A good book. Well written with great characters and a good plot. The storyline flows and the mystery is enjoyable. I highly recommend.,

A cozy mystery that makes you want to pack up and move there (yep, even with MURDER!). Great plot, atmosphere and fantastic characters- everything that gives a cozy the charm we love! Another GREAT book in the series!

Welcome back to Boggy Creek! The great characters in this story take us on another fun-filled roller coaster ride to discover who wants Gia out of the neighborhood, while figuring out who done it when another body shows up in the neighborhood. Alongside Savannah, Hunt and Leo, Gia fights to keep her restaurant in the neighborhood when the council wants to rezone the area of town in which her business is located. Unexpectedly, the leader of the council winds up dead and the rollicking ride begins to find out what happened. I enjoy the fast paced sequence of events and enjoy the characters in this series so much! You'll find yourself clinching your teeth through a tornado and looking over your shoulder for unexpected strangers watching during the course of this story. I'm so excited to catch up on book 3 very soon!

This second book in An All-Day Breakfast Café Mystery series is filled with twists and turns, threats, laughter and some great sounding food! Gia has moved to Boggy Creek but the future is in question because of an old zoning statute being highlighted by a city council member but when Gia finds that person dead, things seem a bit too convenient. Great structure to the mystery. Looking forward to more.

Nothing like a run in with City Hall to make a mystery interesting! Zoning laws do tend to change over time, and Gia hadn't realized that her All Day Breakfast Café was opened illegally. Instead of heading back to New York, Gia rolls up her sleeves to discover what secrets are hidden in City Hall and who killed Steers. There are a lot of twists to keep the mystery going and the characters are wonderful.

Lena has done it again with another incredible installment is this cozy mystery series. Gia is just getting settled into a routine in her new home when her breakfast shop is threatened by some zoning laws. Things are getting heating when a dead body shows up throwing Gia right in the middle of it all whether she wants to be or not. What follows is plenty of twists and turns as the author keeps us on our toes wondering what is going to happen next. Mixed in between in good food and great characters that will really keep you hooked on the story until you hit the last page. A must read for fans of the genre. I totally loved it so it gets 5/5 stars.

MURDER MADE TO ORDER is so good, y'all! I think you'll really enjoy it.

I like how native New Yorker Gia has begun to feel at home in Boggy Creek, Florida. She's met a lot of people there, mostly friends — and some even feel like family. Gia is surprised, even shocked, to discover (during the events of MURDER MADE TO ORDER) that someone she believed to be an enemy was possibly an ally, and someone else who was surely an ally turns out to be an enemy.

These are just two of the twists and turns that make MURDER MADE TO ORDER so hard to put down. It's amazing, and I can't wait to read the next All-Day Breakfast Café Mystery, A COLD BREW KILLING. I highly recommend MURDER MADE TO ORDER — five stars!

This is book 2 in the All-Day Breakfast Cafe mystery series and it's a great continuation of Scone Cold Killer. Gia is settling well into the small Florida community where she runs a small diner. When town council tries to shut her down in order to take her property she considers heading back to New York. When she finds the body of the the council president she starts investigating and finds there are a lot of secrets around city hall. All the regulars at the diner are back and it's great to visit with them. I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Gia Morelli is having second thoughts about leaving NYC to live near the Ocala National Forest in Florida. Snakes and bears are bad enough, then she learns snakes come in human form too. Someone is trying to close down her All Day Breakfast Cafe on a zoning issue that had been dormant for decades. Discovering a body in the forest, she has to investigate to figure out what's happening before something bad happens to her.

A good cozy that got better as I kept reading. Rounding up from 3.5 stars.

We are back! And murder is on deck. I love the little place that Gia has started. I always can feel the warm breeze and see the charming little town in my mind.
Enjoyable Moments

So Gia seemed a bit unsure about her future at the end of the first book, I know she stayed but I didn’t know if she would continue to. She showed such passion for her place that I know now she won’t leave. I think that made this story for me, seeing Gia willing to fight for her cafe.
Synoptic

This is one of those mysteries that is so cozy it’s cute. I just love Gia and the gang plus I love her cafe. I think we will see more from Gia in the future and I would love to see her do some holiday fun! After solving this mystery I think she can handle anything!

Murder Made to Order

by Lena Gregory

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to move from cold, urban New York to small town Florida complete with snakes, alligators, and monkeys, try reading Murder Made to Order. In this cozy mystery, Gia’s diner, the All-Day Breakfast Café, is in danger of being shut down because of zoning regulations. When Gia finds the town council’s president dead, things get complicated.

Not even sure she wants to live in Florida, Gia finds herself in the middle of a forest fire, a tornado, and a murder investigation. On the plus side, however, are her supportive friend of ten years Savannah, her potential boyfriend Hunt, and a lot of encouraging townsfolk.

Author Lena Gregory draws the reader into Murder Made to Order with a good background, interesting characters, and surprising complications. Along the way you learn a lot of interesting things about life near the Ocala National Forest.

