Whole Latte Murder is the fifth installment in the All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery series set in Boggy Creek, FL and featuring Gia Morelli, owner of the cafe. Gia is looking forward to helping plan her best friend, Savannah Mills wedding to policeman Leo Dumont. Savannah is upset because she can't find an affordable wedding venue but Gia has an idea - unfortunately, before she can follow up with her surprise Savannah goes missing.

Savannah had left earlier in the day to show the Oakley Manor House to reputed loan shark Buster Clarke against the advice of Cafe cook, Cole Barrister. It seems that the house is owned by the Esposito family, rumored to have mob connections and sworn enemies of the Clarkes. When Savannah fails to return from her showing, Gia sets out in search of her friend and stumbles upon the body of Buster in the bathtub, another woman dead in the pond behind the house and Savannah nowhere to be found.

Anxious to find her friend, Gia sets out with the help of Leo's partner, Hunt Quinn and quickly finds herself in the midst of a real estate rivalry and a mob war. With her house being broken into, her trusty canine Thor drugged and someone stealing money from the Cafe, Gia realizes that this time she just might be in over her head.

A twisting plot filled with the return of series regulars makes for a quick and easy afternoon read.

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