This a NetGalley ‘Read Now’ book, and if you’re part of the NetGalley community, you should definitely give it a read! This was my first ever NetGalley read and I’m delighted that I found it.

Avalon Nash is on her way from Los Angeles to New York.  Leaving her Californian life behind and wanting to start afresh somewhere else.  Avalon arrivals in a town called Tranquility while waiting on the train to continue her journey.  She has time between trains and decides to go for a drink in the bar across the street.  After some general conversation and a pleasant drink, Marta, the young barmaid wonders where Joseph, the bar manager, has got to.  Avalon decides to help look for him as Marta is serving the customers.  Upon opening the door to the smoker’s area, Avalon finds poor Joseph, dead.  Avalan is later made aware that Joseph was not the first bar man to die suspiciously… Avalon soon finds herself in the midst of an investigation by Inspector Spaulding in the pleasant town of Tranquility, a town filled with stories of Hollywood celebrities, a haunted room at the inn, a town full of secrets and death...

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and read it within a matter of hours and found it really enjoyable.  When it came to the climax of the book I felt like I couldn’t read it quick enough!  I did spy a small spelling mistake toward the start of the book but we’ll let this slide because the book was fabulous!  Avalon is a very likeable character and I’m so happy that some of my favourite characters made it to the end!  Phew!  The book also contains a cocktail recipe after every chapter and I loved that!  So unique!  I will most definitely giving some of these recipes a go! 

This book is due to be released 29 September 2020 and I highly recommend it!

I really enjoyed this book. I loved the small town feel, and all of the interesting and the off the wall characters that lived there. There was a lot more to this little town than first appeared .I love quirky books like this, and this one was just the right side of cozy for me, not too over the top, and there was actually a very good mystery to get to the bottom of ,there was a lot going on. I thought the main character was interesting, and can't wait to read more in this series. Oh, and the cocktail recipes were not bad either !

This was the perfect book to read on a holiday weekend. Whodunnit meets Hollywood drama meets things that go bump in the night meets Willoughby/Stars Hollow/small town USA. The main character, a bartender named Avalon is a collector of stories and through her eyes, we get to know the lives and personalities of the people of Tranquility, NY. It can be a little confusing to keep everyone in order but the names and characteristics are memorable and the pieces came together without having to go back to remind myself who's who. The mystery keeps the pages turning and the chapters are short enough to read in a sitting.

Death in Tranquility reminded me of the Nancy Drew books I loved growing up if Nancy Drew became a bartender. It's light and fun while taking seriously the elements that should be handled with sensitivity. As an added bonus, each chapter includes a hand crafted cocktail that fits with that section of the book (as a pastor my favorite new drink is "collared).

Appreciate the ARC from Netgalley and in the interest of full disclosure, I am friends with the author (that said, if you know me, you know it's impossible for me to read books that don't immediately draw me in . . . and I easily jumped into Death in Tranquility and read every page over several days).