They all have strong, lively personalities that help make them instantly memorable and helps to develop a cast of characters that readers will hope to encounter in sequels (and at least one they’ll love to hate). While I think the book doesn’t quite strike the perfect balance between these aspects, I still enjoyed learning more about these characters and discovering their secrets.Īlexander creates an interesting blend of characters, many of whom make strong impressions in just a few pages. I suspect that may reflect that the book has to balance establishing its characters, setting and interpersonal relationships with its mystery and perhaps that results in a slightly simpler mystery narrative. The mystery itself is entertaining though I don’t think a reader could reach the conclusion through evidence but simply through character intuition. I would also say she possesses an often very-entertaining narrative voice which does keep things lively. She is charming, hard-working and devoted to the people she cares about. We do learn that she was a foster kid and that is part of the reason she feels so close to Mac’s family and resents the idea of losing them. I found Sloan Krause a likable protagonist, although her backstory is not particularly detailed. It was a lunchtime gamble forced on me when I contrived to leave all of my books and my Kindle at home and had to find something off the new releases shelf at work and the fact that I finished it the same day speaks to how much I enjoyed it.
What attracted me to this novel was the fact I had never seen a cozy mystery set in that particular world and the way it grabbed me with its first sentence. I should probably confess at this point that I am not much of a drinker so words like nanobrewery mean little to me. Just as it seems that things are going well she discovers a body in one of the fermenting tanks and, worse still, it seems her husband is in the frame for murder. She is the only employee and has a lot of work to do pulling things together in time for their big launch. Kicking Mac out of their house, she has to start again and manages to secure a job working for a start-up nanobrewery. The protagonist, Sloan Krause, is a talented brewer who works with her husband’s family at their brewhaus but her world comes crashing apart when she walks in to discover her husband cheating on her with a barmaid. Death on Tap is the first in a new series of cozy mysteries set in the Bavarian-styled, beer-brewing village of Leavenworth, Washington.
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