A Good Day for Chardonnay

Genre: Mystery / Contemporary / Romance / Chick Lit

Book Type: Physical

Author: Darynda Jones

Pages: 416

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (July 27, 2021)

Book’s Description:

Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff―and even fuller-time coffee guzzler―Sunshine Vicram, didn’t get that memo.

All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that’s about as easy as switching to decaf. (What kind of people do that? And who hurt them?)

Before she can say iced mocha latte, Sunny’s got a bar fight gone bad, a teenage daughter hunting a serial killer and, oh yes, the still unresolved mystery of her own abduction years prior. All evidence points to a local distiller, a dangerous bad boy named Levi Ravinder, but Sun knows he’s not the villain of her story. Still, perhaps beneath it all, he possesses the keys to her disappearance. At the very least, beneath it all, he possesses a serious set of abs. She’s seen it. Once. Accidentally.

Between policing a town her hunky chief deputy calls four cents short of a nickel, that pesky crush she has on Levi which seems to grow exponentially every day, and an irascible raccoon that just doesn’t know when to quit, Sunny’s life is about to rocket to a whole new level of crazy.

Yep, definitely a good day for chardonnay.

Thoughts:

Seriously, I wish Sunshine was a real person, because we would be instant friends!

I absolutely loved this book (more-so than the first)! It had the mystery, heartbreak (definitely cried hard), romance, crime-solving, and humor as the #abaddayforsunshine, but I LOVED that I got the answers I wanted as a cliffhanger from the first one.

Of course you’re left with another cliffhanger, but I can live with this one much better than the first. What I can’t live with, is waiting until next year to get another Sunshine fix. The only reason this isn’t a complete 5⭐️, is that the timelines jump (a lot at times), and they didn’t always add up. I also wish when doing flashbacks, the font was somehow differentiated as it gets a bit hard to follow if I’m in the past or present during some of the flashback scenes – BUT – that was my only complaint. There are some “unbelievable” moments, but it all works for me in the world of Del Sol.

Off to pout and wait for the next book to rush through. I can’t wait to see where this story goes!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#Contemporary #chicklit #humor #Mystery #crime #romance