Six Feet Deep Dish (Deep Dish Mysteries, 1)

This is a new series and a new author for me and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Delilah and her posse are a fun group. Having opened my own small business, I definitely feel her nerves and angst. I also totally get the stress eating, she is definitely a relatable character. I love that she has a good heart, worries about her Aunt, employees, former fiancee and even some of the folks who do her wrong by engaging in a murder during her soft opening. Delilah is not an easy mark, even in light of that heart, she is determined to find out what happened so she can get her restuarant open, her employees fed, her Aunt on the mend and keep her furry sidekick in food. Fun read!

New to me author & series. I will definitely be reading more. Very well written with great characters and setting. Love the recipes at the end. Highly recommend. I look forward to reading more.

I like mysteries set in Wisconsin I jumped at this mystery. This one started off slow but then picked up nicely.Delilah O’Leary is about to open her new gourmet deep-dish pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin. Engaged to a Sam who is financing her, Just before opening night, though, Delilah’s plans fall through when she and her fiancé fight and he leaves her which puts her finances on the skids. Things get worst 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 pizza opening plans before they can even get off the ground. To save her aunt and get her pizza place generating some dough, Delilah looks for the real killer.As I said the murder mystery also got off to a slow start, but it was pretty interesting and kept me on my toes once it got going. I was also thankful that Detective Capone wasn’t a decent detective and was actually doing a good job of trying to solve the mystery but just happened to be a little slower than Delilah half of the time.Once the story got going, I found it to be a good entertaining mystery, and I can’t wait for the next book. Hopefully Capone will also show up as a regular love interest.

This impressive first book in the Deep Dish mysteries from Mindy Quigley features a solid mystery, authentically drawn characters, humor and excellent sense of place (here fictional Geneva Bay standing in for Lake Geneva, Wisconsin). Temperamental chef Delilah O’Leary launches her gourmet pizzeria backed by her wealthy tech entrepreneur fiancé. Everything appears to be falling into place for Delilah. We’ve barely met the characters though, including personality plus feline Butterball, when, on the night of the restaurant’s soft opening, her fiancé storms off, her aunt’s caretaker is murdered, and her aunt is holding the gun.Quigley throws Delilah into the deep end as the acerbic protagonist juggles opening the restaurant, caring for her aunt, and fitting in some sleuthing. Quigley executes the cozy mystery conventions thoughtfully through lively writing and surprisingly topical plot elements that weave in real-life challenges to add just enough heft to balance the humor.The excellently drawn characters form the real highlight of this book. Detective Calvin Calpone (yes, he’s a descendant of Al), loyal sous chef Sonya, hostess Melody, busboy-parole Rabbit, elderly Aunt Biz, and of course protagonist Delilah, show their quirks, complexities and flaws. They all combine to provide just the right leavening agent for launching this series.Overall rating: 4+ rounded to 5. As a bonus, Quigley’s attention to her characters carries over as they entertainingly voice the mouthwatering recipes provided at the end of the book.

Good start to a new series. Lake restaurant location made for a nice backdrop. Dee and Butterball are likable characters. As if starting a new business is not hard enough, a sudden breakup, and a murder on the sight of your restaurant certainly adds to a new business’s challenge.

Mindy Quigley is an up and coming author! Her writing is funny, engaging and suspenseful. I found the characters relatable and true-to-life. Six Feet Deep Dish is the first in a new series. I can wait for the next book. I read this one in two days!

I was frustrated with how slowly Delilah and the police took so long to put two and two together. Obviously her Aunt couldn't get out on her own so someone was drugging her. The dead guy with all the money in the shed!

I drug thru the first chapter before I threw it in the trash. The blurb on the back cover makes you think the fiancé is the bad guy for walking out on her, but it only takes a short way into the chapter for that to change. She treats him with no respect whatsoever for not meeting her specifications. He packed and left right in front of her when she jumped all over him for not doing as she wanted him to and he was sad about it. She made no effort to stop him and didn't seem too bothered by it in spite of all he had done for her. He left the cat because she had spoiled it so much that it only wanted her. She is such a total shrew that I have no idea how he lasted that long with her.