Who Moved My Goat Cheese? (A Farm-to-Fork Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Idaho
Lyrical Underground (March 6, 2018)
Paperback: 182 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1516103829
Kindle ASIN: B0721HJSH7
Angie Turner hopes her new farm-to-table restaurant can be a fresh start in her old hometown in rural Idaho. But when a goat dairy farmer is murdered, Angie must turn the tables on a bleating black sheep . . .
With three weeks until opening night for their restaurant, the County Seat, Angie and her best friend and business partner Felicia are scrambling to line up local vendors—from the farmer’s market to the goat dairy farm of Old Man Moss. Fortunately, the cantankerous Moss takes a shine to Angie, as does his kid goat Precious. So when Angie hears the bloodcurdling news of foul play at the dairy farm, she jumps in to mind the man’s livestock and help solve the murder. One thing’s for sure, there’s no whey Angie’s going to let some killer get her goat . . .
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Angie Turner has moved into her grandmother’s house following her death. She and her friend Felicia have decided to open a Farm to Fork restaurant called The County Seat. For their business to be a success they did to find enough local farms and dairies to meet their needs. The leader of the local farmer’s market group has decided the girls are too corporate to work with his group. Angie is doing her best to convince him otherwise. While at the speaking to the man she meets “Old Man Moss”. He owns and operates a goat dairy farm. He invites her out to see his place and they come to an agreement for working together. The next day Angie is shocked to find out that Moss is dead. Someone must have killed him not long after her visit. She feels connected to this man, he and her grandmother were friends. She decides while finding vendors for the restaurant she is going to do a little investigation of her own.
There is so much I loved about this series debut.
It starts will the theme, farm to table dining. This type of restaurant is popping up across the country. The dilemma of finding sources for your proteins and produce is true and it can make or break a restaurant. I sure hope Angie and Felicia have a very successful go of it.
Lynn Cahoon has created wonderful characters. I love the friendship Angie and Felicia have, they work well together and are smart enough to know living together would be too much. Angie has settled in on the farm with her dog Dom, her chicken Mabel, and newly adopted goat, Precious, while Felicia takes the apartment above the restaurant. We meet a lot of the residents of River Vista as the girls line up everything they need for the restaurant and snoop out the killer. I was sorry to see Mr. Moss die, he was a great character for the small amount of time he was alive within these pages. The characters were all very relatable and I am excited to see them evolve.
The story was well plotted giving the mystery several twists but I had my eye on the guilty party early on. Amazingly I was right.
I always say the first book in the series is hard. You have to set the scene, introduce the characters, and give the readers a great mystery to solve. Ms. Cahoon delivered a very entertaining story, set in a place I don’t read often about, along with engaging characters I want to know better. The best news is that I don’t have to wait long for the next installment, Killer Green Tomatoes
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, Lynn Cahoon is an Idaho native. If you’d visit the town where she grew up, you’d understand why her mysteries and romance novels focus around the depth and experience of small-town life. Currently, she’s living in a small historic town on the banks of the Mississippi river where her imagination tends to wander. She lives with her husband and two fur babies.
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Thank you for your wonderful review on “Who Moved My Goat Cheese?”. Your reviews are always so spot on and leave me wanting to read the book ASAP. 🙂 The same is with this one. This book is on my TBR list and can’t wait for the opportunity to read it.
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Yay! Love Idaho and this sounds delightful! I’m so looking for it!
I really love the cover! This sounds like a great start to a new series. Can’t wait to read.
I feel like singing A Farmer In The Dell.
This title cracks me up…as a former HR Director, I used Who Moved My Cheese in management training sessions! Looking forward to reading this.
I’ve been enjoying her Cat Latimer series. I bet I’ll enjoy this one, too.