In reading Geri Krotow’s Pierogi Peril, I felt like I had met my sleuthing baker cousin in Lydia Wienewski and was right there alongside her in Lydia’s Lakeside Café and Bakery, enjoying the smell of Polish breads and cakes, kielbasa and pierogies fried in butter and onions coming from her kitchen, and of course I was helping my cousin and Grandmom Mary solve the murder of Lydia’s one-time nemesis.

I loved the relationships between the cast of characters, the tension between the detectives and Lydia and Grandmom’s Angie Dickinson attitude.

While I guessed the murderer early on, though you never really know until the end, I enjoyed every minute of this delightful cozy mystery, the second installment of A Kielbasa Queen Mystery series. I can’t wait to go back and read the first book in the series, The Kielbasa Killer.

I highly recommend Pierogi Peril for cozy mystery lovers, especially those of Polish descent. I received this Advance Reader’s copy of Pierogi Peril from Severn House, courtesy of NetGalley.

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