A Scone of Contention by Lucy Burdette
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hailey and Nathan finally get to take their honeymoon.... although with Nathan's mom and Miss Gloria tagging along. Since they are staying at Nathan's sister's house, and her husband has a golf tournament he signed Nathan up for, it's not exactly a private trip. Then, at a dinner party, one of the guests is poisoned, and a tourist spot, a stranger falls to his death. Are these incidents related? Was the stranger known to the sister-in-law and her friends?

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Haunted Hibiscus by Laura Childs
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Timothy's grandniece is murdered, apparently for a theft of her antique yellow diamond set. He asks Theo and her friends to look into it, despite the fact that her boyfriend, Detective Riley, was wounded while investigating. I knew the murderer from pretty much the beginning, but it was still a fun read.

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I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The plot was cute and I love Jayne Entwistle's narration, but there was too much swearing for my liking.
Poppy is an engaged woman who loses her engagement ring -- a family heirloom-- and gets her phone stolen at the same time. When she sees a phone in a trash bin, she seizes it, hoping to use it until she can get another phone. The phone belonged to the assistant of a powerful business executive, Sam, and soon Poppy is playing the role of his assistant in an effort to keep the phone, at least until her ring is found. Sam and Poppy develop a strange relationship via text.

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A Crime of Passion Fruit by Ellie Alexander
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Carlos calls Jules and ask if she would do a 1 cruise stint on the ship, as their Pastry Chef quit and the new hire can't start until the next sailing. He offers to put up her mom and the Professor so they can have a vacation. Jules agrees, but on the first morning onboard, she finds a body in the pool. The victim is a stowaway and nobody seems to know her. There's a storm up ahead and they cannot reach port at the moment, so the Professor steps in as detective.
I love cruises and got lost on the life aboard ship, so some aspects were a little confusing. What should have been a 4 day cruise seemed to take a week. I wish they'd been more recipes, also, but it was mostly a good mystery.

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Styled for Murder by Nancy J. Cohen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Marla and Dalton are settling down to new parenthood, when Marla's mother finds a body in her being-remodeled bathroom. Marla had thrown her amateur sleuth days were over with the arrival of Ryder, but her mother's distress makes her get involved once more. Add a pageant, an unscrupulous business, a graduation, and a soap star, and you have a nice mystery. And this one has recipes!

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