Review: Not as good as the rest of the series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2012
Becca travels to Arizona to do research of a farmer's market that operates in conjunction with a trading post and discovers one of the vendors has been murdered, leading to questions whether his recently deceased father was also murdered.I wouldn't say Becca solved this murder but she mostly went along for the ride and was in the room when the killer confessed.I bought this book because I'm a fan of the farm fresh murder series and I didn't want to take a chance on missing out on anything that might be referred to in the next books in the series to come out. No chance of that happening here. There is nothing in Red Hot Deadly Peppers that carries on from previous books in the series or makes more than passing references to the characters we know in the series.In the previous books Becca is a fun, spunky woman, the type of person you'd want to be friends with and have around when you need a friend. In Red Hot Deadly Peppers her character fell flat and boring. Possibly because she was missing the rest of the cast that we've grown to know and love, but probably mostly because Becca did not get herself into any of those hilarious sticky situations that we have come to know and love her for. Mostly all Becca did was complain about the heat and the stark Arizona desert.The other books in the series are the kind that I can't put down once I stop reading. This one I could put down and leave for a few days before reading another chapter or two. It just fell flat for me, almost like someone else wrote this and borrowed the Becca character.I still plan to buy the next book in the series when it comes out. I just hope Becca returns to normal and this short story isn't a sign of things to come in the series.