Blackberry Crumble

Blackberry Crumble

By: Josi S. Kilpack

Sadie never intended to be a mystery solver.  She thought she was always thrown into them.  Garrison, Colorado thinks differently.  They suspect murder follows her  wherever she goes.  The world in which Sadie has known is crumbling.  Gossip bubbles in her wake, people she once thought were friends avert their eyes.  Sadie needs a break.  Why not take on another mystery?

Summary

When a news article by Jane appears in the Denver Post all about Sadie Hoffmiller, Garrison starts whispering.  Is Sadie really a magnet for murder?  Is she the one actually causing all these deaths? 

Sadie needs to get out.  The opportunity arrives in the form of another mystery. May Sanderson doesn’t think her father died of a heart attack.  She enlists the help of Sadie to help solve the mystery.  Sadie puts her armature detective work to the test in finding the real reason May’s father died.  Along the way she discovers new recipes, broken relationships, new friends, and a surprise ending. 

WARNING: This contains spoilers on who Sadie chooses to be in a relationship with.

Personal Review

Blackberry Crumble wasn’t my favorite book in the Sadie Hoffmiller series.  It was slower paced, with Sadie mostly sitting in her car, cleaning out Mays father’s house, or making bacon ice-cream (the recipe is included in the book if you’re brave enough to try it).  Sadie comes by her answers more slowly than in previous books, and it’s not until the last couple chapters that we have any idea how Mays father died.  In the other books I felt we had suspects the whole time, and when the murder was revealed it wasn’t a huge surprise as it was in Blackberry Crumble nor did the murderer seem less like a murderer.

Sadie doesn’t discover much about herself in this book, except for the fact that she’s really hard to kill.  Her relationships with her family and Pete aren’t explored a whole lot (although she does question if Pete is really right for her).