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Toast and Treachery
(2021)(The first book in the Mad Egg Diner Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Constance Barker
Welcome to the Mad Egg Diner, Where Your Eggs are Cooked Over Easy and Your Murder is Hard Boiled
Melody Bristol loves running her family diner in Cascade, Colorado, and enjoys her sassy staff and all the eccentrics who pop in for hand-cured maple bacon and the best coffee in town. But when one of them, a salty shopkeeper named Promise Murray, is clocked over the head with an iron cauldron and the murder weapon shows up in Melody’s kitchen, her mountain idyll suddenly seems less than cozy.
Determined to clear her name, she defies a direct order from the town’s best detective, the ruggedly handsome Gabe Mitchell, and digs into the case herself. As her girlfriends fret themselves silly, Melody uncovers a crabby cleaner, a thuggy thief, and a lecherous lover before she hits a stonewall and the case stalls out.
Happily, “cowboy cop” has fared no better, and she’s able to convince him to stop kvetching and join forces. Just as they finally unravel the tangle of clues, a dire warning from a most unlikely source pushes the detection duo into new and unwelcome territory.
Does Cascade, Colorado harbor a dark secret?
Is this random-seeming murder part of a much larger crime?
And can Melody and grouchy Gabe solve the puzzle before somebody else gets their bell rung?
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Melody Bristol loves running her family diner in Cascade, Colorado, and enjoys her sassy staff and all the eccentrics who pop in for hand-cured maple bacon and the best coffee in town. But when one of them, a salty shopkeeper named Promise Murray, is clocked over the head with an iron cauldron and the murder weapon shows up in Melody’s kitchen, her mountain idyll suddenly seems less than cozy.
Determined to clear her name, she defies a direct order from the town’s best detective, the ruggedly handsome Gabe Mitchell, and digs into the case herself. As her girlfriends fret themselves silly, Melody uncovers a crabby cleaner, a thuggy thief, and a lecherous lover before she hits a stonewall and the case stalls out.
Happily, “cowboy cop” has fared no better, and she’s able to convince him to stop kvetching and join forces. Just as they finally unravel the tangle of clues, a dire warning from a most unlikely source pushes the detection duo into new and unwelcome territory.
Does Cascade, Colorado harbor a dark secret?
Is this random-seeming murder part of a much larger crime?
And can Melody and grouchy Gabe solve the puzzle before somebody else gets their bell rung?
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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