No Roast for the Weary (A Coffeehouse Mystery Book 21)

No Roast for the Weary is cozy mystery perfection! I was hooked from the first chapter and loved that she incorporated current events into the story. The Village Blend is suffering financially because of the COVID-19 pandemic shut-down. Customer traffic hasn’t recovered from the pandemic. In order to increase business, the coffeehouse team brainstorms and decides to reopen the Writer’s Block Lounge, a second floor lounge that the coffeehouse hosted a few decades ago. With ads on social media sites, the crowds return.

There is an incident, though, with a regular customer who begins shouting and fighting against someone who is invisible to everyone but him. The staff call him Mr. Scrib because he spends hours every day drinking coffee show more and writing in a notebook. Scrib tells barrista Esther that he is writing a true crime book that will upset all the politicians and cops in New York City. The mystery to be solved concerns Mr. Scrib whose real name is Jensen Van Dyne. There is a murder to solve in the current time period but one that happened years ago in the Writer's Block Lounge is the main mystery.

This is another fun, fast-paced contemporary mystery. I love that this story delved into a mystery that occurred decades ago in the coffeehouse. It keeps the series fresh when the authors write about both current and former murders that happened at the Village Blend. show less

Another winner. Claire and crew are concerned with low foot traffic with the Village Blend. Someone recommends restarting the Writer's Block Lounge. There was another group in Madam's day where one of the writers was murdered and not solved. Esther befriends an older man who comes daily to the Village Blend. One day he has a breakdown right in front of everyone. This man always has a notebook where he is constantly writing into it. When the notebook disappears, Claire and her baristas are on a mission to find it before it's too late.