Best Served Dead

A Funny Halloween Paranormal Cozy Mystery

Welcome to The Ghoulish Gourmet—where the food is frightfully delicious and the mystery is killer.

Morty Graves, a passionate Halloween enthusiast and eccentric chef, runs Hollow Creek’s most infamous spooky-themed restaurant, serving up grotesque gourmet dishes like severed fingers, eyeball pasta, and bloody beet soup. But when a real corpse shows up in his kitchen, his creepy culinary dream turns into a murder mystery nightmare.

Now framed for murder and tangled in a sinister plot, Morty must uncover the secrets lurking beneath Hollow Creek’s charming surface. With twists around every corner, a town full of suspicious characters, and his reputation on the chopping block, Morty races against the clock to clear his name before his kitchen is closed—for good.

Perfect for fans of Halloween cozy mysteries, culinary crime fiction, and stories with quirky sleuths, The Ghoulish Gourmet blends humor, horror, and homicide into a deliciously twisted whodunit. If you love small-town murder mysteries with eccentric characters, deadly secrets, and a side of dark humor, this spine-tingling mystery is for you.