num_pages: 245
description: Independent Mystery Booksellers Association BestsellerRobert L. Fish Award-winning authorAnthony Award-nominated author Patricia Harper is dead, killed by a hot-wired espresso machine inUncommon Grounds, her very own gourmet coffee store! Maggy Thorsen wants to know who killed one of her partners. Maggy needs the store to succeed. Starting over after her divorce, she's quit her PR job to open the coffee store. And if things aren't already tough enough, she begins to suspect one of her friends is responsible for Patricia's murder. Maggy joins forces with Sarah Kingstown, Patricia's closest friend, to investigate her killing. Together, they uncover unsavory small-town politics, bribes, kickbacks, and rampant infidelity. Before she's through, Maggy's sense of right and wrong will be shaken to its foundations. For once in her life, she is forced to draw her own line in the sand, and be prepared to defend it.
language: English
title: Uncommon Grounds
titlecomplete: Uncommon Grounds (Maggy Thorsen Mystery #1)
characters: Jake Pavlik, Eric Thorsen, Kate McNamara, Sarah Kingston, Rachel Thorsen, Rudy Fischer, Henry Wested, David Harper, Caron Egan, Sam Harper, Bernie Egan, Sophie Daystrom, Gary Donovan, Courtney Harper, Patricia Harper, Ted Thorsen, Maggy Thorsen
genres: Cozy Mystery, Whodunit, Crime, Culinary, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 1043
places: Wisconsin
series: Maggy Thorsen Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best First Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Five Star