Lemon Pies and Little White Lies

Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series #4

By: Ellery Adams

Narrated by: C. S. E Cooney

Ella Mae LeFaye's Charmed Pie Shoppe has become a phenomenon beyond her wildest dreams, providing the enchanted town of Havenwood, Georgia, with spellbinding desserts and magical pies. Her personal life is also heating up as she takes on the responsibilities of leadership within her magical community. In fact the only thing weighing her down is the fact that handsome Hugh Dylan won't return her calls.

Still, when Havenwood is rocked by a series of mysterious deaths, Ella Mae must put romantic longings aside, especially when she realizes that the mystical symbols left at each crime scene are dangerously personal. Now she will have to whip up all her supernatural skills to uncover a killer out to settle an ancient score before the murderer devastates everything Ella Mae is determined to protect.

©2015 Ellery Adams (P)2016 Tantor

Very enjoyable!

I really liked the balance of carefree, fun, friendship, passionate pie baking, family and small town life with the suspenseful, mysterious, magical and mystical life surrounding it. I also like the recipes and baking hints even though I don't bake pies 😊.

entertaining

enjoyed this book which is part of a series
it is light listening and allows the listener to enter a world of fantasy and escape from everyday stress.....

Mystical

I’m enjoying the series of books - this one was more “other-worldly”, but I still wanted to find out how it was going to end. I look forward to the next in the series.

Depth of characters!!

Loved all of it Ellery Adams brings her characters to life! I am looking forward to Breach of Crust!

I love this series..

But I live in Georgia and I really wish the narrator would stop dropping her g's at the end of words that end in "ing". We drawl, but we're not hicks.

more urban fantasy than cozy mystery.

this story got even more wierd than usual for this series. I dont really associate magical battles with the genre.

Wonderful

I really enjoyed this magical series. Plenty of happy endings and mystery. Great summer read.

Review

I loved the first two and I enjoyed this one. However it just became long.

I won't read anymore in this series.

I really like Ellery Adams books. Although I wish she would stick to mysteries instead of tossing romances in the mix, I think her books are well crafted. I chose this series because I liked the others, Book Retreat, Bayside Book Writers and the Secrect Scone @ Book Society. I found this book series charming, whimsical and a surprise. As a hard core sci fi lover this series took me by happy surprise. This book finished for me. I won't spoil it for those who want to read it, but I am unhappy with the character development and I won't continue with the series. She took what was magical about it away and I miss it.

Disappointed with the ending

Although I love these books, I've always struggled with the narrator. She just always felt like an odd fit, but I stuck with the stories because I enjoyed them so much. But then came this book, and I feel betrayed by the storyline. In the end, it wasn't the narrator that made me give up on the Charmed Pie Shoppe; it was the story. Can't recommend. Can't say more without spoilers.