A Troubling Case of Murder on the Menu: Cozy & Clean Mysteries

By Donna Doyle

Book Overview

A retired widow with a brand-new food blog. A waiter nursing a grudge. One village restaurant called The Silver Swan.

Emily Cherry, Retired Insurance Clerk Turned Food Blogger. Emily buried her husband Sebastian, retired, and told her grown children she was starting a food blog. Her first review at The Silver Swan ends in the alley behind it. She wants someone to write down what she saw. Chief Inspector Woods sees a frail old lady and sends for a paramedic.

Alyssa Bradley, Detective Constable in the Little Oakley Police. DC Bradley is the only officer outside The Silver Swan who asks the witness what she actually saw. She wants to make chief inspector, and she wants this case done properly. Her boss has already decided the old woman has nothing to give him.

Aaron Burns is dead behind a restaurant his mother half owns, and Little Oakley has settled on the chef who shouted at him an hour before. Emily saw that argument, and something else besides. Nobody has asked her about either.

Everyone at The Silver Swan looked straight past the old woman with the notepad. She was the only one writing it all down.

- retired widow amateur sleuth - a grandmother who has just stopped working and refuses to start knitting
- grandmother sleuth - three grown children who think she cannot manage a laptop
- food blogger turned sleuth - a notepad, a camera and one restaurant review that goes wrong
- fine dining restaurant murder - a furious chef, a resentful waiter and a half-owned village restaurant
- English village mystery - Little Oakley, smartened up for the tourists and short on secrets
- cat companion sidekick - Rosemary, a rescued tortoiseshell who supervises every recipe
- underestimated older woman - everyone offers her a chair and nobody asks her a question
- young policewoman ally - a detective constable who actually listens
- clean cozy fiction - no swearing, no gore, nothing on the page you would not read aloud

Perfect for fans of English village amateur sleuth mysteries, culinary cozy mysteries with a cat on the counter, and older heroines nobody sees coming.

Start the Emily Cherry cozy mystery series today.

Heat Level: Closed Door (no on-page intimacy)
Tone: Cozy - Witty - Heart-warming
Series Type: Book 1 in the Emily Cherry series - each book reads as a standalone
Ending: Hopeful close
POV: Single POV - Third Person
Content Notes: off-page death, grief, spousal loss, funeral scene

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CH2BKX3Q
• ISBN13: 9798859510122
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"