Title: DEAD MEN DON'T CHEW GUM
Series: Martin & Owen Mystery #1
Author: Nina Cordoba
Publish Date: 03.30.2016
Publisher: Nina Cordoba
Category /Genre: Comedy, Romantic, Mystery
Recommended for: 14+ due to mature situation
Grammar/editing: book received as an
unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from: Nina Cordoba (as a gifted copy)
Goodreads link: Dead Men Don’t Chew Gum
Date completed: 10.15.2017
Description from the publisher:
Never take the shortcut.
With her job, apartment, and
boyfriend in New York suddenly gone, Rika Martín decides she’ll visit friends
down at South Padre Island, Texas before returning to L.A. to face her family.
But after she takes a short cut onto a desolate Texas highway at night and is
run off the road by a pickup truck, Rika can’t wait another minute to heed
nature’s call… and trips over a zombie!
Wait. Not a zombie. Just a dead guy,
and when she reports the body, the shady sheriff arrests her for the murder.
Nick Owen realizes it was a bad idea
to return to his hometown of Bolo, Texas to lick his wounds. Now, all he wants
is move away again. The only good things that have come from his time here are
his two resolutions: 1. No more rescuing damsels in distress. It always leads
to a world of hurt. 2. No more murder trials. Not after what happened last
time.
But when he stops by the courthouse
to pick up his friend Gabe—a.k.a. Judge Martinez—for a round of golf, he’s forced
to act as attorney for a very attractive female murder suspect. Even worse,
this “Paprika Anise Martín”—if you can believe that—seems more determined to
solve the murder case than to defend herself against it in court.
With too many suspects and not
enough evidence, can Nick and Rika resolve this case and get her out of town
before the real murderer gets rid of her for good?
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DEAD MEN DON'T CHEW GUM is the first
in the Martin and Owen mystery series.
While each does stand on its own, it is better to read them in the order
of release.
This was the first book I have read
from Nina Cordoba and I must say she has found a fan! It is a wonderful cozy mystery with a
promising romance and plenty of humor - like when that title makes sense (OMG).
I loved this story and I am looking
forward to reading more in the series.
Note: while I was given this book as a gifted copy,
my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Martin & Owen Mystery series:
1.
Dead Men Don’t Chew Gum
2.
Dead Men Don’t Eat Quiche
Also from Nina Cordoba:
·
Don’t Make Me Make You Brownies
·
Mia Like Crazy
Dreaming
Series:
1.
Not Dreaming of You
2.
Always Dreaming of You
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