Muffins, Mayhem, and Murder

A Small Town Culinary Cozy Mystery with Cat

De: Maisy Marple

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Blair Whitcome left Chicago's cutthroat restaurant scene for a quieter life on the Gulf Coast, and for three years, Pelican Harbor has delivered exactly that — salt air, good gossip, and the satisfaction of feeding a town that has slowly, generously become home. Blair's Bistro sits at the warm center of Main Street, and Blair herself sits at the warm center of the community, known for her grandmother's cast-iron recipes, her sharp instincts, and an enormous, unbothered tabby cat named Lil' Beefy who supervises the kitchen from atop the walk-in cooler and considers mouse-catching a supplementary duty at best.

But Pelican Harbor's annual Founder's Day Festival brings more than celebration. When Blair returns to her bistro late one evening to retrieve a forgotten skillet, she finds the town's universally despised landlord dead on her kitchen floor — and her own cast-iron pan at the scene. With her fingerprints on the weapon, a documented argument with the victim on record, and Detective Ray Delcambre looking for the obvious answer, Blair realizes the obvious answer is her. Determined to clear her name before the investigation closes around her, she puts her sharpest skill to work: reading the room. In a small town where everyone talks and everyone eats, a chef who knows how to listen can learn almost anything.

With her best friend and sous chef Jojo at her side, her bookshop neighbor Nora supplying research and wisdom, and Lil' Beefy contributing in his own enigmatic way, Blair works her way through Pelican Harbor's tangle of grudges, debts, and buried secrets — one conversation at a time. Muffins, Mayhem, and Murder is a warm, witty, and deeply satisfying culinary cozy mystery for readers who want their sleuthing served with good food, genuine friendship, and a cat who, frankly, knows more than he lets on.