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It was a treat to visit with the gang from the County Seat again in this Farm-to-Fork novella. Angie Turner, her boyfriend Ian McNeal and the County Seat family Matt Young, Hope Anderson, Estebe Blackstone, Felicia Williams and Nancy Gowan are on their quarterly team building trip. This time Matt has scheduled them to spend the night at the Old Idaho Penitentiary. Also along for the trip is Dom Angie's beloved St. Bernard.

Of course, where Angie goes trouble seems to follow. No sooner have they entered the old penitentiary and started their tour when a murder takes place. Since they are locked into the building until 6am the following morning, it's clear that the murderer has to be one of them.

There are 4 guards that serve as the tour guides - Bridget, Marty, Pat and Glen. The other participants of the tour are: Thaddeus Paige and his niece and nephew - Tamera and Tad Johnson.
Two sets of newlyweds: Nick & Sara and Jamie & Liz.

It was definitely a wonderful idea. Some parts of the book were a bit confusing. There is a lot to take in as a novella format. Around page 48 - Matt was referred to as Marty. "Marty popped his head up....." and then in the next sentence he is: "Ian handed Matt one of the flashlights......"

Will be looking forward to the next visit to the County Seat!!

I have read all the books in the series so far and I liked this book , but not as much as the others. I love all the regular characters in the series and look forward to reading more about them. This book was a little different not only was it shorter, I am assuming it is a novella, but we did not get as much interaction between the main characters. Still a good little story.


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In this spooky Halloween novella, Angie Turner hosts a team meeting of her County Seat Restaurant staff in the Idaho foothills at an old, haunted penitentiary site. Locked inside for 24 hours with no cell phones and a murderer among them—who they gonna call—when a ghost appears?

It’s a frighteningly fun short story just perfect for Halloween!

I honestly reviewed a digital arc provided by NetGalley and Kensington. Thank you.

This a a quick little read in the Farm to Fork series. A team building exercise, an old jail, a ghost story, and a murder! What a fun novella.

The County Seat crew are doing one of their team building exercises and this time they have elected to get locked into a supposedly haunted historical penitentiary, but it all goes awry when the screaming starts and a body drops. This book read so quickly that it felt more like a novella than a full book, but it could be that the story was so compelling that I just kept turning pages to see what happened next too quickly! I have to say that I wasn't sure about the premise when I started reading, but I absolutely love the characters in this series and the plot line was entertaining! It drew me in and kept me reading until I finished the last page! I love the interaction between the characters and felt that this book developed some of the auxiliary characters even more. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book!

Nice little novella for a quick read. Not very deep or involved because of its length. If you like this series you may enjoy this one
Thank you netgalley and the publisher for this arc

Here we have another winner in the Farm to Fork Mystery series! Once again, the gang is on the case and readers will have a blast following the characters and picking up clues right along with them! This has been a favorite cozy series of mine since the first book released and I'm already excited for more! Keep them coming!

This is a Farm to Fork novella, and the setting takes place in an old jail. The restaurant gang participates in a team building exercise which includes an overnight stay in a reportedly haunted jail.
When a dead body is discovered, they need to find out what exactly happened.
This is a cute story that is really fast to read.

I normally enjoy my visits with Angie and her bunch of characters, but this was difficult for me to get into. It was overly dramatic and too brief to have any meaning to me. I'd recommend the non-novella series to understand my affections for Angie, Ian and all of the rest.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.

If you love Halloween you will enjoy this novella from Lynn Cahoon.

Angie Turner and her crew from the Farm to Fork are headed to a haunted jail for a team building exercise. When a guard ends up with a knife struck in him.

Was it the guard he was fighting with or the guy that's been in and out of prison a number of times. Or the honeymoon couples? Of course Angie and her team can't stay out of it. They search the prison with the other guards and gather everyone in the common room. When the guards go off by themselves and don't come back. What are they to think?

