Death of an Ice Cream Scooper by Lee Hollis

Available July 26, 2022

Rating: 5 stars

Hayley Powell is in for a summer she'll never forget! Her son Dustin is visiting from California with a few surprises up his sleeve, Hayley's Kitchen has been an instant success, and the local ice cream hot spot is harboring more than its share of deep, dark secrets.

I absolutely love this series and read everything this author publishes. This book did not disappoint! Though I do enjoy those series where the characters never age, there's something kind of special about series like this where you get to watch the kids grow up and leave home, people get married or divorced, students graduating from high school and college, and people ending careers and beginning new ones. Over the course of a dozen or more books you almost become part of the family. Having been to Bar Harbor I connect with this series even more, being able to picture some of the places they talk about.

There's not much I can say about this book without dropping spoilers right and left, but suffice it to say that Hayley does a lot of investigating and her life is turned upside down. There are also some really delicious-sounding ice cream recipes! If you haven't read this series, now is a good time to start. You'll want to binge read them all!

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC.