Six Feet Deep Dish (Deep Dish Mysteries #1) by Mindy Quigley #bookreview #mystery

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Title: Six Feet Deep Dish

Author: Mindy Quigley

Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks

Publication Date: August 23, 2022

Page Count:  311

My rating: 4 stars

About the book:

Fresh mozzarella, tangy tomato sauce, and murder: the perfect recipe for a delicious first entry in Mindy Quigley’s Six Feet Deep Dish, a delectable new series…

Delilah O’Leary can’t wait to open her new gourmet deep-dish pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin—a charming resort town with a long history as a mobsters’ hideaway, millionaires’ playground, and vacation mecca. Engaged to a hunk with a hefty trust fund, Delilah is poised to begin a life that’s just about as delicious as one of her cheesy creations.

Just before opening night, though, Delilah’s plans for pizza perfection hit the skids when her fiancé dumps her and leaves her with a very large memento from their relationship—Butterball, their spoiled, plus-sized tabby cat.

Delilah’s trouble deepens when she discovers a dead body and finds her elderly aunt holding the murder weapon. Handsome local police detective Calvin Capone, great grandson of the legendary gangster, opens an investigation, threatening to sink Delilah’s pie-in-the-sky ambitions before they can even get off the ground. To save her aunt and get her pizza place generating some dough, Delilah must deliver the real killer.

Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley is the first book in the cozy Deep Dish Mysteries series. As with most cozy mystery series each book of the Deep Dish Mysteries will contain it’s own mystery that will be fully solved so they could be read as a standalone if choosing to do so. Of course the character development in each book will be carrying over to the next book for those wanting to continue the series.

Delilah O’Leary thought she was going to finally have it all once she opened up her new deep dish pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin. Geneva Bay was the perfect touristy town that should make her business a success and she had everyone she loved around her, her fiance and her great-aunt Biz and Butterball her tabby cat. Things don’t always go as planned though and Delilah quickly learned that as her restaurant opened.

First Delilah finds out that her fiance no longer wants to marry her which leaves the problem of her funding as he was paying for their home and her business. Then just as the restaurant opens Delilah finds the body of her Aunt Biz’s caretaker, Jeremy. Biz had been complaining he wasn’t around but finding her holding the murder weapon Delilah is sure that her aunt had nothing to do with the murder and vows to help find who did.

Six Feet Deep Dish by Mindy Quigley was one of those stories that certainly did have a lot going on in it as soon as it began. I enjoyed getting to know the characters in this first book which included some things I always look for with some quirkiness and humor, oh and a furry sidekick too. The setting being an old mobsters’ hideaway led to the detective being a descendant of a famous mobster which also gave a bit of flavor so to speak to the story with plenty of twists along the way too.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

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About the author:

Mindy Quigley is the author of two cozy mystery series. Her most recent, the Deep Dish Mysteries (St. Martin’s Press), has been featured in Parade, Woman’s World, and Kirkus Reviews.

Mindy’s non-writing career has been stranger than fiction, taking her from the US to the UK, where she worked as the personal assistant to the scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep, and as project manager for a neurology research clinic founded by the author J.K. Rowling.

She lives in Virginia, with her Civil War history professor husband and their children.