Sadie Hoffmiller is still
running from danger. A threat was made against her life a year ago, and it’s
not safe for her to return home. Moving from place to place, hoping to keep her
enemies from picking up her trail, Sadie moves in with Caro, her boyfriend Pete’s
cousin, in Santa Fe. The Bureau of Land Management has asked her to follow up
on some employees on an archaeological dig, so she has something to do to keep
her mind off her troubles.
Digging in the dirt
sounded like fun at first, but now she’s starting to wonder. She dislikes
feeling grimy and sweaty all the time, but she does take satisfaction in
finding remnants of past civilizations hidden in the dry New Mexican ground.
One day on the dig, two
fresh bodies are discovered—well, fresher than the others they’ve found. And then
Margot, one of the workers on the team, turns up missing. Sadie has to
investigate—that’s what she does, after all—and before long, she’s in danger
herself as those behind the murders realize she’s not who she says she is. What
follows is a tale of danger, hot chocolate, red herrings, and hot air balloon
rides at the world-famous Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
Tres Leches Cupcakes is
the eighth volume in the Sadie Hoffmiller series, and it doesn’t appear that
our intrepid little detective is losing steam. Her no-nonsense approach, her
guts and determination, and her amazing recipes keep readers coming back for
more. Perhaps what’s best of all is that these books take everything we love
about mysteries and deliver us a story without gruesome details. We get dead
bodies but without overt detail, we get romance but without bed scenes, and we
get danger but without foul language. Readers know when they pick up a Sadie
Hoffmiller mystery that they can trust the contents to entertain without
offending.
My favorite part of this
book is found in the last pages. Picture Sadie crawling along beneath a trailer
home and popping up through a trapdoor into a closet, and then escaping the
same way—that made me giggle. Leave it to Sadie to do things her own way each
and every time.
There are other books yet
to come in the series, so stay tuned for more as they are released. You will
not be disappointed.
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