Review: Peppers Worth Killing For
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2012
Becca Robbins has escaped to the Arizona heat to avoid her awkward relationship problems.  Her sister, Alison, sent her to Chief Buffalo's Trading Post to examine the successful relationship between a shopping center and farmer's market - a situation that their own farmer's market in South Carolina is quickly finding themselves in. Soon after her arrival, Becca stumbles on another dead body - the trading post's jewelry maker, and the only remaining family member to her host, Nera.  Nera enlists Becca's help to uncover what happened to her cousin Graham, especially since she had suspected fowl play in his father's death a few months prior.Red Hot Deadly Peppers was a quick read, but I found myself missing the characters we've grown to love in the series. This novella was a little stiff and awkward to me, the majority of it was spent on the scenery and the heat - and Becca's never-changing & repetitious thoughts on the subjects. I wish the author had spent less time covering the scenery and heat, and more time on the character development - there definitely needed to be another character we could identify with and cheer for.