Dead to the Last Drop

By Cleo Coyle

Book Overview

After the White House asks coffeehouse manager and master roaster Clare Cosi to consult on the coffee service for a Rose Garden Wedding, she discovers a historic pot was used as a CIA "dead drop" decades before. Now long-simmering secrets boil over, scalding Clare and the people around her . . . Clare's visit to the nation's capital is off to a graceful start. Her octogenarian employer lands her a housesitting job in a charming Georgetown mansion, and she's invited to work with a respected curator on the Smithsonian's culinary salute to coffee in America. Unfortunately, Clare's new Village Blend DC is struggling to earn a profit, until its second floor Jazz Space attracts a high-profile fan-the college-age daughter of the U.S. President. Clare's stock rises as the First Lady befriends her, but she soon learns a stark lesson- Washington can be murder. First a stylish State Department employee suspiciously collapses in her coffeehouse. Then the President's daughter goes missing. Is she a runaway bride or is something more sinister in play? After another deadly twist, Clare is on the run with her NYPD detective boyfriend. Branded an enemy of the state, she must piece together clues and uncover the truth before her life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness come to a bitter end. Includes great American recipes!

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425276104
• ISBN13: 9780425276105
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Didn’t do it for me

I love the Coffeehouse Mysteries and enjoyed all of them so far. This one did not do it for me. Anything that touches politics becomes boring to me. I had a very hard time staying interested in the less than plausible plot. Others might thoroughly enjoy this book but it was the one I really had difficulty reading from beginning to end.