Death in the Park by London Lovett [Review]

Death in the Park (Firefly Junction Mystery #1) by London Lovett
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: February 4, 2021

Firefly Junction Mystery
1. Death in the Park - Paperback | Kindle
2. Killer Bridal Party
3. Murder at the Inn
4. A Humbug Holiday
5. Calamity at the Carnival
6. Double Trouble
7. Havoc at Wildwood Manor
8. Fatal Feud
9. Trick or Trouble
10. A Crafty Killing
11. Death at the Museum
12. Murder at the Pumpkin Patch
13. Founders' Day Fiasco
14. Heat Wave Homicide
15. Terror at Thornbridge Hotel
16. Chocolate Festival Felony
17. Movie Night Madness
18. Figgy Pudding Disaster

Related Series:
(find all the books in the series on the 1st book review)
Port Danby
1. Marigolds and Murder

London Lovett
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

With her social life and writing career in tatters at the ripe old age of thirty-five, Sunni Taylor decides to pack up her things and join her sisters, Lana and Emily, in the small town of Firefly Junction. Hoping to open a bed and breakfast, Sunni sets herself the task of refurbishing the rundown Cider Ridge Inn, a two-hundred-year-old house with a sordid past. In the meantime, she's stuck writing dull human interest stories for the Junction Times. But when Sunni decides to bend the rules on her first newspaper assignment, she soon finds herself in her favorite place—right in the center of a murder investigation. Now if she can just steer clear of the cocky, irritating and far too appealing local detective , Brady "Jax" Jackson.

It isn't long before Sunni discovers that avoiding Jax is a piece of cake compared to staying clear of the equally cocky, irritating and far too appealing two-hundred-year-old ghost haunting the halls of the Cider Ridge Inn.

Thoughts on Death in the Park: Cozies are kind of hitting the spot right now, so I decided to dive into Firefly Junction and Sunni Taylor's world. Sunni's...well, she's pretty cool. She's the proud owner of a rundown manor house she's looking to turn into an inn (after A LOT of restoration and repair, mind you), she's starting a new job at the local newspaper (because restoring her old house isn't going to pay for itself), she absolutely doesn't believe in ghosts (no way, no how), and the hunky detective she keeps crossing paths with is on her mind (Hellllllo, Jax!).

Oh, and she also has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. Or the wrong place seeing as how she keeps putting herself in iffy situations. Regardless, her journalistic nose keeps her on her toes as she follows clues and her intuition to piece together what's what when a body turns up.

You know that thing I mentioned about ghosts? How she absolutely doesn't believe in them? Yeaaaaaah. That belief takes a sharp right when her resident ghosts decides to show himself. Because what's a big, rundown, soon-to-be inn without a resident ghost?

Family, a hunky detective, a rather arrogant ghost, and a string of clues that keeps Sunni moving toward answers. I'm digging Firefly Junction and Sunni Taylor. *thumbs up*