To Fudge or Not to Fudge is the second in Nancy Coco's Mackinac Island-based murder mystery series. My thoughts on this book are very, very similar to my thoughts on the first book, All Fudged Up. Which means, if nothing else, that Coco is consistent.
Allie McMurphy, the new and young owner of the McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop has found another body. In this case, it's pieces of a body - bones to be precise, and they're buried in mulch under a flowering lilac bush. The annual Lilac Festival is just around the corner. To complicate matters, a reality show based around - what else? - fudge making comes to town, and with it more murder and mayhem. As usual, Allie finders herself at the center of the drama.
There is not earthly reason I should have stayed up past my bedtime to learn whodunnit. Allie is not especially endearing, the writing is not especially crisp (I really, really don't care what color Allie's t-shirt is, how many times she changes it, or most anything else about her wardrobe, which Coco appears to think is an important plot point given the frequency with which such things are mentioned), and the whole premise is - again - entirely over the top. And yet I really, really needed to know who and why and how...
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