pumpkin pageant.  Who murdered them and why?

I enjoyed this cozy mystery.  It is the fourth book in the A Beacon Bakeshop Mystery Series, but the first book that I have read in the series.  It worked well as a standalone novel.  I enjoyed how the start of the novel set up the scene, introduced the characters, and then after the murder, Lindsey and her friends investigated and started to piece together what was happening.  The ending was very good and I had not guessed the murderer.  After the novel ended, there many tasty looking pumpkin recipes that I want to try out.  I loved the autumnal setting of this book and I really liked it being set in a small town on Lake Michigan.  I live in a small town on Lake Michigan, but on the Wisconsin side.  I need to read the rest of the books in this series!

Book Source:  Review copy from NetGalley and Kensington Books. Thank-you!  Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.