Solving of the mysteries is rather boring than cosy
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This is an omnibus containing all three of the Windmill Café books published (so far), and I would not recommend reading them one after another since this is getting quite boring. It's always very near the beginning that some 'accident' happens involving one of the guests, and then Rosie, working at the Windmill Café, and Matt, owner of an outdoor activity center, team up to solve the case faster than the police. Their only means of doing that is by interviewing everyone from the circle of friends that came with the victim. Really, there is nothing else going on other than questioning all these people, sometimes combined with a bit of cooking and baking in the café. Only in the last part, "Christmas Trees", some additonal action is taking place.
I didn't know before that these books are rather cosy mysteries than chick-lit, but I wouldn't have minded that if the author did a good job of it. But solving a case only by talking to differenz people does get boring after a while, especially if those people have not much to tell other than "oh, i hated him because of..., but I swear I didn't do it". I mean, Lilly Rush and her team are basically only interviewing people as well to solve their "Cold Cases" in the TV show, but at least there is always something interesting happening in the flashbacks. Not so in this book.
Furthermore, Rosie and Matt are crossing of people from their list of suspects not because they found some evidence that prove that they are innocent. But only because of their "gut instincts" and so they are finally left with the person with the biggest motive.
The absence of real clues and evidence also makes it impossible for the reader to make his own guessings about the culprit, which would have been at least one reason to keep reading this book. But as it is I nearly put it away with a 'did-not-finish' label, because only reading about how Rosie and Matt get on with their cases don't generate any interest.
The little love-story between Rosie and Matt is also taking place so agonizing slow, that it would not have mattered if if weren't there at all and I surely didn't keep my fingers crossed for them - I simply didn't care.