Death and Breakfast: a Small Town Bed and Breakfast Cozy Mystery With Cat Buttercup Inn Mysteries Book

A Deadly Breakfast. A Charming Inn. A Cat Who Knows Too Much.When Rosie Pemberton inherits her aunt’s Victorian bed and breakfast in picturesque Willowbrook Falls, Vermont, she’s looking forward to a quieter life after twenty years in Boston’s corporate world. But her grand opening weekend at the Buttercup Inn turns deadly when notorious food critic Victor Ashford takes one bite of her famous blueberry scones and drops dead at the breakfast table. With her business on the line and a dining room full of suspects, Rosie must figure out who wanted Victor dead—and the list is longer than her aunt’s secret scone recipe.Armed with her event planner’s eye for detail, backed by her best friend Betty’s gossip network, and aided by Chester—a marmalade cat with an uncanny ability to appear at crucial moments—Rosie discovers that everyone had a motive. From Victor’s long-suffering assistant to a mysterious wealthy widow, from a bird-watching professor who isn’t what he seems to the victim’s own brother, secrets simmer beneath Willowbrook Falls’ postcard-perfect surface. There’s even talk of stolen paintings, blackmail schemes, and financial fraud that could destroy the town’s most prominent citizens.As Sheriff Whitfield dismisses her as a meddling amateur and more secrets emerge with each cup of coffee served, Rosie realizes that in a town where the pipes sing opera and people steal lawn gnomes for ransom, murder might not be the strangest thing to happen at her inn. But if she doesn’t identify the killer soon, her dream of running a peaceful Vermont B&B will be as dead as her first guest. Good thing she has Chester on the case—though even he seems more interested in the bacon than the investigation.