Dead Groupie - A Cozy Mystery Short Story

S. Y. Robins

Synopsis

After a long move, the drama of settling in, and the almost foreign world of New York after living her whole life in Tennessee, Jenny is having a hard time adjusting. When she takes a cooking class to get her out of the house and meet new people she never expects to be offered a place in a cooking competition, or that she’d become a murder suspect! When Jenny’s husband’s old flame turns up dead after a scene is made at the competition all eyes turn to Jenny. But all is not as it seems and maybe that old flame was more of a fling? And perhaps that fling wasn’t even that much? As Jenny struggles to introduce good old-fashioned southern cooking to the competition in the north she has to fight two battles; one for a trophy and the other for her freedom. Will her husband, Derrick, be enough to get her through one of the hardest battles of her life, or will duplicity and a whole lot of crazy be more than Jenny can defeat?

Disponible depuis: 25/10/2023.

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