I would like to extend my thanks to netgalley.com and to Lyrical Underground (Kensington Press) for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Rating: 5/5

Category: Mystery

Notes: #2 in the All-Day Breakfast Café Mystery Series, but works as a standalone.

Publication: June 19, 2018 — Kensington Press (Lyrical Underground)

Memorable Lines:

Gia stood in the middle of the living room and stared out the window. Rain pounded against the house. Lightning flashed, bolt after bolt, illuminating the yard. Mesmerizing. The tall, thin palm tree outside her front window bent in half.

“Twenty-one years old, barely old enough to drink, and he struts in like he owns the place. Drunk as a skunk and dumber than a bag of rocks, carryin’ on about how his daddy was going to own the place.”

Gia watched them walk away, realizing nothing united a community the way tragedy did. It seemed the need to help others brought out the best in people.

Murder Made to Order by Lena Gregory is the 2nd book in the All Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery series.Gia Morelli is our main character who has moved moved from New York to Florida and opened her all day breakfast cafe. When Gia receives a letter from the town stating she is opened illegally and will be shut down she is devastated.Things only get worse when council president Marcia Steers is found dead.
I enjoyed this story and recommend it to others who enjoy a fast paced cozy mystery.

I volunteered to read and review an ARC of this book offered by the publisher and NetGalley

I really enjoy this author. I loved the first book in this series and in my opinion it only gets better with this book. It's an easy light read. I look forward to more in this series.

"Murder Made to Order" was my first Lena Gregory book, and while it was second in this series, I was able to grasp the plot well and very much enjoyed getting to know these characters. In fact, Gia was one of the best cozy heroines I've come across in a while, and I instantly bonded with her and her dog Thor. Her friend Savannah was a great sidekick, and I liked the other supporting characters as well. I also found the All-Day Breakfast Café had a nice, cozy ambiance, and I particularly loved how *giving* Gia was to her newly adopted town, even looking out for a homeless man and serving the community responders at a time of need. The profanity, while slight, could be omitted next time to make this an even better, and more frequently recommended, book. A nice introduction to this author!

Lena Gregory's Murder Made to Order is the second book in the All Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery series. Gia is finally settling in to her new life in Florida with her breakfast cafe. She discovers her cafe is in jeopardy due to a zoning regulation. When Gia discovers the city council leader dead in the woods, she has another mystery to solve. This book has several side plots, and the mystery had me guessing until the end. I am already looking forward to book three in the series!

Thank you Net Galley for my ARC. This is the first book in this series I have read. Definitely enjoyed it and would recommend. I found the storyline to be very interesting.

Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie

Second in Lena Gregory’s new All Day Breakfast Cafe series, I enjoyed this mystery even more than the first one, Scone Cold Killer. The characters continue to be likable, coming to life through realistic dialog and action. Gia continues to waffle on whether she should stay in Florida or move back home to the Big Apple, and recent events could make that decision for her. The mystery is multifaceted and hard to solve. As with the first, Gia and Savannah give a marvelous demonstration of true friendship, no matter the cost.

Gia has been winning the hearts and appetites of folks in Boggy Creek, Florida, with the excellent food she serves at the All-Day Breakfast Cafe. She was not anticipating the news from the town council: they discovered that the Cafe is zoned as residential, and therefore must be shut down. No matter that the last business there had been a bar before the building sat empty, or that every other shop on the block is zoned for business. While it sounded like the decision was already made, Savannah was not going to let her throw in the apron just yet.

The president of the town council, Marcia Steers, was unwilling to move on her position to close down the cafe. Days before the upcoming vote at the town council meeting, Marcia came to the cafe. She wanted to meet with Gia, and made arrangements to come in the following day. The next morning, Gia and her sweet pup Thor went hiking and found Marcia facedown, partially in the lake. Captain Hayes was first on the scene. When Hunt, the police detective, and Savannah’s cousin, arrives, he and Hayes get into a loud fight. Hayes took him off the case because Hunt and Marcia used to date, and rumor had it they were secretly dating again. He had been showing a tremendous interest in Gia…while he was getting back together with an ex?

Finding a clue Marcia left Gia’s office, she and Savannah begin looking at the property records for the cafe. The file was empty, and the person who most recently borrowed the contents was Marcia. Clues also involve Savannah’s mother’s murder from 20 years earlier; Hayes had messed up the original investigation by accusing her father of the murder. Now Savannah wants justice for her mother and wants Gia to solve this murder as she had an earlier one. Gia is now in a race to find information to help keep her cafe open and find a killer or two.

Gia and Savannah are a delightful, dynamic duo! There is little the two best friends can’t do when they get together. I so enjoy seeing them get their heads together and encourage each other! They are by far my favorites in the series, with the only possible exception being Thor. These ladies, and all other characters are very well defined.

