Death of a Mystery Guest : Visit Edinburgh with the BRAND NEW Old Forge Cafe culinary cosy mystery!
Author: Coombs, Alex
Crime & mystery
Published on 10 April 2025 by Bedford Square Publishers in the United Kingdom as part of 'the An Old Forge Cafe Mystery' series.
Paperback / softback | 336 pages
130 x 198 x 23 | 234g
Readers love the Old Forge Café mysteries!'Another excellent addition to this superb series' ????? Real reader reviewCharlie Hunter does not like Christmas, especially the lead into it -- cooking endless servings of Christmas dinner. So when she is asked by Graeme Strickland, Michelin-starred chef, egomaniac and friend, to help out in a hotel restaurant in Edinburgh’s New Town, for a fortnight, she accepts with alacrity. The Head Chef, David Jenkins, is a very old friend of Strickland’s, and the job entails covering temporarily for a sous chef position, while Strickland provides cover for Charlie, gratis, in the Old Forge Café.
She is scheduled to be there for a fortnight. But Charlie arrives in Edinburgh just in time to discover David Jenkins being stretchered out. An autopsy reveals the Chef has been poisoned with mushrooms. Was it an accident or a murder attempt? It looks like Charlie may be doing a rather different job…