Auction House Murder
(2026)(The tenth book in the Perennial Sleuth Mystery series)
A novel by Tansy Blackwood
A poisoned cocktail. A museum full of beautiful lies. And one chef who knows better than to trust appearances.
Chef-owner Fiona Firth signed on to cater the Winter Auction, not to solve a murder. But before the last paddle drops, a celebrated art dealer is dead, and the drink in her glass was made with Fiona's own syrup.
With her Perennial crew holding the kitchen together, Tom digging through county files, Detective Walsh chasing the evidence, and Miso supervising from beneath a draped table with total faith in her own authority, Fiona starts reading the auction the way she reads a busy service.
A new curator wanted the victim out of her museum. An auctioneer kept cashing commissions after the paperwork got too tidy. An old friend's signature sits on the documents that started it all.
The closer Fiona looks, the more every clean record leads back to people she trusts.
Someone has spent years making lies look respectable. Now Fiona has to find the one lie worth killing to protect.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Chef-owner Fiona Firth signed on to cater the Winter Auction, not to solve a murder. But before the last paddle drops, a celebrated art dealer is dead, and the drink in her glass was made with Fiona's own syrup.
With her Perennial crew holding the kitchen together, Tom digging through county files, Detective Walsh chasing the evidence, and Miso supervising from beneath a draped table with total faith in her own authority, Fiona starts reading the auction the way she reads a busy service.
A new curator wanted the victim out of her museum. An auctioneer kept cashing commissions after the paperwork got too tidy. An old friend's signature sits on the documents that started it all.
The closer Fiona looks, the more every clean record leads back to people she trusts.
Someone has spent years making lies look respectable. Now Fiona has to find the one lie worth killing to protect.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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