Married odd couple Arthur and Sal are totally normal. They wear sunscreen, not because the sun can kill them, but because even the undead need a skincare regimen. They eat garlic whenever they want, though it gives Sal indigestion. They can talk to creatures of the night, but only the raccoons that rifle through their garbage. Really, they don’t bite… except into delicious baked goods.

Ready to settle down and stay out of trouble, the two have opened a bed & breakfast in the idyllic, if not-so-paranormal-friendly, town of Trident Falls, Oregon. But trouble finds them when the mayor is discovered dead in their begonias with two puncture wounds in his neck. With the help of a werewolf barista, the elven town coroner, and a very human city manager, Arthur and Sal will need to prove they aren’t literally out for blood by catching a killer…

Dead & Breakfast by Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor is quirky and funny. The initial set up sets up a world in which the supernatural live side by side the normal and the normal don’t always like the supernatural. The strangeness of the mystery and how events unfold kept me reading and entertained. I couldn’t wait to figure out who done it.

Both Arthur and Sal are fun and even though they seem like an odd couple, they work things out and no surprise they need to in order to catch the killer. The mystery is well written, I love the puns even when they made me groan and the characters are intriguing. I hope to see more in the series.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 bites

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