Murder at the Harbour Festival

Regatta week was meant to put Marigold Cove on the map. Instead it left a celebrity chef dead before the contest bell, and the whole town under suspicion.

When the famous, and famously cruel, television chef Damien Frost comes home to headline the new harbour food festival, café owner Hazel Quinn already has her hands full. There is a frightened grey kitten skulking by the festival tents, a smooth property developer who would love nothing better than to bulldoze her beloved Cat and Kettle into a marina, and a marmalade tom named Biscuit who has taken an instant and pointed dislike to the festival's far too helpful coordinator.

Then Frost is found collapsed in the prep tent, his lucky bun half eaten and his life-saving medicine mysteriously useless, and a brisk detective arrives from county determined to pin the death on the nearest convenient local. When suspicion falls on one of Hazel's dearest friends, she knows the tidy answer is the wrong one.

With the quiet help of Deputy Adam Cole, a bookshop full of the town's secrets, and a cat who notices everything, Hazel must untangle a thirty-year-old wrong, a harbour the whole town stands to lose, and a killer hiding in plain sight behind a perfect smile, before the festival's last bell rings and the wrong person pays.

A warm, witty, fair-play cozy mystery set in a small English seaside town. No gore, no bad language, no steamy scenes, and a clever cat who never once needs magic to be right. If you love cosy seaside villages, amateur sleuths, slow-burn chaste romance, and a mystery you can solve alongside the heroine, pour the tea and come home to Marigold Cove.

Perfect for readers who enjoy culinary cozies, animal cozies, and clean small-town whodunits.