Review: Fat Cat Takes the Cake

Fat Cat Takes the Cake by Janet Cantrell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4.5 Stars. I had never read any books in this series and with this being the third book I was wondering if I would be able to catch up with the characters from the previous book, but I had no problems what so ever. This was such a fun, easy, and enjoyable read. I will go back and read the other two books in the series just because I liked this one and found it so entertaining.

Chase Oliver is co-owner of a cute little dessert shop called, Bar None with Anna Larson, and the shoppe’s resident, Quincy, who is supposed to be on a diet, orders from his vet. Julie, Chase’s best friend from high school, receive an email from an old high school chum, inviting them to a reunion in their old high school gym. They can’t figure out why they would be getting an invite to their fourteenth year reunion, from Richard “Dickie” Byrd. Julie and Chase suspect that Dickie is running for Mayor again, and is using this to rally support and votes.

Anna has been invited to the Batter Up Challenge that is hosted every year. She starts working on a recipe so that she can beat Grace Philens (sp), who for the past three years has been invited to the competition and each year gloats about it to Anna that she was invited and Anna wasn’t.
Chase gets an unexpected call from Ron North, a reporter for their local paper who wants to do a story on Chase and her new bakery. Chase isn’t thrilled hearing from Ron, since they went to high school together and he was always stalking Julie.

Julie and Chase goes to the reunion and they see many of the people from their high school class, Mona, a germ-phobic, who is also married to Dickie, Julie’s high school crush Eddie, who only eats healthy, organic foods and juices, their old principle Mr. Snelson, and of course Ron North, who spots Julie and attaches himself to her like a magnet. When he tries to kiss her, Julie’s boyfriend sees this and tells Ron to move along, Ron does so, but not before he takes Julie’s favorite scarf and slips it into his pocket. He leaves his notebook that he uses for his reporting at the punch bowl. Julie finds it at the end of the evening picks it up and asks if it belongs to or know who it belongs to. The next day, Chase is trying out a new harness for Quincy, so they can go on walks to help him lose weight, when Quincy slips out of the harness, runs under a bush, and discovers Ron’s body, dead. He had Julie’s scarf around his neck, and Chase see’s this is not going to look good for Julie. To save her friend, Chase needs to find out who killed Ron, before Julie is charged with murder.
There are plenty of possible suspects, twist and turns, characters are well developed and the story flows nicely. This was such an enjoyable read. I also want to thank Cozy Mystery Review Crew for allowing me to receive a free copy of this book for review.


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