A review by tatteredtales
Little Indiscretions by Carmen Posadas

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

What have we here? A murder mystery set in the beautiful location of Costa del Sol in Southern Spain. Who is the unfortunate victim? A pastry chef whose only distinguishing feature is his prominent mustache (Poirot is that you?). Why would anyone want to kill him? For quite a lot of reasons actually as we will soon find out!

Little did Pastry Chef Nestor Chaffino realize that when he is hired to cater for a party in a beautiful villa at the Costa Del Sol, it will be the last thing that he will ever do. Unbeknownst to himself, he has earned a lot of enemies by just being in the wrong place at the wrong time or saying the wrong thing in front of a wrong audience. As luck would have it there is a prophecy that warns him about the upcoming disaster which unfortunately for him (and luckily for the readers) he doesn't heed.

This murder mystery has no detectives, it is the job of the readers to figure out the whodunnit and possibly the whydunnit. This book had the intense atmosphere reminiscent of Agatha Christie books and I kept expecting Poirot to pop in at inopportune moments, but I guess two dudes with prominent mustaches are a little too much for any book, so alas we're just left with the chef, who unfortunately turns up a little too dead to be of much use.

But don't worry, there are other quirky characters in the book who may or may not turn up dead; who may or may not have committed the murder; who may or may not have something(s) to hide. There's also something for the masterchef fans in this book; a little black book filled with cooking secrets- which may or may not be the instigator that sets of all the events that take place in this book- titled Little Indiscretions (or Pequeñas Infamias as the translation goes). So have a happy little reading vacation in a beautiful Spanish countryside that may or may not be punctuated with murders at every turn!

P.S. also beware the wrath of the cockroaches.