Four Leaf Cleaver (Country Store Mystery #11)

by Maddie Day

Overview

The eleventh installment in Maddie Day’s deliciously popular Country Store cozy mysteries . . . It’s Saint Patrick’s Day in  South Lick, Indiana, but a holiday cooking competition at Robbie Jordan’s country store and restaurant Pans ’N Pancakes is put on the back-burner when a killer strikes.
 
There’s no mistaking Saint Patrick’s Day at Pans ’N Pancakes. Robbie may only be Irish by marriage to Abe O’Neill, but the shelves of vintage cookware in her southern Indiana store are draped with glittery shamrocks and Kelly-green garlands and her restaurant is serving shepherd’s pie and Guinness Beer brownies. The big event, however, is a televised cooking competition to be filmed on site.
 
Unfortunately, someone’s luck has run out. Before the cameras start rolling, tough-as-nails producer Tara O’Hara Moore is found upstairs in her B&B room, bludgeoned apparently by the heavy hilt of a cleaver left by her side. Now, not only does Robbie have a store full of festive decorations, she’s got a store full of suspects . . .
 
Includes Recipes for You to Try!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496735669
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	01/24/2023
Series:	Country Store Mystery Series , #11
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Maddie Day is the Agatha Award and Macavity Award nominated author of the Cozy Capers Book Club Mystery series and the Country Store Mysteries, as well as other series written under the name Edith Maxwell. A member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, she contributes monthly to KillerCharacters.com and belongs to The Wickeds, a group of six bestselling authors who blog at WickedAuthors.com. Day lives with her beau and two elderly cats north of Boston, though she knows both Indiana and Cape Cod intimately. She is a talented amateur chef and gardener and can be found online at MaddieDayAuthor.com.
 

Maddie Day is the Agatha Award-winning author of the Cozy Capers Book Club Mysteries, the Country Store Mysteries, the CeCe Barton Mysteries, and the Local Foods Mysteries, as well as other series and short crime fiction written under the name Edith Maxwell. A member of Mystery Writers of America and a proud lifetime member of Sisters in Crime, she is a regular contributor at Mystery Lovers' Kitchen and belongs to the Wicked Authors, a group of bestselling authors who blog at WickedAuthors.com. Day lives with her beau and their cat Martin north of Boston, although she knows Indiana, California, and Cape Cod intimately. She is a wine enthusiast, talented amateur chef, and former farmer and can be found online at MaddieDayAuthor.com.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Maddie Day’s Country Store Mysteries

“Readers can’t get enough of these fleecy thrillers set at country stores.” —The Boston Globe
 
“The literary equivalent of comfort food.” —Mystery Scene Magazine
 
“For those of us who won’t be spending the summer traveling, the next best thing is to pick up Maddie Day’s latest Country Store Mystery.” —CrimeReads on Nacho Average Murder
 
“Robbie is a sympathetic character who is surrounded by quirky, well-drawn characters.” —Booklist on Strangled Eggs and Ham
 
“It’s always fun for the reader to spend time in South Lick, Indiana, with this terrific cast of characters.” —Criminal Element on Strangled Eggs and Ham
 
“It’s always a joy to visit Pans N’ Pancakes.” —Fresh Fiction on Strangled Eggs and Ham
 
“With a small-town atmosphere and a spunky heroine this is the perfect cozy mystery.” —Parkersburg News & Sentinel on Strangled Eggs and Ham

From the Publisher

2022-12-24
Murder disrupts a reality show that’s being filmed at a small-town pancake joint.

Robbie Jordan, owner of Pans ’N Pancakes, is pleased as green punch when a national production company decides to film its St. Patrick’s Day episode of Holiday Hot-Off in her rural Indiana cafe. She decks the walls with shamrocks and listens carefully as producer Tara Moore ticks off the rules: All recipes must include Hoosier Brewing Company’s Irish stout, everything must be cooked on the spot, and no baking in an oven is allowed. Tara’s such a stickler for detail that Robbie’s surprised when neither she nor her assistant, Jaden Routh, turns up at the restaurant the morning of the shoot. Surprise turns to agitation when Jaden arrives without his boss and finally gives way to panic when Robbie discovers Tara dead in her B&B. There are so many suspects with so many motives, from rivals whose recipes Tara stole for her cookbook to production company hopefuls who are after her job, that Robbie can hardly concentrate on the asparagus specials she wants to offer on her spring lunch menu. But much as she’d like to keep her mind on her cafe—and on her plans for starting a family with her husband, Abe—Robbie can’t resist the itch to investigate, with results that should surprise no one.

A cafe cozy plus a TV-show cozy equals no value added.

Kirkus Reviews