Hi Cara,
Today I am reviewing A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones. This is the second book in the Sunshine Vicram series. The first book in the series is A Bad Day for Sunshine.
A Good Day for Chardonnay comes out on the 27th July 2021.
Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff--and even fuller-time coffee guzzler--Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo.
All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that's about as easy as switching to decaf. (What kind of people do that? And who hurt them?)
Before she can say iced mocha latte, Sunny's got a bar fight gone bad, a teenage daughter hunting a serial killer and, oh yes, the still unresolved mystery of her own abduction years prior. All evidence points to a local distiller, a dangerous bad boy named Levi Ravinder, but Sun knows he's not the villain of her story. Still, perhaps beneath it all, he possesses the keys to her disappearance. At the very least, beneath it all, he possesses a serious set of abs. She's seen it. Once. Accidentally.
Between policing a town her hunky chief deputy calls four cents short of a nickel, that pesky crush she has on Levi which seems to grow exponentially every day, and an irascible raccoon that just doesn't know when to quit, Sunny's life is about to rocket to a whole new level of crazy.
Yep, definitely a good day for chardonnay.
(Synopsis from Goodreads.com)
A Good Day for Chardonnay is a funny, mystery-filled story with a decent size of romance.
Sunshine Vicram is one of my favourite characters. I love how sarcastic, funny, smart and quick-witted. You never know what is going to come out of her mouth. And how this has basically infected all the people around her to do the same. It also makes her work environment interesting. I wish I was funny as Sunshine and Auri.
The main mystery in A Good Day for Chardonnay involves a current stabbing that connects to the first case Sunshine had as a detective. I liked the case as it has a couple of different things going on with it. With Auri on her own investigation and sunshine also find out more about her kidnapping.
There is great action, romance, humour and even emotional moments.
A Good Day for Chardonnay has everything I want in an easy to read, fun mystery book.
My rating for A Good Day for Chardonnay is 5 out of 5.
Thank you to Netgalley and St Martin Press for gifting me a copy of A Good Day for Chardonnay for review.
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