Thyme for Love is a romantic mystery that is strong on the romance.  The story opens with April Love meeting her ex-fiance after eight years.  She's applying for a job as a chef. Marc Thorne works at the non-profit company she's interviewing at.  He wouldn't be her boss — until the boss turns up dead the next morning.

Ramon Galvez's death is ruled a heart attack, and life goes on for those at the His Helping Hands Ministry.  Except a variety of characters make for good suspects when April begins to question the authority's ruling.  Ramon's ex-girlfriend is top of the list.  But Ramon's gold-digging sister isn't far behind.  Then there are the folks that work at the mission — the maintenance man, the disgruntled accountant, the director of the board, two office workers, and, of course, Marc and Bob Cousins, men who are now vying for Ramon's position.

The romance between April and Marc is stalled because Marc now has a secret he won't share about what happened in the last eight years to derail his oh-so-important agenda of grad school. But as work circumstances and dating opportuntiies keep them together, April begins to see that as a couple they had deeper issues when they were engaged than she'd realized.  Perhaps it was for the best that they had time to grow up separately.

Still, she feels they can't move forward until Marc can trust her with his secrets.  Good thing she has a murder to solve while she's waiting on him.

Clean, straight-forward writing.  Easy to enjoy characters.  Simple romance.  I rarely figure out the killer in mysteries, so that doesn't surprise me.  I'm not sure I followed all the motives, though.  Why don't you give it a read, and we can chat about why the characters did what they did? enlightened