Grammy's Secret Recipe

Strawberry Top Short Mystery, Book 1

By: CC Dragon

Narrated by: Lauri Jo Daniels

When good Southern girls get divorced, they go back home to mama....

Stacey "Strawberry Top" Fields is home again in small town Willowbrook, TN. Divorced, she's already earned her amateur sleuth badge by proving her super rich ex-husband cheated on her (and getting her share of the money per the pre-nup). A prize-winning cook and blue-ribbon baker, she was a fabulous wife and hostess, but now she's starting over.

It's fun to be home with friends and family, but even quiet little towns have problems. Secrets and lies make people do desperate things - small towns just hide them better. When someone steals Grammy's precious family recipe book, Stacey must track it down or never hear the end of it. That book means the world to the family, and since cooking is Stacey's future, no one is going to steal her family's culinary heritage and get away with it!

©2015 CC Dragon (P)2017 CC Dragon

A Deliciously Light-Hearted Mystery

I overall enjoyed the light tone of this short mystery. I only wish that the story focused more on solving the mystery, and less on the superfluous goings-on of extraneous characters. I'm just glad that the focus wasn't entirely on the main character's relationship/marital status. I thought the cooking aspect was a plus.

I'm from Alabama, and the narrator did a reasonably good southern accent.

Grammy's Secret Recipe

This is a super sweet and fun short mystery. I love the cats part at the end! And I so did not see who was going to be the culprit. The characters were so much fun and very interesting. I look forward to seeing more of them in future books. Grammy seems so uptight but you get a whole new outlook on her at the end. I look forward to more of her too! I love a good southern book! Nice job on narration.