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Sophie Greenway runs her family's large hotel and does food reviews for The Minneapolis Times Register, so she's at the hub of all the latest news in town. Her new husband Bram is devoted to her, as is an old beau who just won't leave Sophie alone. On the anniversary of his wife's death in a car accident, Kent Loy, the owner of the newspaper, is murdered. Later it's discovered that he died just a half hour after the murder of the man he blamed for his wife's death. Rumors begin to run wild. Were the killings connected? When the tape of the 911 call for help that Kent managed to make to the police is leaked to the press, the suspicion of who murdered him falls on a few men in town. Sophie's husband Bram is soon busy gathering clues, speaking to all the people who might be connected to the murder and they both are hoping to find out who did the shooting. Meanwhile Sophie is having marriage problems from old sources. Bram's grown daughter is trying to make trouble while Sophie's old first beau has come back to town and won't take no for an answer. This is the latest in the culinary mystery series with Sophie and her family and I can't believe I haven't come across them earlier. This is a mystery cozy in every sense of the word. It's populated with what seems like a full town of people, but thankfully the author, Ellen Hart, includes a roster of characters and their relationships to each other at the front of the book. This entry in the series can stand on its own, though, as the readers are filled in on each character with a few paragraphs of back-story as each are introduced. Clues and bits of pertinent information are given to the reader as the story continues, both from a police friend who is working on the case, and from random people, all of whom are holding out on us. Hart permits the reader to try to pick out the guilty party, but the mystery is safe until the very end. NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED makes for a fine afternoon's reading.
Reviewed by Sharon Katz, April 2005
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