Review
The Seventh Coffee & Cream Café Mystery
Spring is in the air in Watchogue and Danika Delaney is happy to spend the day with her mom. A trip to the garden center should be fun, even with Aunt Miriam tagging along. Their day of fun turns sour after watching a belligerent man yells at the cashier then backs his car into their truck. Not only that he has the audacity to blame her mother! After her mom receives a letter threatening a lawsuit Dani, with her friend Gwen as back up, decides to see if she can reason with him. But when they arrive at his house they find him dead-stabbed in the back! Although her boyfriend Jake is investigating, Dani is happy to let Eli bring out the murder board once more as she and her friends try to figure out who killed the duplicitous deceiver.
One of my favorite things about the Coffee & Cream Café Mystery series is how Dani's family, including the friends that are family too, rally together when one is threatened. Whether the stakes are low or high they will do whatever it takes to protect each other. And this group needs a lot of protecting!
Once again Dani finds herself in outlandish situations that had me laughing out loud. The best thing is that she has the ability to laugh at herself. It's also fine that her friends can laugh at her antics too, because the bottom line is that they love each other and nothing is done out of malice. That can't be said about our victim and even some suspects. Krane is a horrible person whose threats even exist after death. And the more we learn about him, the worse he gets! I love how the team investigates while still scooping up ice cream, pouring coffee, and going to Sunday dinner.
Heartwarming, yet hysterically funny, with a good mystery to boot A SCOOP OF DECEIT is a delightful addition to one of my favorite series.
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A Scoop of Deceit (Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries) by Lena Gregory
About A Scoop of Deceit
Cozy Mystery 7th in Series
Setting - New York
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Publication Date: March 10, 2026
From author Lena Gregory comes another decadently delightful cozy mystery ...
Spring has finally sprung on the south shore of eastern Long Island, New York, and Danika Delaney is ready to take a break from running her old-fashioned malt shop, the Coffee & Cream Café, to help her mom start planting for the season. With visions of colorful tulips and delicate daffodils in mind, Danika and her mother browse through the local garden center, where they can’t help but notice a confrontation between out-of-towner Sebastian Krane and the local cashier. Unfortunately, as Krane storms off, aggravated and not paying attention, he hops into his BMW, and crashes right into Mrs. Delaney as she’s backing up in her borrowed pickup truck. As if that weren't enough to put a damper on her sunny mood, Krane then has the nerve to file a lawsuit against her. But when Dani shows up at his mansion to try to straighten things out, she finds him dead, with a knife in his back. Apparently, someone had it out for Sebastian. Someone other than her mother. A fact Dani sets out to prove with the help of her sidekicks, Gwen and Eli, wading through a slew of shady suspects from the victim's stormy past. Can Dani clear her mother's name and find the truth behind Krane's murder? Or will Dani be in danger of pushing up daisies herself this spring?
About Lena Gregory
Lena Gregory is the author of the Bay Island Psychic Mysteries, which take place on a small island between the north and south forks of Long Island, New York, the All-Day Breakfast Café Mysteries, which are set on the outskirts of Florida’s Ocala National Forest, the Mini-Meadows Mysteries, set in a community of tiny homes in Central Florida, and the Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries, which take place in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, New York. Lena grew up in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, but she recently traded in cold, damp, gray winters for the warmth and sunshine of central Florida, where she now lives with her husband, three kids, son-in-law, and four dogs. Her hobbies include spending time with family, reading, and walking. Her love for writing developed when her youngest son was born and didn’t sleep through the night. She works full time as a writer and a freelance editor and is a member of Sisters in Crime.
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