Pineapple Port Cozy Mystery Series Boxed Set 1: Cozy Mystery Books 1-3 (Pineapple Port Mysteries)

Pineapple Port Cozy Mystery Series Boxed Set 1: Cozy Mystery Books 1-3 (Pineapple Port Mysteries)

Amy Vansant

  • 4.4 out of 5
  • 2,418 ratings
  • 768 pages
  • PG-13

Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13

This cozy mystery set in a retirement community follows a young amateur investigator and her neighbors through pun-heavy banter while several linked crimes unfold. Expect steady mild profanity, frequent silly insults, and genre-typical murder violence with blood and stabbing described in investigation scenes but not sustained graphic torture. Parent notes: drug misuse appears in backstory and customer reviews mention drug use alongside language. Romance and flirtation with a love interest are part of the subplot; one line jokes that neighbors assume a man is gay. There are no explicit sex scenes in the samples; sexual references stay verbal and brief. Themes include solving homicides, family secrets, and elderly residents meddling in detective work.

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Crude Moderate

57

Residents and sleuths often call one another foolish or idiotic in teasing or angry moments. Some humor touches on underwear, buttocks, and chest size without extended focus.

Amazon reviews mentioning crude

Specific words
  • stupid: 32
  • idiot: 25

Profanity Moderate

44

Mild to medium-strength swearing and insults appear regularly in banter, stress, and arguments, including terms for foolhardy or contemptible people and occasional crude anatomy jokes. Customer notes describe mild profanity overall; one reviewer recalled an earlier series entry with little swearing, but this volume's sampled language is clearly present.

Amazon reviews mentioning profanity

Specific words
  • damn: 15
  • hell: 12
  • bastard: 8
  • ass: 6
  • butt: 2
  • shit: 1

Sex Mild

5

There is no detailed sexual activity on the page. Characters make brief crude comments about bodies, joke about adult videos while stopping playback before anything explicit, and use medication references as edgy humor. Review notes commonly describe the series as clean cozy mystery without graphic sex.

Amazon reviews mentioning sex

Specific words
  • boob: 2
  • viagra: 2
  • porn: 1

Violence Moderate

53

As a murder mystery, the story includes discovered bodies, shootings, stabbings, and descriptions of bleeding and blood at crime scenes, sometimes vivid but typical of the genre. Characters also fight back with kicks and punches during confrontations. A passing reference mentions someone attempting to jump from a vehicle in distress.

Amazon reviews mentioning violence

Specific words
  • blood: 26
  • stab: 11
  • bleed: 5
  • punch: 5
  • kick: 4
  • smash: 2

About this book

NOW OPTIONED FOR TELEVISION! This pack includes books 1, 2 & 3 Funny, clean, small-town, sleuth novels—with a touch of romance. The heartwarming relationships between young and old and the quirky world of loveable characters will make Pineapple Port Mysteries your new favorite series. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ " Too much!! Wow! I don't think I've had so much laughter and fun in a cozy mystery ever! " - Amazon Reader After she's orphaned by her grandmother's death, Charlotte is raised by the Pineapple Port 55+ community. Finding human bones in her backyard leads her to a career as a detective and love. The series' characters—young and old—are almost as funny as they are loving, supportive and brave. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "One of the best surprise ending I have read.." - Amazon Vine Voice Reader Book One: Pineapple Lies Charlotte Morgan isn't your average Pineapple Port 55+ community neighbor. She's 26 years old—adopted by a whole neighborhood of retirees as a child. She's had an unusual upbringing—pickleball instead of proms. Her unusual upbringing has left Charlotte an oddball among her peers, but she's lucky—she has Mariska and Darla, her late grandmother's neighbors, to love and watch over her. Still, lately, she's been feeling restless. Something's missing. Is it the human skeleton buried in her garden? Nope. She just found that. In an instant, she goes from lonely and bored to trapped in a web of lies. Her neighbors are acting squirrelly, there's a corpse in her garden and a handsome pawnbroker is hovering in the yard...Does he know the dead woman? Book Two: Pineapple Mystery Box - When a giant inflatable Halloween witch goes missing in the Pineapple Port retirement community, Charlotte’s eager to nab the culprit. Before she can lift a fingerprint, someone threatens to kill a new neighbor who looks like an adorable Pomeranian but possesses a disturbing talent for revenge. Moments later, a stranger demands the return of a mysterious wooden box… or else. Book Three: Pineapple Puzzles - The infamous Puzzle Killer returns to Charity, Florida, in search of a rival murderer, and when two serial killers battle, Charlotte, Declan, Seamus and a naked cat find themselves on the chopping block! "Amy is one of my favorite authors. I highly recommend all of her books. No matter what genre she writes in, she manages to create books that demand that the pages be immediately turned to find out what happened because you really care about the characters." ~ Dianne Harman, USA Today and Amazon Chart #1 Bestselling Author Read more