Angie and Matt take Dom for a walk and on the way back stop to get a drink for him in the kitchen and her a noise behind a locked door, when they open it the find the three guards.

They decided to do a seance to get everyone talking not everyone was in favor of doing it. Of course secrets where revealed and killer's where caught.

This was a nine chapter short read in the Farm-to-Fork series, which I hadn't read before. Quite a place for a staff team building exercise, an abandoned jail with a real ghost. Of course a murder takes place with lots of suspects.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advance copy.

Angie Turner and her County Seat restaurant crew, have a team building exercise....overnight...in a 'haunted' prison accompanied by her dog Dom. It had been Matt's turn to pick. Surprise.
The crew along with the prison's employees and a few other guests are locked in overnight. It's too bad, one's a murderer and there's a few suspects until the ghost helps Angie and crew narrow it down.
Fun cozy with paranormal elements.
I requested and received a NetGalley ARC to peruse gratis and offer my opinion in the same spirit.

This is the 5th or really 4.5 since it is shorter story in the Farm to Fork Mystery series. Angie Turner is a chef in a farm to table restaurant and is having an off-site event building event with her group, boyfriend Ian and even her dog at an old state prison. This prison is allegedly haunted and there are “guards” who are acting their part and unfortunately one is actually murdered and the group is in lockdown with ghosts and a murderer. Angie and her team need to pull it together to get out and find out who did it. Paranormal twist was interesting. Good addition to the series.

When Angie and her County Seat team attend a team building lock-in retreat at a historic jail, she had no idea there'd be a murder. Reluctantly (she was really trying to stay out of these investigation), she decides to try and solve the mystery before the bad guy kills them all and gets away.

Great story. It was fun to visit with Angie and her crew. I really, really enjoy the Farm-to-Fork Mystery series.

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I enjoyed this story. It's a ghost story with an everyday murder. I'm not sure why the murder happened, that was kind of confusing in the book but the ghost part was great. #PennedIn #NetGalley

Angie, her boyfriend Ian and the rest of the crew from the restaurant, go to a haunted penitentiary for a team building fun. When a murder happens, though it is not what was expected. The group has one night to figure out who is the killer, and the game is on. I've read a few now in this series, and although I am usually not a fan of novellas I did enjoy this one. A quick and easy read, and a good story for Halloween. Highly recommend.

Lynn Cahoon has written another lovely novella with the cast from the Farm to Fork mysteries. But Penned In isn’t your stereotypical cozy mystery. It’s cold and creepy with a bit of the paranormal. The story starts with the imprisonment of Angie Turner, owner and lead chef of The County Seat, the rest of her staff, her boyfriend, Ian, and even Dom her dog in the Old Idaho Penitentiary. What should have been an interesting night filled with history turns spooky after one of the tour guides is murder and ghosts appear. Angie and her friends have to work fast under unusual circumstances to solve this mystery. A great quick read!

Love this series. Angie and the gang get to stay at a jail overnight. When a murder happens. Angie sets out to find the killer. To hear more read this short story

The latest novella in the Farm to Fork series by Lynn Cahoon centers around a halloween visit to a haunted jail. The restaurant staff are participating in a team building exercise and staying overnight with a few others and 3 "guards" to be prisoners locked in with the jail's legendary ghost while the veil between worlds is thinnest.
After one of the guards ends up dead Angie and her team try a deduct if there's a murderer amongst them or was it something supernatural? Can they survive until morning?

The novella had a interesting premiss, but as often happens with novellas, there just wasn't enough development/depth in the story to really grab me and invest me in the secondary characters. I found myself not enjoying as much as some of the others in the series. On the good side, if you love the series it brought you back into the Country Seat world while waiting for the next full length novel in the series.

I don't normally read novellas, but I loved this book! The plot was smooth and kept me interested. I had an idea who the killer was but was still surprised at the end. I am looking forward to the next book in the series -- and maybe will be reading other novellas!