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    Boiled Over
    Boiled Over
    Boiled Over
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    Boiled Over

    By Barbara Ross

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    In this cozy mystery, a young woman in Maine must protect her family’s clambake business when an employee is accused of murder.
     
    For Julia Snowden, the Founder’s Day summer celebration in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, means helping her family’s clambake company to prepare an authentic taste of New England seafood. Any Mainer will tell you that a real clambake needs wood for the fire . . .so why is there a foot sticking out of the oven?
     
    The townspeople want to pin the murder of the RV park owner on Cabe Stone, a new employee of the Snowden Family Clambake Company—who bolted from the crime scene and disappeared. Julia knows having another murder associated with her family’s business is a recipe for disaster . . .but who is the killer? Cooking up a proper investigation doesn’t leave much time for the rest of Julia’s life, and this is one killer who’ll do anything to stop her from digging up clues . . .
     
    Includes Traditional Maine Clambake Recipes!
     
    “A top-notch mystery with equal parts local color, likeable characters, excellent plotting and yummy recipes. A Down-East, wicked-good winner!”—Suspense Magazine
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKensington Books
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9780758286888
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    Barbara Ross

    Barbara Ross is the author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries. Her books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel, RT Books Reviewer's Choice Awards, and the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. The co-editor/co-publisher of Level Best Books, which produces anthologies of crime stories by New England authors, she lives in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. For more information, visit maineclambakemysteries.com.

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    • 4/5
      Julia Snowden is up to her neck in work for the Founder's Day weekend celebration at Busman's Harbor. She's on the committee and has several assignments. But she takes time to check on her family's clambake setup on the pier and she is just in time to see that something is very wrong with the filre, uh, there's a foot sticking out. When suspicion falls on a new Clambake employee, (Cabe) Julia and her family are convinced he is innocent. But he does nothing to help prove his innocence when he runs away. Julia needs to find Cabe and prove his innocence all while trying to keep the weekend and her family business going.This is the second book in the series. I really like Julia and her family. We get to know the family and the townsfolk better in this book. We also see Julia struggling with her own problems about where her future is leading. The mystery in the book is pretty good. Like all amateur detectives, Julia is sometimes a bit frustrating, but overall you can't help but like her for her loyalty. Hope the next book comes soon.
    • 4/5
      A very good follow up to Clammed Up, but not quite as good. I thought this mostly because the author's repeated use of flashbacks, while very well done and well-written, got on my nerves. I don't know why. They just did. Julia's a member of the Founder's Day committee and her family's clambake business is one of the food vendors for the event - until a body is found in the wood fire they're using to cook the food. One of her employees runs away from the scene and is generally thought to be the murderer. Julia hired him rather last minute, and when she realises just how little information she has for him, starts digging, trying to both find him and help him. I generally enjoyed this story quite a bit. But after reading it and thinking about it for awhile, I am left with the feeling that perhaps the author tried to take a very involved plot and shorten it into a 300 page story. Nothing is truly lacking, but just about everything could have been fleshed out a little bit more. Why does Julia's family dislike her boyfriend Chris? I'd have liked to know a bit more about Zach and how he ended up at the RV park. What happened to her silent investor? What about Quentin? Where's Quentin? It's probable I'm being too harsh. I enjoyed the story, it kept my attention and the characters weren't at all flat. The murder plot was delightfully twisty and clever. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the first book, and I've added the next book to my personal list. (At least a couple of the recipes at the back look good too!)
    • 4/5
      4 STARS I enjoyed reading this cozy mystery. It has charming characters, lovely setting, keeps you guessing right to the end to who did what. learned some new things along the way. It also leaves you wanting to come back and see what happens next with these characters. There are recipes that are at the end of the story so easy to find if you later decide to try them. The setting is Busman's Harbor, Maine. It is a small tourist, fishing area on the coast. It is their founder day celebration. Julia Snowden has been working on the committee and also runs her family's business of Clambake. They are planning a clambake right on the pier. They built a contraption for the clambake. They are ready for it and they find a dead body in the fire. There employee runs away before the cops can come. Julia does not believe that their young employee Cabe Stone did it. She is determined to find out what really happened and help find Cabe too. I wish I could know more about Julia and her boyfriend Chris relationship. Probably shared more in the first book of the series. It does stand alone but I would like to read it. I was wrong on my guesses who the killer was and why. So I did enjoy the mystery. looking back it makes sense. Lots of suspects and motives for different people being the killer. I would read more books by Barbara Ross based on Boiled Over. I was given this ebook to read and agreed to give honest review of it by Netgalley and Kensington.
    • 4/5
      This is the second book in the Maine Clambake Mystery series and I liked it more than the first one. I think that is because the characters were more likable in this book, they got along better and we learned a bit more about their past. Julia Snowden is still helping out at the Snowden Family Clambake which is now making a profit, but she still plans to return to her "real" job in New York. When her sister recommends she get involved in the Founder's Day Committee, she becomes a reluctant member, but works hard to produce a wonderful weekend for the town. The Clambake is serving food on the pier with the newly built "Claminator". When the day begins, Sonny discovers a charred leg sticking out of the claminator as he is trying to add more wood. Cabe, the newest employee of the Snowden Family Clambake, runs and is immediately a suspect. Drawn into the investigation once again, Julia sets out to prove that this nice young kid, Cabe, is definitely innocent. As more and more suspects materialize, Julia once again puts herself in danger to help another.

      I really like this series and am looking forward to the next book, Boiled Over. I give it 4.5 stars. I like the atmosphere of the small town on the Maine coast and all of it's seafood and crustiness. The characters that were introduced in this book added flavour to the story as well as helping to solve the mystery. Chris and Julia are continuing to ramp up their relationship, and the twist at the end of the book will keep me reading to see where they go. The mystery was very well plotted, with several suspects and twists. I did figure out who the culprit was, but that did not diminish my enjoyment. Once again, a well written cozy mystery that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys a light mystery without the violence.
    • 4/5
      Loved the part about the blueberry barrens. The mystery wasn't particularly strong, but the setting was.
    • 4/5
      At Busman’s Harbor, Maine Julia Snowden helps her family’s clambake company prepare a taste of an authentic dish for tourists. When a foot drops out from the fire and the pier is shut down for investigation. The police are looking at a young man working for the Snowden’s as the murderer. Julia believes Cabe is innocent and sets out to help him.

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