I requested this book because the cover caught my eye and the title was clever. I didn't realize it was the third book in a series but even with that it can be read without reading the first two. I did not go into this book thinking it was going to be some great mystery/thriller and instead I read it for some light and fun reading. It was a good cozy mystery. I enjoyed the characters, even though most may not based on them being rude, snotty rich people. Overall this book was ok and I enjoyed the main character Plum. She was easily likeable which made me like the book more. Thank you NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for allowing me to have an ARC for my honest review.

I love this series! Every book feels like a vacation and makes me want to eat lots of fruit and adult beverages. Keep them coming!

I have mixed emotions about this book. On one hand, there was a lot of humor, and I actually laughed out loud. On the other hand, this one felt more unrealistic, and at times I actually felt a little lost. Still enjoy the characters, just this plot did not flow as easily as the other two books. Will look for the next book when released,
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

The Girl with the Dragonfruit Tattoo is a cozy tropical mystery that unfortunately for me I didn’t connect with. There are just times when a reader doesn’t enjoy a story for whatever reason. It is no fault to the story nor to the reader.

The positives in my view: the title: what a fun pun it is and how I LOVE a good pun. The cover: the cover screams mystery, tropical and fun! It really caught my eye and had me immediately interested in the story behind it. The plot: the plot is great, and I liked the mystery mixed with the island feel. The mix of characters and antics were good, and I had a time guessing the outcome. That is always a good thing in my book.

Now the negatives: really the things that put me off were the fact that 1) this isn’t a true standalone story. I didn’t know that I needed to read the stories before it to utterly understand the world and the main character. 2) that leads me into my other negative, the main character Plum. Her contrive, arrogant, childish, and rude to the point where I wasn’t rooting for her and wanted her less on the page and well, as the main character that is a major bummer. I don’t know if this personally is her true and constant personality or if there was something that happened in the earlier stories that explained this attitude, but I had an exceedingly tough time reading about her and wanting her to be the “hero” of the story. Unfortunately, that is a major hurtle for me to get over and the rest of the story didn’t satisfy enough to cover my feelings for her. And 3) there is extraordinarily little logic within this story AT ALL. There is no reason for Plum to be investigation the death/mystery, there is no logic to the rules of the police procedures throughout, there is no logic to real world life and how rules and nature go and being that this is fiction, I can overlook some of those but overall, there is no logical base to any aspect of the story, so I was never connected.

Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for an ARC of this story and I am leaving my honest review.

Thank you Poisoned Pen and NetGalley for this arc!
The cover and the title of this one gets all the starts from me and there were some entertaining moments. But there also definitely were points where i felt disconnected and didn't really care for the main character.

Thank you Netgalley and Poisoned Pen for allowing me to read this book in exchange for a review!!

The Girl with the Dragonfruit Tattoo's cover is beautiful and along with the sypnosis I thought I would be a tropical cozy mystery novel. Although it was tropical and a mystery it did not appeal to me in the way I thought it would.

I did not know this was a part of a series of books and I felt there was some disconnected because I was unfamiliar with some of the characters and the world. Regardless, I found Plum to be annoying and not enjoyable to read about it. I also felt the plot to be unpredictable, which could be a good thing. However, there were inconsistencies with clues. Additionally, I felt the book to drag on. Overall, I did not enjoy this book.

This book was part of a series, and since I didn't read the first ones I was a little lost but not so much that I couldn't follow! Honestly I wanted to like the book, and there was some good parts that were clever! However the main character was really annoying and hard to connect with during the book. She wasn't really likeable, and didn't really need to be there if that makes sense, but she was there to help move the story along.
It definitely felt like a CLUE style murder mystery at the end which was interesting but overall it was really hard to get super into. I like the plot a lot and I would like to re-read it if I read the first 2 books which might help me understand the characters a bit better!

Plum’s old friend Ellen comes to the island on a yacht for vaction with a wealthy music executive. When a girl with the dragonfruit tattoo ends up dead Plum is sent under cover to find out what happened.

