A funny cozy mystery with murder and donuts

Goodbye Cruller World (A Deputy Donut Mystery Book 2)

By: Ginger Bolton

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a cute cozy mystery with donuts and murder. The donuts sound delicious and the murder sounds sinister.

I recently read the first book in this series and I recommend you read it before you read this one. It gives context to the relationships and the characters. This could be read stand-alone but for maximum enjoyment, I would read from the beginning.

Emily Westhill owns Deputy Donut, a donut shop along with her father-in-law. She is a widow of four years at this point. She misses her husband and is not looking to date or get involved at this point or, looking forward, anytime in the future. That doesn’t stop her from trying to fix up her good friends together.

Deputy Donut is catering the donut wall at an the wedding of a friend. Not a close friend but more than an acquaintance. Emily meets the groom, who is a more than slightly unlikeable fellow.

When he ends up poisoned, at the wedding, circumstances point to the donut wall. Emily starts sleuthing to clear her company’s name as well as to prove her friend is not a murderer.

What I especially like about this series, is that Emily does provide the information she uncovers to the police. That the detective is a good friend doesn’t take away from the fact that she does what is right. Murder mysteries where the sleuth hides pertinent facts and even evidence, from the police, always makes me uncomfortable. I end up wondering when the sleuth will be charged with obstruction of justice.

I’m looking forward to reading more in the series as it progresses.

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