When Savvy Summers first opened Essie's soul food café, she never expected her customer-favorite sweet potato pie to become the center of a murder investigation. But when Grandy Jaspers, the 75-year-old neighborhood womanizer, drops dead at table two, she suddenly has more to worry about than just maintaining Essie's reputation for the finest soul food in the Chicagoland area.
Even as the police deem Grandy’s death an accident, Savvy quickly finds herself—and her beloved café—in the middle of an entire city’s worth of bad press. Desperate to clear her name and keep her business afloat, Savvy and her snooping assistant manager, Penny Lopés, take it upon themselves to find who really killed Grandy.
But with a slimy investor harassing her to sell her name and business, customers avoiding her sweet potato pie like the plague, and her police sergeant ex-husband suddenly back in the picture, will Savvy be able to clear the café’s name and solve Grandy’s murder before it all falls apart?
After all, while Savvy always said her sweet potato pie was to die for, she never meant literally.
There were too many characters to keep track of, which meant too many suspects and motives. I wish there had been a few less so that Savvy could dive deeper into the background of the victim as well as maybe two or three suspects. I also felt like 2 police officers, one her ex-husband and the other the yearning but active detective was too much.
That said please please please do NOT create a love triangle. I feel like I am falling on deaf ears (or blind eyes in this case), but do not do this. This novel has a good dynamic with Savvy and Penny, but if you are giving Savvy a romantic relationship as well, then pick one before the second book comes out, please.
Overall, I rate this novel 3 out of 5 stars.
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