Perennial Sleuth Mysteries: Books 5-8
(2026)(A book in the Perennial Sleuth Mystery series)
An omnibus of novels by Tansy Blackwood
Return to Seacliff Springs, where the summer crowds fill the sidewalks, The Perennial is booked solid through the season, and trouble keeps finding its way to Fiona Firth's door.
The kitchen is running the way Fiona always wanted it. Her crew can read her from across a full service, Detective Walsh has stopped pretending she does not want Fiona's read on things, and Tom has gone from a name on an inspection report to the person she tells things to first. Miso, of course, still gets to the important part before anyone else. Fiona has stopped pretending she just happens to be nearby when someone dies.
These are warm, comforting, food-forward mysteries, easy to sink into and full of people who feel like old friends by the fourth book.
This collection includes:
Pop-Up Dinner Murder
A celebrity chef collapses mid-bite at an exclusive pop-up hosted by Fiona's sharpest rival, and Fiona is close enough to see it happen. As the rival closes her kitchen ranks, the staff start protecting each other instead of the truth, and the story shifts every time someone retells it, Fiona has to work out what that kitchen agreed not to say.
Barbecue Cook-Off Murder
A judge at the town's annual cook-off is poisoned in front of sponsors, cameras, and half of Seacliff Springs. With the evidence pointing cleanly at one person, the town hungry for the case to be over, and Walsh close to charging someone who did not do it, Fiona has to slow everything down before the wrong name goes on the arrest.
Class Reunion Murder
The class of 1975 books The Perennial for their fiftieth reunion, and one of them does not make it past the first course. He had come back to finally tell the truth about a drowning fifty summers ago, and as old alliances tighten and a journalist circles the story, Fiona has to reach what he knew before the table closes ranks around it for good.
Harvest Market Murder
Fiona sent the invitation that brought Sylvia Crane to the harvest market, and Sylvia does not survive the tasting table. As the people Sylvia sidelined over twenty years start surfacing, the guilt of having asked her there settles in, and Fiona has to work out which old injury finally came due.
Four more warm-hearted whodunits in a seaside series where the food is real, the community is worth defending, and the cat gets there first.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
The kitchen is running the way Fiona always wanted it. Her crew can read her from across a full service, Detective Walsh has stopped pretending she does not want Fiona's read on things, and Tom has gone from a name on an inspection report to the person she tells things to first. Miso, of course, still gets to the important part before anyone else. Fiona has stopped pretending she just happens to be nearby when someone dies.
These are warm, comforting, food-forward mysteries, easy to sink into and full of people who feel like old friends by the fourth book.
This collection includes:
Pop-Up Dinner Murder
A celebrity chef collapses mid-bite at an exclusive pop-up hosted by Fiona's sharpest rival, and Fiona is close enough to see it happen. As the rival closes her kitchen ranks, the staff start protecting each other instead of the truth, and the story shifts every time someone retells it, Fiona has to work out what that kitchen agreed not to say.
Barbecue Cook-Off Murder
A judge at the town's annual cook-off is poisoned in front of sponsors, cameras, and half of Seacliff Springs. With the evidence pointing cleanly at one person, the town hungry for the case to be over, and Walsh close to charging someone who did not do it, Fiona has to slow everything down before the wrong name goes on the arrest.
Class Reunion Murder
The class of 1975 books The Perennial for their fiftieth reunion, and one of them does not make it past the first course. He had come back to finally tell the truth about a drowning fifty summers ago, and as old alliances tighten and a journalist circles the story, Fiona has to reach what he knew before the table closes ranks around it for good.
Harvest Market Murder
Fiona sent the invitation that brought Sylvia Crane to the harvest market, and Sylvia does not survive the tasting table. As the people Sylvia sidelined over twenty years start surfacing, the guilt of having asked her there settles in, and Fiona has to work out which old injury finally came due.
Four more warm-hearted whodunits in a seaside series where the food is real, the community is worth defending, and the cat gets there first.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Used availability for Tansy Blackwood's Perennial Sleuth Mysteries: Books 5-8