Deep Fried Death

by Maddie Day

Overview

The latest installment in Maddie Day’s deliciously popular Country Store cozy mysteries is sure to appeal to fans of Jenn McKinlay, Ellery Adams, Leslies Meier, and Joanne Fluke.

Many residents of South Lick, Indiana, claim the Outhouse Race, in which competitors push old-timey outhouse replicas on wheels at the annual Abe Martin Festival on Memorial Day, is the best thing since indoor plumbing. Just because country store and restaurant owner Robbie Jordan has too much to do managing her new deep fryer as well as an old lover reappearing, she’s not going to miss out on the fun. Plus, it’s good for business.

But when a dead body and a cast-iron skillet tumble out of the Pans ’N Pancakes outhouse entry on the race route, it seems someone is trying to frame Robbie—in a most unconventional way. Now she’ll need to be privy to the townsfolks’ secrets as she races to flush out a killer . . .
 
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496742278
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	12/26/2023
Series:	Country Store Mystery Series , #12
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	2,842
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Agatha and Macavity finalist author Maddie Day is a talented amateur chef who knows both Indiana and Cape Cod intimately. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and blogs with the Wicked Authors and at Killer Characters. Day lives with her beau north of Boston, where she gardens, cooks, and devises new murderous plots. She hopes you’ll find her at maddiedayauthor.com.

Editorial Reviews

2023-11-03
A competition among outdoor privies turns deadly.

Robbie Jordan isn’t keen on entering the Outhouse Race at the Abe Martin Festival. As owner of the eatery Pans ’N Pancakes, though, she feels obliged to participate in one of her town’s most popular events. But Robbie’s entry doesn’t even make it to the starting line. As she and employees Danna Beedle and Turner Rao struggle to get the boxy structure down from the parking lot, the door pops open and a body falls out. Robbie recognizes the deceased as Miss South Lick Diner proprietor Evermina Martin, a rival chef who’s offered some scathing criticisms of Pans ’N Pancakes on the internet. The murder of a rival restaurateur turns the unwelcome attention of the police on Robbie. Fortunately, lots of other people in Nashville, Indiana, have reason to dislike Evermina, including her ex-husband, Zeke, and Zeke’s new girlfriend, Wendy Corbett. Unfortunately, the list of people who’ve recently quarreled with Evermina includes Robbie’s brother-in-law, Don O’Neill. As South Lick police chief Buck Bird focuses more and more exclusively on Don, Robbie, who’s solved a murder or two in her time, feels the need to investigate. Her methods are surprisingly brusque, and they ruffle more than a few feathers around town, but her persistence pays off in the end.

Day’s protagonist generates more static than your typical cozy heroine, but, ultimately, she gets the job done.

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