Diners, Dives & Dead Ends by Terri L. Austin

Omg, this was one of the funniest and most amazing light-hearted mysteries I have read, I did not want to put it down and the cover is amazing as well. This is a great mystery and I loved all the characters in the book and I can't wait for the next book to come out. Does she? What else is in store for Rose. Rose races to the finish line determined not to go down in flames and find her friend. Running on adrenalin she is determined to find Axton and any evidence she can to stop what is going on around town. She found that he was indebted to whomever was running this establishment probably her abductor of earlier.

Packard wouldn't talk to Rose, so she decided one night to follow him and low and behold he went to gamble in an old school. lots of prominent people on the list including the mayor, chief of police and Axton's brother, Packard. Who are these guys and what do they want? She finds that Axton had an encrypted hard drive and her IT friends discovered what was on it. She lets everyone know what is happening. Having had not much sleep for days, she looks awful, but goes to work anyway. New door locks are installed and she now needs to buy some clothes, food and furniture as much as her money will let her do so.

The police are called and they do their thing and leave. Going up to her apartment she finds that it has been vandalized, everything is destroyed: food, clothing, furniture all gone, shredded to pieces. She is returned to her apartment the same way and just tossed out of the limo. Rose is abducted by a henchman,blindfolded, tied up and taken to a manse where the 'boss' demands to get back 'what is his.' Rose adamantly tells him she doesn't have whatever he wants. Also, a pair of IT wise men and her elderly boss discover political corruption, illegal gambling and very shady corporations. Her friend, Roxy from the diner, helps her try to locate Axton. She is looking for clues as to where her friend went without any luck. She is being followed by some 'bad guys'. But when he doesn't seem to be around for days, she begins to worry and wonders what happened to him. He had left her his backpack and wanted her to watch it for a few days. Rose's close friend, Axton, disappears and suddenly Rose is caught up in the adventure of trying to find him. 'You could have had everything just like your sister.' Well, Rose just was too independent and has been doing fairly well on her own so far. She had been disinherited by her parents as she didn't want to conform to their lifestyle and go to the college they had chosen for her.

Rose Strickland is a part-time college student and waitresses at Ma's Diner. Couldn't put it down until the last word. It's and advanced copy prior to the book coming out in July. Austin was a free book that I won through the Goodreads First Reads giveaway.

Diners, Dives & Dead Ends by Terri L. Austin