Blackmail and Bibingka

Blackmail and Bibingka (2022) Mia P. Manansala (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery)

As previously, I finished this story with a slight pang of disappointment.

It’s not bad–not at all–but I want it to be just a tiny bit better.

I think it was the mystery that was the issue. I guessed pretty quickly who was involved in the crime–mostly because the other suspects were written far more sympathetically. I think she doesn’t want to like her criminals, so they don’t have a ton of personality, or Lila doesn’t get along with them.

Which is fine, but it is a bit of a give away.

And we kept getting conflicting views of Denise’s first husband, and not only was that never resolved, Lila never questions it.

But it was fun and I was able to borrow it from the library, so all good.

Publisher: Berkley

Rating: 7/10

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