Killer Comfort Food: Farm-to-Fork Mystery Series, Book 5
Author : Lynn Cahoon
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Description :
Angie Turner’s Idaho restaurant, the County Seat, is known and loved for its fresh food. For Angie, it’s also meant a fresh start. But when big agriculture comes to town—along with whispers of foul play—Angie could lose more than the farm . . .A soybean processing plant is trying to buy up the land around the small farm Angie’s beloved Nona left her. If Angie doesn't sell, she'll be surrounded by the plant and the congestion that comes with it. On the other hand, it’s Nona’s farmhouse. What is Angie supposed to do without it? Move into a condo in town with Precious, Mabel, and Dom—respectively, a goat, chicken, and dog. Worse, a troubling rumor is circulating about the lawyer who’s heading up the development: His socialite wife seems to be missing. When Barb, owner of the local bar, asks Angie to look into the woman's disappearance, she’s hesitant—until Barb reveals her surprising connection. Now it’s up to Angie to find the woman, uncover a shady plot, and hang onto her home—before she becomes a criminal’s final course . . .
🐾 MY REVIEW 🐾

Cahoon draws the reader into the story instantly and there is no way you can stop reading until you get to the end of the story and uncover everything. I loved everything about this book starting with the characters ,the dog, various townspeople, And the food – there is so much food in this book and it made me so hungry. I also love the setting.The author was so descriptive with all the scenes that it made everything so easy to picture. It was easy to feel as if you were right there in the middle of all of it.
This was my first time ever reading anything by this author . Even though this was book 5 in the series i was easily able to read it as a stand-alone with no problem at all.The story moves at a good pace and i was able to finish it in one day. I can't wait to read more books by this author in the future.
I just want to say Thank you to author, publisher, and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this 5 star story . I truly appreciate it!

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I received a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions I have expressed are my own or those of my family.
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Thank you to Kensington Publishing, Lynn Cahoon, and Netgalley for an advanced reader copy of this book. I requested this one too soon to the publication date and was not able to read it before it was archived, so I bought the audiobook.

It was great to meet up with Angie and the County Seat gang again. The mysteries are keep me guessing, the main characters are likable and have healthy relationships, and the suspense is just the right amount for a cozy mystery.

Lynn Cahoon in Killer Comfort Food gives us a kitchen cozy with emphasis on food and suspicious death. Someone is trying to force the chef to sell her family farmhouse and people are missing What could go wrong?
Read and find out.

In the fifth Farm to Fork Mystery, Angie Turner has so much going on, I am surprised she was still standing at the end. A soybean processing plant is trying to buy the land around Angie's farm and is trying to get it rezoned. Angie does not want to sell, but if the zoning goes through, she could lose her farm regardless. While she is dealing with this, she is asked by Barb, owner of the local bar, to look into the disappearance of her daughter. The missing woman is also the wife of the lawyer representing the soybean people, so Angie already has a hate on for him. Of course he is her first suspect. Then a woman's body ends up in the local park. Are the women connected. Of course don't forget that she also runs the local County Seat farm-to-fork restaurant.

This story has so much going on that I couldn't put it down. I whizzed through it during the day while doing chores and then relaxing. I really like Angie. She is a human dynamo that is smart, and caring, is a great cook, boss and friend. She is dating the Sheriff's nephew so that does give her some in, but also provides her with protection when she sticks her nose in where it doesn't belong. i was not sure who was involved, how many people were involved or what the motives were, but Angie and her friends were able to sort things out. The culprit was hinted at during the story, so I was not surprised when it was revealed, but I enjoyed the story and how all the various pieces were pulled together

I am becoming a huge fan of the cozy mystery genre due to books like this. You can read this as an escape from the everyday in a weekend. A really good mystery.

Angie Turner, co-owner and chef for the County Seat restaurant, has a lot on her plate literally. Besides her duties in the kitchen, Angie is battling a land takeover by a large conglomerate who want to building a soybean factory on her farm and those around her. She is the lone holdout for selling. She wants to stay on her little farm with her private little zoo. But things are getting tough - the townsfolk are anxious for the plant and new jobs and the improvements they think will come with it. However, the lawyer in charge of the land acquisition has his own problems - getting Angie to change her mind and the fact that his wife is missing. Why does the factory have to be on that piece of land? Is it all related?

