Ronna's Reviews > License to Dill

Pickling can keep fruits and vegetable yummy and preserved for a long time if you can be patient and not eat them all at once. Unfortunately, old boyfriends can't be preserved and spoil quickly when they keep butting into new blossoming love relationships. Piper Lamb moved to Cloverdale when her fiancé, Scott, left her. Now her pickling and preserves shop, Piper's Picklings, is a real success and her love life with tree farmer, Will, is going splendidly, if Scott would just stay out of the recipe.

Piper is pickling all kinds of things with dill and really appreciates the lovely fresh dill from Gerald Stanley's farm, but a dead body in his fields is definitely not a good thing. Worst of all, the corpse is a soccer player from a star Italian Soccer team that's visiting to play against the Cloverdale soccer team. Bad blood between Gerald and the dead man has not preserved into a good relationship. Piper needs to find the real killer to prove her friend's innocence.

I love cozies and this series is so original in it's concept that just thinking about a new one twitters my taste buds. There are great recipes included. Added in the soccer teams is fun because of this up and coming popular sport in our country. In this book, the blunderings between Will, Scott and Piper are a great bit of humor within the frustrations for Piper. The clues were especially good as Piper found and then lost suspects, and I did not figure out the culprit until Piper figured everything out--a sign of a great mystery for me. Nobody wants a fruitcake for a present, but everyone will want seconds of Piper's adventures. (I was blessed to read the ARC of this book, but everything I said constitutes my honest review--comes out 2/3/15)