A Taste of Foxglove
Delia Fairweather · Thriller · Cozy mystery
About this book
Port Marrow, Cornwall. Nell Pennick traded a burnt-out London pastry career for her late aunt Dilys's tiny harbourside bakery, an orange cat, two hives of cliff-top bees and a shelf of cryptic recipe notebooks. Then, at the Harvest Fair bake-off, Gideon Stroud, the developer who wants to buy the harbour, takes one bite of Nell's lemon and honey drizzle cake, stands up, and dies in front of the whole village. The police take her cake. The neighbours cross the road. And Nell can't stop thinking about one small thing: three judges ate that cake, but only one of them had cream. With a sharp-eyed detective sergeant, a gruff harbourmaster with a secret, a haughty tearoom rival, and a dead woman's unfinished notebooks, Nell follows a trail of forged invoices, a cracked harbour wall and a very kind man with a very bad secret. The truth is closer to home than she wants, and her aunt may have known it all along. A warm, twisty cozy mystery with a seaside setting, a stubborn cat, plenty of cake, and a recipe worth keeping. The text of this novel was AI-generated. The cover artwork was AI-generated.