Decaffeinated Corpse (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 5) [Mass Market Paperback]

Cleo Coyle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 2008

When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it's a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.

Editorial Reviews

Review

#1 Paperback Bestseller -- Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, July 2007

Coyle displays a deep understanding of coffee [and] coffee shop culture. If you haven't yet discovered the series, you should. -- Eric S. Chen, Baristo.net

Great characters, smooth plotting, and top-notch writing, it's no wonder these books are bestsellers. -- Cozy Library

About the Author

Cleo Coyle is the pen name for a multi-published author who collaborates with her husband to write the national bestselling series of Coffeehouse Mysteries. They also write the bestselling Haunted Bookshop Mysteries under the pen name Alice Kimberly. They live in Queens, New York.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (September 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425216381
• ISBN-13: 978-0425216385
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Visit Cleo Coyle at her *virtual* coffeehouse: www.CoffeehouseMystery.com where she posts coffee picks, bonus recipes, and maintains a message board.

CLEO COYLE grew up in a small town on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After earning scholarships to study writing at Carnegie Mellon and American Universities, she began her career as a cub reporter for The New York Times. Now an author of popular fiction as well as a New York Times bestselling media tie-in writer, Cleo lives and works in New York City, where she collaborates with her husband (also a bestselling author) to pen the Coffeehouse Mysteries. Together they also write the Haunted Bookshop Mysteries under the name Alice Kimberly. In their spare time they cook like crazy, rescue stray cats, drink a lot of java, and hunt ghosts. You can learn more about Cleo, her husband, and the books they write by visiting www.CoffeehouseMystery.com. Scroll down the left column of the site's Home Page and you will see links to a number of online interviews that Cleo has given.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Cuppa Joe and a good read, July 9, 2007

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Curious Reader (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Decaffeinated Corpse (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

Cleo Coyle has once again delighted us with a fast-paced mystery using the Village Blend coffee house as the center of activity. Her charcters, including bumbling ex hubby, Matt, and her delightful octogenarian former mother-in-law as well as her wanna be future love interest, Mike Quinn,are fascinating and funny and interesting.

Sometimes, Coyle gives us more information than we would ever want to know about growing coffee beans, properly processing coffee beans and the art of serving java. But it is easy to get past those moments simply because of the story line. She never stalls or gets bogged down, and instead keeps the reader glued because of the pace.

Finding yourself with a quiet Saturday afternoon or wanting a quick read during mobility, this is the one. You will not be disappointed.

25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The coffee gets better and better..., July 23, 2007

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Lizz A. Belle "lizzabelle, English major nerd" (North Bend, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Decaffeinated Corpse (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

I own all of the coffeehouse mysteries and this one did not disappoint. Cleo Coyle has created believable characters and added coffee trivia to boot. I love that no matter how minor a role the character has, Coyle always seems to give a great deal of thought and detail to this person, even if they are only in the book for a minute number of pages.

I have noticed that the plots improve with every novel, as do the recipes. Coyle's whodunits are not so obvious as some other mystery writers and she often keeps me guessing right until the end.

I agree with another reviewer who said that she provides her readers with coffee tidbits and trivia, but she does not get bogged down and I never feel like the book stalls at these times. She never uses a term that might not be familiar to all without explaining it (Rita Mae Brown did this in her last novel) and her dialogue is funny, witty and easy to read.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Favorite Return, July 14, 2007

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Samuel L. Duke "Beach Bum" (San Diego) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Decaffeinated Corpse (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

In Cleo Coyle's latest outing at the Village Blend all our favorite characters are back and up to the same coffee hijinks. This time around Clare is up to her elbows in decaf coffee. As if she didnt dislike it enough already this time around it could bring down everything she has worked so hard to get back. So the murders start piling up and everyone is a possible suspect. Its up to her to save the day and regain some order in her caffeinated life.

If you like her other offerings you will definitely like this one. There is even more character developement and new ones thrown into the mix. Its another fun outing with Claire and the entire Village Blend gang. Also another quick read that will want you having more and more, just like the addicting caffine...