Angie and her crew are a great cast of characters, people you would want as your friends. The story was interesting with sufficient twists and turns and a great ending.

The main character is a chef. She lives on a farm that has been in her family for generations. A large company is buying up all the small farms so they can build a factory, but she does not want to sell. It seems they are resorting to strong-arm tactics.
I liked the story and the characters, but there was a lot of filler.

Thank you to Kensington Books and Netgalley for a gifted copy of Killer Comfort Food by Lynn Cahoon. All opinions are my own.

Killer Comfort Food is the fifth book in the Farm-to-Fork mystery series by Lynn Cahoon. Angie Turner is back and still running her local restaurant, the County Seat. There's a missing person, a found body and someone is trying to push Angie off of her Nona's farm in order to use the land to build a soybean processing plant. Angie is one of the only holdouts and they are not being nice about it. Where will she live with her pets without Nona's farm?

This was a fun cozy mystery. I haven't read the first four books yet but I will definitely be reading them before the sixth book is released. Cozies are famous for having pets and I love that Angie's pets are a St. Bernard, a goat, and an older hen that was her Nona's. There are a few storylines in this one which kept the story interesting throughout. Angie doesn't have a family but she has great friends and employees who are like a family to her.

Mystery & Thrillers
Release Date: January 5, 2021

With most cozy mystery series it always takes a few books to decide if I am going to like it or not. This is book five in  the Farm to Fork series and though it's not a favorite from the author I am really starting to enjoy it.

Angie runs restaurant that brings fresh foods to it everyday as a farm to fork style, she has a lovely farm and loves being able to pick foods from it and decide what is going on the menu. There is a soybean processing plant trying to buy up land and they want her farm. Angie is unwilling to sell putting her against a pretty big corporation and some of the townspeople who see this as a good thing.

Meanwhile, a rumor surrounding the disappearance of the lawyers wife who is heading up the development is making it's rounds and then Barb, the owner of a local bar, ask Angie for help in finding the woman. She reveals a surprising reason for wanting the woman found and Angie agrees to at least talk to the husband and she what she can find out.

So not only is she dealing with those wanting her home but trying to figure out what happened to this woman and someone really wants her to stay quiet.

I found this one to be pretty interesting as it had a few things going on at the same time. I love how Angie is so attached to her farm because she loves her animals and also the fact that it was her Nona's house. She could get very protective over her animals which I loved. I also found the disappearance of the woman pretty interesting and to see why it happened and to be honest I didn't figure it out. I had suspects but could just never narrow it down. :) I am also starting to really enjoy all the side characters especially Ian, Angie's boyfriend, he is very sweet and very patient with her getting herself in trouble a lot.

I think a lot of cozy lovers will enjoy this series.

A solid mystery featuring Angie and the gang. Not my favorite of the series, but enjoyable nonetheless. For whatever reason, I just didn't connect with this story as well as some of the rest in the series. Looking forward to the next installment.

Angie is worried about her Nona's farm and how she'll be able to save it. A soybean plant has been buying up the land around her and she doesn't want to sell. She has to think what life would be like surrounded by a working plant and the effects it could have on her daily life. Meanwhile a friend has asked her to help locate her missing daughter and Angie soon learns she's the wife of the lawyer who is trying to get her to sell. Angie soon learns that there is more going on than she realized and wants to bring to light a shady scheme that is going on around them. Can Angie be able to catch a criminal and stop them in their tracks or will they remain untouched by the law? Follow along and see how Angie handles the situation, does she catch a crook, save her farm, and find a missing woman or is all hope lost.

I am a huge Lynn Cahoon fan and her Farm-to-Fork series is a delightful read. There are lots of twists and turns that thread several strands throughout the story. Angie Turner is a strong individual and finds herself buried in a mystery that threatens her home. I love her delightful “pets”: Dom, the St. Bernard; Precious, the goat; and Mabel, the chicken. And Ian, her boyfriend, is always supportive … but protective of Angie.

The relationships that Angie has developed through her restaurant, The County Seat, and locals in River Vista make for a close knit community that support each other through whatever trials they may face. Lots of twists and turns as you enjoy a delightful murder mystery that has you guessing until the end. Though there are several characters to suspect!

Thank you to NetGalley and Lyrical Press for my advanced review copy. All opinions and thoughts are my own.

Another excellent edition to a wonderful series! Full of twists and turns that leaves you wanting more and enjoying each moment until the end when the killer is caught!

