A Honeybun and Coffee by Sam Cheever
I picked up this one to fit one of my reading challenges regarding title and was pleasantly surprised. The cover doesn't entirely fit the novel. It almost reads as a send up of romantic suspense novels, with the wordplay on names, the near-misses, and the unlikely situations. The main character, Angie Peterson, owns a coffee and pastry shop, and one day she ends up overhearing a conversation between two of her customers where they discuss killing someone. The target has an unusual name, Alastair Honeybun, a name that conjures elderly Englishman to Angie, and she quickly looks him up and rushes to his house to warn him.
Once there she finds him quite different than her expectations, a tall, handsome man with a dachshund named Jaws, and he finds her story hard to believe. But the two men she heard show up shortly after her and Alastair and Angie are now on the run, together. They get help from his family along the way, but things get dicey at times, and the heat between them grows.
The haplessness of many of the bad guys, the numerous and very capable Honeybun brothers, and the many narrow escapes mean that the plot moves quickly and keeps the reader surprised and amused. This is the first in a series that follows each of the eight Honeybun brothers as the risk life and love, this is a promising start for those that like the combination of suspense, romance, and humour.
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