Dog Collar Cuisine

Book 5 of the often zany antics by the mob princess with a dog walking business, family, friends and the cop boyfriend. Mystery series with a bit of humor and bumbling investigations that somehow always seem to pay off.

This book has a few sections told from the view of Tim but always written in third person. It's nice to understand his view of situations but prefer Lucile's convoluted thinking.
I love Joey. He has a big protective streak but also a big heart.

Excerpt:
“Lucie’s phone rang. She glanced down to see O’Hottie lighting up the screen. He complained about the nickname, but down deep, he had to like it. Lucie sure did.
“Hiya, handsome.”
“My girl. What are you doing?”
Tricky business here. Tim didn’t like her involved in what he termed screwball investigations. Sympathetic to the plight of her cop boyfriend, she chose not to put him in awkward positions by filling him in on every detail.
Right now, this firefighter thing hadn’t quite materialized into anything and, in Lucie’s mind, wasn’t worth irritating her beloved.
Yes, she’d protect him from this.
What a crock. Protect herself from a lecture was more like it.
She flicked a gaze at her laptop screen. “I’m working on a spreadsheet.”
So she’d left out a few minor details.”
Excerpt From: Giordano, Adrienne. “Dog Collar Cuisine.” iBooks. ( )

Dog Collar Cuisine by Adrienne Giordano
A Lucie Rizzo Mystery #5

Lucie finds herself unwittingly and unwillingly in trouble again. While helping out a customer she becomes the target of someone maliciously accusing her of thievery and she knows she is not guilty SO in Lucie’s inimitable style she starts sleuthing for the real thief. This leads her to questionable behavior – at least in her boyfriend’s mind. Why questionable? Well, because Detective Tim “O’Hottie” O’Brien is an upholder and not a breaker of the law and sometimes Lucie bends and even slips across that line he upholds in his job.

There are escapades and situations and suspects and dogs and romance along with family and caring and romance and sharing. This is a great addition to the series with Tim and Lucie growing closer together as a couple while figuring out how to be just Tim and Lucie without the influence of his job and her familial ties impinging on their relationship.

Thank you to the author for the ARC – this is my honest review.

4 Stars ( )