Latte Trouble (24 page)
Authors: Cleo Coyle
Tags: #General, #Fiction, #Detective, #Mystery, #Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, #Fashion, #Mystery & Detective, #Fiction - Mystery, #Coffeehouses, #Suspense, #Women Sleuths, #Cosi; Clare (Fictitious character), #Mystery fiction, #Art, #Action & Adventure
Coffeehouse Mystery
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For many Greenwich Village residents, summer in the city means weekends in the Hamptons. With a coffeehouse to run, Clare Cosi has never spent much time at the fabled collection of exclusive seaside towns. Then her new friend David Mintzer makes an offer Clare can’t refuse—train the barista staff at his new Hamptons restaurant and enjoy sun, sand, and surf at his fabulous mansion. Clare accepts, packs up her daughter, Joy, her well-connected former mother-in-law, Madame, and the Village Blend’s recipes for frothy iced coffee drinks, and heads for ocean breezes. After she arrives, however, more than the coffee gets iced. At the end of David’s fabulous July Fourth bash, a body is found, shot through the head, and Clare immediately begins to scrutinize possible suspects. What she uncovers are so many long brewing resentments among the volatile blend of new money wannabes, old guard blue bloods, summering Hollywood celebrities, and aggressive, stressed-out Manhattan weekenders that she quickly realizes the real question isn’t why the first victim was shot, but when the next one will be.