The plot is fresh and exciting, with unexpected plot twists and suspects. From natural to man-made challenges, Gia faces more in a week than many do in a year. Even amidst the possible loss of her cafe and the probability that Hunt and Marcia had been back together, she comes to some startling realizations. The way the author brings past and present together is impressive. It was hard to figure out, through the various players and layers of deceptions, who the real bad guy(s) might be. The explosive ending reveals far more than just the bad guys, giving a more than satisfactory resolution. This mystery surpasses the first in series in every way. While it can be read as a standalone, it shows Gia’s first weeks in Boggy Creek. I highly recommend Murder Made to Order to those who like well-written cozy mysteries, cozy cafes, pups, and Florida.

*OBS would like to thank the publisher for supplying a free copy of this title in exchange for an honest review*

Murder Made to Order by Lena Gregory is the second book in An All-Day Breakfast Café Mystery series. Gia Morelli has been settling into her new life in Boggy Creek, Florida when she receives a startling letter from Marcia Steers, the president of the city council. It seems that the building for the café is zoned residential and Gia will have to close the café. Before Gia can act, a nervous Marcia stops by and schedules a meeting with Gia for Monday. Before their meeting can take place, Gia and Thor stumble over a dead Marcia half submerged in muck in the woods. Captain Hayes and Detective Quinn Hunter quickly arrive, but after a disagreement, Captain Hayes tosses Quinn off the case. Following the clues, Gia finds that the issue regarding her café started twenty years ago and can be related to the death of Savannah Mill’s mother. But someone is not happy with Gia’s snooping and attempts to shut her down permanently.

Murder Made to Order can be read alone. Everything a reader needs to know is included in this installment in the series. Murder Made to Order is easy to read and has a steady pace throughout. I thought Murder Made to Order was an improvement over Scone Cold Killer. Gia is settling into life in Boggy Creek, but she has doubts when the future of her café is in jeopardy. One of my favorite characters is Earl. He was the café’s first customer and has been a loyal customer as well as friend ever since. There are many cozy moments in Murder Made to Order. Cooking, visiting with Savannah, spending time with Quinn, taking care of Thor (her large and adorable dog), kayaking, eating, hiking and chatting. I am still having trouble warming up to Gia. Her terror of things related to nature continues in this book. Gia should have moved into the apartment over the café instead of finding a home surrounded by woods (which she walks in regularly). She is afraid of bears, spiders, ticks, snakes (I can relate to this one), and tornadoes in Murder Made to Order. Gia overreacts (panic attacks, hyperventilates) when confronted with things that scare her. The author intends it to be humorous, but it loses its humor the more times it happens. The mystery had some good aspects (multiple suspects, misdirection, good clues), but it was a cinch to pick out the guilty party. It is nice how the townspeople rally around to help each other out in troubling times. I like the small-town atmosphere of Boggy Creek. My rating for Murder Made to Order is 3.5 out of 5 stars. I am curious to see what happens to Gia next in An All-Day Breakfast Café Mystery series (let’s hope she does not encounter a panther).

Murder Made to Order is the second installment in the All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery series set in the small town of Boggy Creek, FL and featuring cafe owner, Gia Morelli. The town council has notified Gia that they have discovered a mistake in the zoning laws and they are going to close down her cafe as the building is actually located in a residential area and not zoned for commercial use.

Determined to save her business, Gia teams up with best friend Savannah Mills, and her loyal first customer in the cafe, Earl to take on the town council. To Gia's dismay, Maybelle Sanford is one of the council members, and she knows that the woman still harbors bad feelings after Gia fired her for being lazy and would like nothing more than to see the restaurant close. Marcia Steers is the president of the council and although she also appears adamant to close down the restaurant, she does ask for a mysterious meeting with Gia. Unfortunately, before Gia can find out what the woman wants she stumbles over her dead body in the middle of a marsh.

There are plenty of suspects to choose from and with the help of Savannah's boyfriend, Officer Leo Dumont and Detective Hunter Quinn, Gia soon discovers that Marcia's death is tied to decades old Boggy Creek feuds including the unsolved murder of Savannah's mother and the untimely death of a local boy. It's not long before Gia finds herself and her furry sidekick, Thor the target of a killer.

A fast paced plot with a cozy community feel. The only thing that does get old is Gia's constant anxiety attacks when faced with going home alone or having to do any outside activities and that includes walking her dog. I hope that the author lets up a little in future episodes or else she moves Gia into town and away from her remote wilderness home, because the constant references to snakes, bears, spiders and ticks takes away from the main story line and becomes very frustrating.

I received an advanced copy of Murder Made to Order from NetGalley via Lyrical Underground, a division of Kensington Publishing. While not required to write a review I am more than happy to offer my honest opinion.

This was an light, entertaining read. Perfect length for a cozy mystery—long enough for the story to be complete; short enough to hold your interest. The characters were quirky and fun. I loved the friendship between Gia and Savannah and felt it set the tone for the whole story. The mystery had interesting twists and turns. This was a clean story. There were no embarrassing scenes and just one or two instances of very mild language. This was my first book to read in the series, but I’ll be reading more from the author.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher. I was not required to give a positive review. All opinions are my own.