New Year, New Prosciutto
(2023)(The eighth book in the Guy Vanduex Cozy Mystery series)
A Novella by Jeffrey Shields
Get ready for a New Year’s Eve like no other in the Town of Tempest, hosted by Mayor Sam Simpleton. When a party-goer turns up dead, complete with a cryptic note, the night shifts from festive to mysterious. And here’s a twist – the story unravels in real-time as you turn the pages.
Enter Guy Vanduex, a former chef turned private detective. For Guy, clues are ingredients, each one essential to the final recipe – or solution. With the police not on the scene, Guy and his sidekick Sylvia step up to unravel the evening’s mystery. They’re faced with a list of quirky suspects and baffling ‘ingredients’ – a riddle-laden note, a tell-tale shoeprint, and a mysterious triangle drawn by the victim, all adding flavor to this recipe.
As midnight nears, the duo encounters high stakes and high jinks, including a not-so-accidental toppling of champagne towers. Tension mounts with the threat of another sinister event – maybe a bomb, likely a murder – adding urgency to their mission.
Can they solve the mystery before the new year begins? It’s a race against real time as they sift through the ‘ingredients’ to prevent disaster and unmask the culprit.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Enter Guy Vanduex, a former chef turned private detective. For Guy, clues are ingredients, each one essential to the final recipe – or solution. With the police not on the scene, Guy and his sidekick Sylvia step up to unravel the evening’s mystery. They’re faced with a list of quirky suspects and baffling ‘ingredients’ – a riddle-laden note, a tell-tale shoeprint, and a mysterious triangle drawn by the victim, all adding flavor to this recipe.
As midnight nears, the duo encounters high stakes and high jinks, including a not-so-accidental toppling of champagne towers. Tension mounts with the threat of another sinister event – maybe a bomb, likely a murder – adding urgency to their mission.
Can they solve the mystery before the new year begins? It’s a race against real time as they sift through the ‘ingredients’ to prevent disaster and unmask the culprit.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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