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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Chris Cavender has written several mysteries centered around pizza, a food favored by many readers and non-readers everywhere. And now the author has created "Killer Crust" which features Eleanor Swift who runs "Slice of Delight", a pizza parlor in Timber Ridge, North Carolina, with the help of her sister Maddy Spencer. Eleanor and Maddie are invited to participate in Laughing Luigi's pizza dough contest at the local Timber Ridge luxury hotel, Tree-Line. Luigi, hardly known for any laughs at all, owns the Laughing Luigi's Frozen Pizza Dough business which is well-known in the southern United States. The grand prize of this pizza dough contest is $25,000 which even after taxes is enough for Eleanor to redo and modernize "Slice of Delight". There are four pizza making contests who agree to use Laughing Luigi's dough while making their contest pizzas: Eleanor and Maddie,Jeff and Sandy Clarke from "Grinning Cat Pizzeria" in Asheville, Kenny Anderson and his helper, Anna Wright, from "Pizza Top" in Charlotte, and Reggie and Todd Blackwell from their "pizza Pie Factory" in Raleigh. Eleanor overhears someone fighting with Luigi whose name is really George Vincent. And then Laughing Luigi is murdered. Was winning this contest worth killing him or is there something else going on?
"Killer Crust" is a fun-to-read mystery as sisters Eleanor Swift and Maddie Spencer track down Luigi's killer. Eleanor, Maddie, their intendeds Bob and David, Gina who runs the front desk at Tree-Line for her uncle, policeman Kevin Hurley, and all the characters involved, both major and minor, are believable and fit into the storyline quite well. The plot's twists and turns and the dialogue among the characters all suit "Killer Crust" quite well. Readers who love mysteries will want to put "Killer Crust" on their reading lists and a pizza on their kitchen counters for a between-chapters snack.
