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Death of a Mystery Guest - Visit Edinburgh with the BRAND NEW Old Forge Café culinary cosy mystery! - cover

Death of a Mystery Guest - Visit Edinburgh with the BRAND NEW Old Forge Café culinary cosy mystery!

Alex Coombs

Publisher: No Exit Press

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Summary

Readers love the Old Forge Café mysteries!
'Another excellent addition to this superb series' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Real reader review
Charlie 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…
Available since: 04/10/2025.
Print length: 336 pages.

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