No Parm No Foul by Linda Reilly

Available July 26, 2022

Rating: 4 stars

Carly Hale is getting grilled by her competition in the local Halloween festival food competition. Ferris Menard publicly accuses her of poaching his employees until several of Carly's friends step in to defend her. Though Carly is satisfied to let the competition be settled by the voters, Ferris has other plans.

There were many twists and turns in this book and even the most seemingly innocent news takes on a whole new significance. Carly is faced with several puzzles and the stakes are very high as the police hone in on their favorite suspect - Carly's new boyfriend, Ari.

I loved the ending, there were so many things tied together and it was very clever. One thing I didn't care for was how Carly got upset with Ari, seeing him as being controlling and predicting the demise of their blossoming relationship over something that I felt was quite insignificant and justified on Ari's part. Ari's a great character and I hope he sticks around. The rest of the characters are also fun, though everyone is perhaps overly goody-goody. Nothing wrong with that necessarily but it eliminates all of them as potential suspects in future books, which is unfortunate.

Overall I've enjoyed this series so far and do plan to continue reading it.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC.