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The Rocky Road to Ruin
(2021)(The first book in the Ice Cream Shop Mysteries series)
A novel by Meri Allen
Justice will be swirled by amateur sleuth Riley Rhodes in the first in Meri Allen's brand-new mystery series, The Rocky Road to Ruin!
Riley Rhodes, travel food blogger and librarian at the CIA, makes a bittersweet return to her childhood home of Penniman, Connecticut land of dairy farms and covered bridges - for a funeral. Despite the circumstances, Rileys trip home is sprinkled with reunions with old friends, visits to her fathers cozy bookshop on the town green, and joyful hours behind the counter at the beloved Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop. It feels like a time to help her friend Caroline rebuild after her mother��s death, and for Riley to do a bit of her own reflecting after a botched undercover mission in Italy. After all, its always good to be home.
But Caroline and her brother Mike have to decide what to do with the assets theyve inherited the ice cream shop as well as the farm they grew up on and theyve never seen eye to eye. Trouble begins to swirl as Riley is spooked by reports of a stranger camping behind the farm and by the odd behavior of the shops mascot, Carolines snooty Persian, Sprinkles. When Mike turns up dead in the barn the morning after the funeral, the peace and quiet of Penniman seems upended for good. Can Riley find the killer before another body gets scooped?
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Riley Rhodes, travel food blogger and librarian at the CIA, makes a bittersweet return to her childhood home of Penniman, Connecticut land of dairy farms and covered bridges - for a funeral. Despite the circumstances, Rileys trip home is sprinkled with reunions with old friends, visits to her fathers cozy bookshop on the town green, and joyful hours behind the counter at the beloved Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop. It feels like a time to help her friend Caroline rebuild after her mother��s death, and for Riley to do a bit of her own reflecting after a botched undercover mission in Italy. After all, its always good to be home.
But Caroline and her brother Mike have to decide what to do with the assets theyve inherited the ice cream shop as well as the farm they grew up on and theyve never seen eye to eye. Trouble begins to swirl as Riley is spooked by reports of a stranger camping behind the farm and by the odd behavior of the shops mascot, Carolines snooty Persian, Sprinkles. When Mike turns up dead in the barn the morning after the funeral, the peace and quiet of Penniman seems upended for good. Can Riley find the killer before another body gets scooped?
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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