Over the past year, Charlie has taken over the reins at the family diner so her parents can travel. It’s been nice returning home to Alaska and getting a fresh start. Charlie’s excited to put her own spin on the diner. She clashes with the head chef over the menu. Usually, their fights are no big deal. . . Oliver leaves and returns when his temper has cooled. But this time, he doesn’t come back.
Instead, the police tell her Oliver’s been murdered. Obviously word of their public fight has spread, and Charlie’s become a suspect. When Charlie shares the news with her parents who are away on a cruise, her mother begs her to help solve the case. Charlie does her best to help solve the murder and clear own her name.
MOUSSE AND MURDER is the start of a new charming cozy series featuring a small Alaskan town. Charlie loves trivia, feeding people, and being home again. Readers will feel the cold through the descriptions but will warm up with all food mentioned. Of course, there are delicious recipes included. There’s a potential romance in the air with a reporter, who is helping Charlie solve the murder. An adorable cat and a close-knit town help round out the book, but what really stands out is the uniqueness of the Alaskan setting.
A young chef might bite off more than she can chew when she returns to her Alaskan hometown to take over her parents' diner in this charming first installment in a new cozy mystery series set in an Alaskan tourist town.When Chef Charlie Cooke is offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Elkview, Alaska, to take over her mother's diner, she doesn't even consider saying no. After all--her love life has recently become a Love Life Crumble, and a chance to reconnect with her roots may be just what she needs.Determined to bring fresh life and flavors to the Bear Claw Diner, Charlie starts planning changes to the menu, which has grown stale over the years. But her plans are fried when her head cook Oliver turns up dead after a bitter and public fight over Charlie's ideas--leaving Charlie as the only suspect in the case.With her career, freedom, and life all on thin ice, Charlie must find out who the real killer is, before it's too late.
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