Hi all! My Name is Lena Gregory and I’m excited to share a bit about MURDER A LA MODE, the first novel in my new Coffee & Cream Café Mystery series with you.
M is for Murder. Which Danika Delaney is 100% sure she didn’t commit and 99ish% sure Luca Marinelli, her ex-boyfriend, didn’t commit.
U is for Unexpected. The last thing Danika expects to find when she returns home to take over her Uncle Jimmie’s failing ice cream parlor is a body in the basement.
R is for Rumors. The Watchogue gossip mill is working overtime to keep up with rumors of infidelity and murder.
D is for Detective Steamy. A.K.A. Detective Jake Barlow.
E is for Ethel. Or in Danika’s case, her best friend and partner in crime, Gwen Rothberg. (The Ethel to her Lucy, according to Detective Steamy)
R is for Revenge. If rumors are to be believed, Danika’s motive for killing Luca’s estranged wife, the same woman he cheated on her with at prom.
A is for Affair. Rumor also has it Danika returned at the same time Luca decided to divorce Heather because the two of them were having an affair.
L is for Luca. Luca Martinelli—with dark hair that’s always in need of a cut and gray eyes that could make your stomach tingle—looks like a Greed god chiseled in stone and come to life.
A is for Again. Danika dated Luca once upon a time and ended up fueling the gossip mill for weeks. Now, she’s only been home for a day and rumors are swirling around them again.
M is for Meddling. With Gwen’s help, Danika can’t seem to stay out of the murder investigation.
O is for Ogling. Ogling Detective Barlow is only a small part of the reason she keeps interfering.
D is for Danger. When Danika lands on the killer’s radar, her life is threatened.
E is for Embarrassed. A torn SpongeBob nightgown and a mud puddle with Danika’s butt print might just be enough to chase her out of town again.
Coffee & Cream Cafe Mysteries #1
From author Lena Gregory comes a delicious new series that will warm your heart and leave you guessing until the very end...
When twenty-five-year-old Danika Delaney, black sheep of the Delaney clan, returns home to Long Island to take over Jimmie's, her eccentric uncle’s old fashioned malt shop on eastern Long Island, she’s not exactly thrilled. But things start to look up when her uncle tells her she can do whatever she’d like with the shop, and it seems she might realize her dream of a small trendy café. That is, until she discovers the body of her ex-boyfriend’s estranged wife in a melted puddle of rocky road in the malt shop basement. With her two sidekicks, her sister and a good childhood friend, in tow, Dani searches for–or stumbles upon—one clue after another. But as she narrows down the suspect list, she realizes if she’s not careful she may end up in a puddle of her own...
Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Cozy [Gemma Halliday Publishing, On Sale: August 8, 2023, e-Book, ISBN: 2940166047939 / eISBN: 9798215753781]
Lena lives in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island with her husband and three children.
When she was growing up, she spent many lazy afternoons on the beach, in the yard, anywhere she could find to curl up with a good book. She loves reading as much now as she did then, but she now enjoys the added pleasure of creating her own stories.
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