Welcome to my stop on the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour for Soft Serve Sleighing (Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries) by Lena Gregory! Today we are featuring a review of book five in this delicious cozy mystery series. Stop by each blog on the tour  for interviews, guest posts, spotlights, reviews, and more! There is also a Rafflecopter Giveaway for a $25 Amazon Gift Card. ENTER HERE!

Soft Serve Sleighing (Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries)

Cozy Mystery

5th in Series

Setting – Long Island, NY

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gemma Halliday Publishing (January 28, 2025)

Number of Pages – 226

Kindle ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DLHPWDNT

About the Book:

From author Lena Gregory comes a delightfully delicious cozy mystery…

With most of Eastern Long Island closed down for a blizzard, Danika Delaney and her friends are holed up in her old fashioned malt shop, the Coffee & Cream Café, with ice cream and hot chocolate. However, their plans to wait out the storm in cozy company are interrupted when a popular YouTuber and her two companions show up at the door—they’ve been trapped by the storm, and Dani generously offers to serve them breakfast. But her generosity isn’t rewarded in kind, as the reviewer then tries to extort money from Dani in exchange for a good review! When the storm finally clears, Dani is happy to have seen the last of them.

Or so she thought.

Dani and her friends decide to go sleigh riding the morning after the storm clears, but instead of a winter wonderland, they find the extorting YouTuber…dead! To make matters worse, Dani suddenly finds herself accused of the woman’s murder. Intent on restoring her reputation, Dani sets out to prove she didn’t do it. This is one storm she’s not sure she can weather…

 My Review:

Another entertaining entry in such a page-turning cozy mystery series! I love being back with Dani and her friends, and this time in the middle of a blizzard. The writing is so vivid I felt chilled while reading it – easily visualizing the huge drifts of snow. The combination of the cozy details of Dani’s delicious cafe and the twists and turns of a well-plotted and layered mystery made for a story I inhaled in one day! I didn’t see the resolution coming and let me tell you, it was a nail-biter. I kept wondering how Dani would find her way out of this mess. There’s also a lovely bit towards the end about Dani and her romantic life that I adored. Just a great cozy mystery series featuring wonderful characters in a charming small town. I almost feel like I’m watching a TV show as I get lost in these stories! 

About the Author:

Lena Gregory is the author of the Bay Island Psychic Mysteries, which take place on a small island between the north and south forks of Long Island, New York, the All-Day Breakfast Café Mysteries, which are set on the outskirts of Florida’s Ocala National Forest, the Mini-Meadows Mysteries, set in a community of tiny homes in Central Florida, and the Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries, which take place in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, New York.

Lena grew up in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, but she recently traded in cold, damp, gray winters for the warmth and sunshine of central Florida, where she now lives with her husband, three kids, son-in-law, and four dogs. Her hobbies include spending time with family, reading, and walking. Her love for writing developed when her youngest son was born and didn’t sleep through the night. She works full-time as a writer and a freelance editor and is a member of Sisters in Crime.

Author Links:

Newsletter – Website – Facebook – Facebook Page – Twitter – Goodreads – Pinterest

Purchase Links: Amazon – B&N – Kobo

TOUR PARTICIPANTS:

• January 28 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
• January 28 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic – AUTHOR GUEST POST, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY
• January 28 – fundinmental – SPOTLIGHT
• January 29 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
• January 29 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW
• January 30 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY
• January 31 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – REVIEW
• January 31 –  Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
• February 1 – Frugal Freelancer – CHARACTER INTERVIEW, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY
• February 1 – Elizabeth McKenna – Author – SPOTLIGHT
• February 2 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW
• February 2 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
• February 3 – Angel’s Book Nook – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
• February 3 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – CHARACTER GUEST POST
• February 4 – Ruff Drafts – AUTHOR GUEST POST
• February 4 – Cassidy’s Bookshelves – SPOTLIGHT
• February 5 – Novels Alive – REVIEW
• February 5 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
• February 6 – Rebecca M. Douglass, Author – REVIEW
• February 6 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
• February 7 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW
• February 7 – StoreyBook Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
• February 8 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT
• February 9 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – REVIEW
• February 10 – Deal Sharing Aunt – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
• February 10 – Sarah Can’t Stop Reading Books – REVIEW

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