Up to No Gouda by Linda Reilly

Available January 25, 2022

Vermont in the summer, melted cheese, a cute rescue pup, and a reunion with an old friend. Any one of these things is great all by itself, put them all together and they're awesome. Carly Hale has returned to her hometown of Balsam Dell, Vermont, to open a grilled cheese restaurant. Things are going great until her building goes up for sale and is purchased by an old flame who wants to throw her out. When he turns up dead outside her back door, she's the first suspect they turn to.

Carly is a great character, she's kind and strong and caring. The other characters are interesting too, unique enough you can always tell who's who as you're reading but not so different as to seem like caricatures. The mystery was complex, giving so many people a motive that you could never quite be sure who to blame. I wasn't able to figure out the killer and at the end kind of kicked myself for not seeing the connections.

I loved this book and was so glad to find out that Reilly has published other books. She's definitely going on my TBR pile!

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC.