Four Leaf Felony by Tonya Kappes [Review]

Four Leaf Felony (Holiday Cozy Mystery #1) by Tonya Kappes
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: June 12, 2025

Holiday Cozy Mystery
1. Four Leaf Felony - Paperback | Kindle
2. Mother's Day Murder
3. A Halloween Homicide
4. New Year Nuisance
5. Chocolate Bunny Betrayal
6. Fourth of July Forgery
7. Thanksgiving Treachery
8. Santa Claus Surprise
9. April Fool's Alibi
10. Columbus Day Conundrum
11. Holly Homicide
12. Father's Day Fugitive

Tonya Kappes
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

When reporter Violet Rhinehammer finally scores the interview of a lifetime, she’s eager to leave her small-town reputation behind and step into the spotlight. But her plans are grounded—literally—when she discovers a body in the airplane’s bathroom mid-flight, forcing an emergency landing in the quirky, holiday-obsessed village of Holiday Junction.

Stranded during their lively Shamrock Festival, Violet’s dream job hangs in the balance as the National Transportation Safety Board halts all flights. Determined to salvage her future, Violet steps into the role of amateur sleuth. With the help of new friends, local charmers, and a dashing security guard, she unravels clues amidst a town brimming with green festivities and eccentric personalities.

Will Violet uncover the truth in time to save her career, or will this mystery leave her stuck in more ways than one?

Thoughts on Four Leaf Felony: I feel like I need to give some backstory before I get into the meat of this review. This book didn't quite work for me, but I think it was me, not the book. See, I went from reading a couple of gloriously unhinged sci-fi horror books (the type that gave me nightmares) and needed something a LOT lighter. This is the book I went with and, yes, it was absolutely lighter, but it wasn't the best transitional piece between hardcore creeping horror and non-creeping horror.

So, yeah. It's me, not the book.

To be fair, I'm also not a fan of people being...I don't know how to put this. Like, malicious to others in a what they think is an amusing way? Yeah, that works. When Cherise filmed Violet for her eye in the sky segment with makeup running down her face, that's pretty much the opposite of funny to me. Which again, is a me thing.

But enough about me. Violet is the unfortunate individual who finds a dead body on a plane, the plane is rerouted to the small town of Holiday Junction where (oddly) both the victim and several other folks on the plane appear to be from. In an effort to speed up her delay in getting to California for a job interview (which her treatment by her potential boss is another thing that chapped my hide), Violet steps in to help investigate. Along the way, she uncovers some juicy Holiday Junction secrets and puts herself in a dangerous situation or two.

This wasn't a bad book, it was just the wrong book for me to read at the time.