Body and Soul Food

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Body and Soul Food by Abby Collette

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Keaton and Koby are twins separated in early life. Keaton was lucky. She ended up with a protective, sheltering actually, parents while Koby remained in the foster system until he aged out. That said, he did have a strong mother figure from his time there and found family siblings like Reef. Now reunited, the twins are opening a combo restaurant (Koby's) and bookstore (Keaton). Koby is more easy going. Keaton is anxious and has a bit of a crush on Reef.

To their horror, Reef is killed and the police are looking at them (but of course since that's almost inevitable in the first book of a cozy mystery). Reef has left Koby an inheritance he didn't expect, a houseboat among other things but oddly enough other people at the harbor were on the train when Reef died. Keaton sees parallels to her beloved Agatha Christie and Murder on the Orient Express.

Desperate to find Reef's killer and to clear their names, the twins go after the clues and their mothers are there to help (also they do want to find their birth mother but that's a story for a future birth). There are some annoying (to me) things like them not telling the police things that most people would (especially since they might clear them) but that's also typical of cozy mysteries. I'm not a fan of cozies with hostile police (or inept ones). The detective here isn't overly hostile and he has reason to suspect them so it worked for me.

I enjoyed meeting Keaton and Koby (and the author at the Ohioana book festival) and I am looking forward to more of the series.



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