Return to Cascade Bay (Elsie Hargrove Mysteries Book 1)

Description

Her new restaurant’s first course? Murder on ice.

Elsie Hargrove left town to find adventure. Murder found her when she came home. After ten years of adventuring around the world, Elsie returns to her hometown of Cascade Bay with a plan: transform the town’s abandoned riverside restaurant into an upscale dining destination. But when a local business tycoon is found dead in her walk-in freezer on opening night, Elsie’s fresh start becomes a deadly puzzle.

Working alongside Detective Jack Goodman—her former high school classmate who’s grown intriguingly compelling—Elsie discovers her hometown harbors secrets darker than she ever imagined. As more bodies surface and long-buried scandals come to light, it becomes clear that Cascade Bay’s quaint facade masks a web of blackmail, corruption, and revenge.

With her restaurant’s future at stake and a killer watching her every move, Elsie must decide if she’ll run again or stay to face the truth—even if it means confronting her own past. In this atmospheric mystery where everyone’s a suspect, and nothing is quite what it seems, coming home might be the most dangerous adventure of all.

Fans of Kerry Greenwood’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Louise Penny’s Three Pines series, Joanne Fluke’s culinary mysteries, and M.C. Beaton’s Hamish Macbeth book will love this charming cozy mystery with a strong female lead.