"Love In A Nutshell"

Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly teamed up to write "Love In A Nutshell."  Since I like almost anything Evanovich authors, I had to check it out.  It's a combination mystery/romance with Kate Appleton as the heroine.  Kate is reeling from a husband who left her as well as being fired as a magazine editor.  Her only asset is the "Nutshell" - her parents' summer house in Keene's Harbor, Michigan.  She wants to turn it into a B & B but it needs lots of renovation and that requires money she doesn't have so she resorts to accepting the only job she can find -- trying to uncover a saboteur at a local brewery owned by Matt Culhane.  Matt wants Kate to go undercover in his brewery to try to figure out who is trying to undermine him.  That requires her to work at different jobs and learn the brewery business from the ground up and she doesn't even like beer!  The more Kate is thrown into situations with Matt at work and at community events the more attracted she is to him but the last thing she needs right now is romance.  Things come to a head when someone tries to  kill Kate -- is she getting too close to uncovering who is behind the sabotage?  To protect her Matt moves her into his guest room which complicates both their lives and, knowing her parents wouldn't understand, their upcoming visit requires a move back to Nutshell -- still in stages of renovation.  This is a light, fast-paced, fun read!  pazt