Formidable Sleuthing Duo…
The first in The Kielbasa Queen Mystery series finds Lydia managing the family business whilst waiting to open her own. Busy juggling everything and everyone, Lydia is shocked to discover the body of their meat supplier inside their smoker, a sausage pricker thrust deep into his neck. With Lydia now the prime suspect she must don her amateur sleuthing hat fast to find a killer and, with the help of her grandma Mary, the pair soon form a formidable sleuthing duo, Fast paced and frothy with a cast of likeable and eccentric characters, this is a promising start to a new series.

I’ll be honest, I was drawn to this book because I love Kielbasa…and I’m glad I love it because this turned out to be a fun cozy!

Being the first in a new series, there are a few things that need to be fleshed out better, but I always let book two be the one that lets me fully decide on the overall love for a series. I’m hoping we’ll see a little more detail into Lydia and her life for us to get settled into visualizing the time and setting a little more. But either way, I am back for book two and can’t wait!

Thank you @netgalley for the ARC of "The Kielbasa Killer" by Geri Krotow. This is a fairly interesting and engaging cozy mystery. Very Polish American centered. However, when is this supposed to be set? Sometimes I think I'm listen to a modern (2020's era) story, then the main character mentions something line cutting a record off the back of a cereal box or someone smoking within the butcher shop office not being something worth immediately firing over. So, is it late 90's/early 00's or is it 2020's? Also, how old is the main character supposed to be? Sometimes she talks like she's in her mid 30's to early 40's, then she's points out something that should make her only 23/34. Maybe flush this out a bit and establish what year time frame we're in because it really throws me off as a reader.

I didn’t really like this book. I’m not sure why, maybe the writing style. It didn’t seem to go anywhere throughout the story. The main character seemed stuck in these mode. #TheKielbasaKiller #NetGalley