This instalment of the seties had an entirely different feel then the previous books. Plum was on a yacht most of the book with an entirely new cast of Characters. It had a Agatha Christie feel to it, especially the big revealI. I liked that their was alot of info about sea turtles and that it patained to they mystery not just some info thrown in.

I enjoyed the book alot but I did miss the interaction with Juan Kevin and wished Gerald would have been in the book more. I will be looking forward to the next book on the series.

Thank you Netgallery and Poison Pen for the ARC

So good!!!
This book had me laughing out loud several times.

Plum is invited on a luxury yacht by an old friend and it’s filled with rich people and celebrities. She’s approached by someone on the yacht to help her justice for someone who they feel was killed, but before they can give her all of the details they are killed instead! Plum is tasked to go under cover and discover who is the killer.

I really love the dynamic between Plum and Cap’t Diaz - their back and forths are so funny! And I loved the ending because I hate Damien!

How gorgeous is this cover? If this book doesn't scream tropical vacation vibes, I don't know what does? Except of course when murder is involved. Plum is plodding along with her life when she gets an invitation from an old friend to a lavish dinner party on a yacht. Sounds fab until a server turns up murdered and Plum is asked for her assistance from investigators. She didn't know she was ready for police work! What could possibly go wrong?

More quirky than mystery, but an enjoyable easy breezy read. This is the third in its series, but reading the first two is not needed to enjoy this!

Plum is on a cruise with wealthy snobs when the police ask for her help. It's a good story, the setting is excellent but at times I felt alittle lost. Good characters. Thanks #netgalley and #PoisonedPenPress for the eARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are mine.

This ARC was provided to me via Kindle, from Poisioned Pen Press and #NetGalley. Thank you for the opportunity to preview and review. Opinions expressed are completely my own.


Carrie Doyle is a master. You won;t want to put this one down once you start reading, so make it a night in.

The Girl with the Dragonfruit Tattoo is the 3rd book in the Trouble in Paradise! Mysteries written by Carrie Doyle. I've read the author's Hamptons-based series and her stand-alone suspense novel, and I began this collection earlier in the year. While some may expect this to align more with the popular Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, it's a lot more reminiscent of a few Agatha Christie novels. I applaud the author's play on words and complex, layered story where multiple crimes happen and the protagonist needs to solve them all, despite merely being a magazine editor and a real estate maven. The police have actually asked for help this time -- which seems odd and unlikely but it IS a small island and makes for a good story -- and Plum is stuck on a large ship in the Caribbean where the only person she knows is a friend who happened to be in town.

Filled with oceanic dramas, horrible wealthy attitudes, and some fun island scenery, the story takes Plum to new heights... she's much more likable now, and her relationship with Juan Kevin tones her down some. I missed the highs and lows she used to bring but the balance is perfect. Loved her duel with a fellow real estate agent, and the drama with Juan Kevin's other love interest makes for a nice side story. The murder plot came together nicely and I truly thought it was going in a different direction. But the ending was superb and I found myself smiling thru the entire read. Lucia is fantastic. Gerald is still a puzzle. Great job!

With a title like that I thought there would be a dynamic plot and some intrigue. Instead, there were bad celebrity impersonations, mundane details, and very little common sense. I didn't care about the romantic subplot because the author didn't give me reason to. Why does Plum, the main character, want a guy with a troublesome clingy ex who crashes their date? Why do the police ask her to go undercover, she has zero qualifications and no back-up? Why do they let people they think may be committing crimes leave their jurisdiction? Why does the author spend so much time describing their clothes when it has nothing to do with the plot? The author tries to tell too many stories and it drags on the main plotline. Thanks to Net Galley, Poisoned Pen Press and Carrie Doyle for the arc.

