My Review
With No Roast for the Weary we return to the Village Blend, a coffeehouse in Greenwich Village, New York City. The shop has been faltering since the pandemic. Clare, the manager, and her baristas come up with a plan to drive more traffic to their store, opening a writer’s lounge. Madame, Clare’s ex-mother-in-law and owner of the shop, has bad memories of a similar plan decades before that ended in murder. In the present day, a brutal attack occurs behind the coffeehouse that may, or may not be, related to the old murder case. Clare wonders if the writer’s lounge idea should have been left buried in the past but feels she must try and solve both the current incident and the cold case anyway.
It is always nice to visit Clare and the Village Blend staff. They feel so real they might as well be family now after 21 books in this series. The mystery within No Roast for the Weary has plenty of suspects as well as clues hidden among the red herrings. It is an enjoyable cozy tale perfect for a sunny Spring day or a beach read this summer. 4 stars!
Thanks to Great Escapes Book Tours, NetGalley and Berkley for providing me with an advanced review copy.
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No Roast for the Weary (A Coffeehouse Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
21st in Series
Setting – New York
Publisher : Berkley (April 1, 2025)
When the Village Blend opens a Writer’s Block Lounge, a cold case crime turns up the heat on Clare and her crew in this gripping new entry in the beloved Coffeehouse Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.
As much as master roaster Clare Cosi adores coffee, the landmark shop she manages won’t survive if she doesn’t sell enough of it. So when the Village Blend’s customer traffic grinds to a halt, she turns to her staff for creative ideas, and the Writer’s Block Lounge is born.
Madame, the eccentric octogenarian owner of the shop, is upset by this news. Years ago, a group of accomplished writers used the shop’s second-floor lounge to inspire each other, but the group disbanded when something dark occurred. Though that history is shrouded in mystery, Clare presses forward…
Soon the Village Blend tables are filled with aspiring novelists, playwrights, and poets, all happy to be coaxed, cajoled, and caffeinated by her coffeehouse crew. Clare admires the stamina of these scribes, many of them toiling at night jobs—driving taxis, tending bar, ushering for Broadway—while penning projects during the day.
Then one of their fictions turns fatal when a shocking secret leads to a deadly end. Unless Clare can untangle this mystery, uncover the truth, and stop a desperate killer, she fears more of these weary writers may be marked for eternal rest. ~ Includes a knockout menu of recipes.
About Cleo Coyle
CLEO COYLE is a pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. Both are New York Times bestselling authors of the long-running Coffeehouse Mysteries and Haunted Bookshop Mysteries, now celebrating more than 20 years in print. With more than one million books sold, their works have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Czech; received multiple Best of Year selection honors from reviewers; and have been recommended by Booklist as among the best culinary mysteries for core library mystery collections. Alice and Marc are also bestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for Lucasfilm, NBC, Fox, Disney, Imagine, Toho, and MGM. They live and work in New York City, where they write independently and together, wrangle their rescue cats, drink a lot of java, and cook like crazy. Connect with Cleo at CoffeehouseMystery.com
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never read this author
She (or they, I guess) are great. I started reading their noir detective ghost series in the 1990s and haven’t looked back since.
Hi, Diane — Thank you so much for reviewing our new Coffeehouse Mystery. Marc and I had a great time writing No Roast for the Weary, especially because the crime involves a community of quirky writers. Marc and I are quirky ourselves, and we’ve been writing professionally for a few decades now, so we had good fun with this plot. We’re glad to know you enjoyed the read, and we hope you’ll return again to our Village Blend. Cheers, everyone, happy reading and happy spring!
With love from NYC,
Cleo
I’ve read them all and even your other series too. Please keep writing both series!
Thank you for the review.