Review
The Second Bee Keeping Mystery
Back in Humble Hills, Colorado, mystery writer Bailey Briggs is enjoying life. She's reunited with her best friend, Evie, she's rekindling a romance with her first love, and she's relieved that her daughter, Daisy, is fitting in and is happy. The town is all abuzz for their Bee Festival, organized by none other than Bailey's grandmother. In addition to festival foods, a beauty contest, and a fun run, there's also a bake off in which Evie is competing. While the judges are local, the host is a television journalist from California. Unfortunately, he turns out to be an obnoxiously arrogant and handsy jerk. When he winds up dead, Evie becomes a prime suspect and Bailey and the Hive start investigating.
I really love this fun series. Bailey is a likable protagonist who falls into some outrageous situations, yet is also a caring and watchful mother. Smart and loyal, she's a capable adult who also goes all gooey over Sawyer. Evie is a perfect partner in crime who also whips up some delicious recipes. In fact, all of the food prepared by the contestants in the bake off had my mouth watering. I love Spike and hope his character sticks around. At times laugh out loud funny, KILL OR BEE KILLED also pulls at the heartstrings. There are adrenaline rushing scenes, emotional scenes, and an ending that had my jaw drop.
Friendship, love, and loyalty as well as plenty of laughs make KILL OR BEE KILLED a delightfully entertaining mystery.
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Kill or Bee Killed (A Bee Keeping Mystery) by Jennie Marts
About Kill or Bee Killed
Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series
Setting - Colorado
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books (June 4, 2024)
Hardcover: 336 pages
Perfect for fans of Laura Childs and Amanda Flower, this second Bee Keeping mystery takes Bailey Briggs to the brink as murders threaten the future of her granny’s Bee Festival.
The small town of Humble Hills, Colorado, is abuzz with excitement over the upcoming annual Bee Festival, sponsored by Bailey’s Granny Bee and the Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch. The long weekend of festivities includes a beauty pageant, beekeeping demonstrations, a local restaurant bake-off, and a 3K Bear Run where all the participants are dressed as bears. The bake-off brings in a television crew from California to film, so it’s the most drama-filled part of the weekend, especially when the famous celebrity host winds up dead.
Because the celebrity was holding her bracelet and had been witnessed having an altercation with Bailey’s best friend Evie shortly before his death, everyone suspects Evie of the murder—and Bailey is quickly on the hunt for clues to clear Evie’s name, alongside Granny Bee and her bunch of geriatric misfit friends. Bailey’s potential new honey, Sheriff Sawyer Dunn, is none too pleased to have Bailey buzzing around the investigation, but Bailey’s determined to uncover the truth, rescue her grannie’s beloved Bee Festival, and save her bestie.
They say you get more flies with honey, but in this case, more honey may mean you end up dead. And a little competition never hurt anyone—unless it ends up killing you.
About Jennie Marts
Jennie Marts is the USA TODAY Best-selling author of award-winning books filled with love, laughter, and always a happily ever after. Readers call her books “laugh out loud” funny and the “perfect mix of romance, humor, and steam.” Fic Central claimed one of her books was “the most fun I’ve had reading in years.”
She is living her own happily ever after in the mountains of Colorado with her husband, two dogs, and a parakeet who loves to tweet to the oldies. She’s addicted to Diet Coke, adores Cheetos, has never missed an episode of Survivor, and believes you can’t have too many books, shoes, or friends.
Her books include the following small town romance series: Cowboys of Creedence, Creedence Horse Rescue Series, Lassiter Ranch, Hearts of Montana, the Bannister Brothers (hockey romcom), Cotton Creek , and two hilarious cozy mysteries series, The Page Turners and The Bee Keeping Mysteries.
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