As other reviewers I didn't realize that this was the third book in a series, however, I think this could work as a standalone read (there were only a few parts where I felt like I was missing some backstory).
I have never read something in the cozy mystery genre and I really enjoyed it. It was a fun book to read on the beach and I loved the setting of a whodunit on a yacht.
There were a handful of characters I found a bit irritating and unlikeable (the cast of characters on the yacht are not the nicest people). Plus, I found that our protagonist Plum's detective skills to be a bit lackluster, and the resolution to be a bit rushed.
Overall I enjoyed it--a great read for summer. I am curious to read the others in the series now.

I received this book from NetGalley.

The colorful and beautiful cover first caught my eye, and the name of the book made me laugh. I just wish that the book had lived up to the lovely cover. It was such a drag for me, and difficult to get through. Really I should have DNF it, but I hate not completing a book. The characters annoyed me including the main character Plum, And nothing really happens for the majority of the book, until the end when suddenly Plum has it all figured out based on a whole lot of nothing for clues. And for some reason, she (a travel agent) is the perfect person for the incompetent police to send untrained, onto a yacht isolated in the ocean, where they know a murderer is. Sure sure sure.

Much Mayhem…
Plum Lockhart returns with gusto in the third in this series set on the tropical island of Paraiso. Everything seems sweet and she’s enjoying her life. An invitation to dinner on a yacht, however, fills her with glee and the chance to mingle with the stars. What she doesn’t expect is a dead body to wash up a few days later. Before she knows it, Plum is sleuthing is earnest and much mayhem ensues. Fun and frothy with a cast of eccentric characters and an entertaining narrative.

Thank you to NetGalley, Poisoned Pen Press, and Sourcebooks for letting me read an ARC of this cozy mystery.

I didn't know when I started this book that it was the third one in a series, and although it didn't seem to make too much difference, I feel like I was missing some backstory where Plum and Juan Kevin are concerned, as well as with Captain Diaz.

In this story, Plum gets invited to join the rich and powerful on a yacht after an old friend sees her and lets her tag along to a dinner party. Almost immediately, one of the servers is found murdered, and it becomes Plum's responsibility to find out who did it. She goes undercover for Captain Diaz and the mystery meanders from there.

Seeing that it's a cozy mystery and they don't generally have a lot of suspense, I wasn't expecting to be on the edge of my seat, but there are usually some clues within the story that leads to a suspect (or a few suspects, just to keep you guessing). There were no clues, no piecing together, no suspects. Everyone was a suspect, and no one was a suspect.

None of the characters are exactly likeable, not even Plum. She's just kind of there, getting into other people's business, and getting herself into trouble. I feel like she's weak, not a take-charge woman who can go up against a murderer. I neither loved nor hated her, she was just the protagonist of the story. Juan Kevin, her somewhat-boyfriend, isn't much better. He keeps things from her, even when he says he wants to explain what's going on. None of the yacht members are likeable in any way. There's cheating husbands, people keeping all kinds of secrets, lying about their lives...you know, what rich and powerful people do. No one really had any redeeming qualities that made you want them to not be the killer.

Since this is an ARC and not the finished published version, I am hoping that all the grammatical errors will be fixed. There are also areas where time is a little wonky, and that was slightly distracting.

All in all, this is an okay novel. It's not the best cozy mystery I've ever read, and probably not the worst either. Maybe if I had started with the first book I would feel a little different. If you have read the other two books and enjoyed them, then by all means, keep reading the series. If you haven't read the others yet, either start there or skip them completely, that's up to you.

I was immediately attracted to the puntastic title and great looking cover!

This is the third book in the series. I hadn't read the previous two and didn't feel lost although I would be interested to read them to get more background on Plum and the reoccurring characters.

It was an enjoyable read. Someone had called this series Agatha Raisin meets Death In Paradise and I thought that description was apt.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Poisoned Pen Press through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. Thank you, Poisoned Pen Press.

An extremely fun jaunt of a read! If you're a cozy mystery fan, this will be a fun journey for you. I found Plum fun to follow along with, and the great setting didn't hurt at all.

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.