Angie is the co-owner of the restaurant called the County Seat in Idaho. She lives on her late Grandmother's farm with her dog Dom, and her pet chicken and goat. Land developers are trying to get her to sell out but she is holding out because she does not want to lose her home and all the memories that she has there. A corpse is found in the local park and then another woman goes missing. Then Angie learns that the developers have been known to use underhanded means to convince an owner to sell to them before. Can she uncover the connections between the land developers, the missing woman and the corpse before it is too late? A great cozy mystery that I would highly recommend to anyone. Thank you Net Galley, Kensington and Lynn Cahoon for the ARC e-book in exchange for an honest review..

I enjoyed this book in the the Farm-to Fork series. The mystery is well-written and kept my interest until the last page. The plot of this one was a bit sad to me as it is a very real situation for many and family farms are disappearing.

Angie always seems to be in the middle of things but I love the time she spends in the kitchen. I am a 'foodie' and this book had me ready to go cook.

The characters have become my 'friends' and I look forward to my next visit.

Every installment just gives more and more to the reader, and this latest in no different. The way the characters and their relationships are developing makes the reader feel they are right there with them. The mystery was well thought out and executed. A delicious read!

You never know what Angie’s next mystery will be, and sometimes you have to feel bad for Ian’s uncle, Sheriff Allen.

Now someone is trying to take her Nona’s property, there’s a missing woman with more than one important connection in town, Nancy’s ex is back in town, there are duplicitous lawyers, ladies who lunch, and people who don’t think twice about putting Angie’s animals in harms way.

Now, one of my favorite things about this series is the fact that while there are blood related family members who interact, and well, this focuses so much on the family we make ourselves - those people who we bring into our lives and come to care for and depend on, protect, defend and know will do the same for us, and this story has it in spades. Even relationships that you never would expected earlier in the series continue to grow and amaze.

While the book is about the mystery, the underlying story is about the family.

Killer Comfort Food earns 5/5 Soybean Sagas...Engaging Fun!

The County Seat is a popular business and engrained in the community’s landscape, but trouble is brewing keeping Angie, the owner, up at night. River Vista has blossomed from a farm town to a more budding urban community with a variety of new businesses opening on Main Street, but a big corporation is flexing its deep pockets and buying up some of the small farms in the area for a soybean plant. Nona’s farm is not for sale, but what will she do if the other farms cave to the very well-compensated pressure? Development is often a good thing, bringing in jobs is important, but how will this change the small, close-knit community? To take her mind off those looming problems, Angie has answered the plea by friend and owner of the Red Eye bar. The friend is frantic about her missing daughter and the husband’s story about his wife’s whereabouts doesn’t pass the sniff test. Law enforcement is skeptical there’s anything there, but what would it hurt checking into it?. Are there connections to all that’s going on in town? What about the dead body?

Lynn Cahoon has again transported me back to my family’s stomping grounds in and around Boise, Idaho, with a very entertaining fifth book in her Farm-to-Fork Mystery series. The well-crafted drama entangles Angie and her friends in a typical David and Goliath fight with big agriculture, but Goliath isn’t what he seems. Angie is consumed by her friend’s plea to find her missing daughter who, wait for it, is the wife of the lawyer representing Goliath...clever, a twisty, turny delight! There’s a dead body to add a bit of suspense, and the final reveal was karmic closure. Lynn’s writing style using a third-person narrative keeping readers engaged with descriptive language to paint a small town, the farm, the various characters and dialogue to illustrate the personalities. She does well to make a couple characters act oddly enough to add to my suspicious nature. Family, however defined, is a central theme whether it’s the close knit restaurant crew, a loving boyfriend, or the boyfriend’s family along with a foster teen adjusting, an ex-husband harassing, a birth mother worrying, and a husband distraught-ing. The lives of The County Seat crew, River Vista residents, and the fur and feathered friends are just as enjoyable as all the mayhem and murder.

Lynn always includes a recipe, and in this book, she chooses a childhood treat that, for her, brought up some nice memories. For me, mince pies, Snickerdoodles, or a big pot of stew, even serving these foods on my Franciscan apple dinnerware floods my mind with memories of visiting my grandparents in Boise. Enjoy Lynn’s Quick Cookies, the first cookies she learned to make with which she did suffer a few bad batches, but she offers some tips to make your attempt a success. Oddly, the recipe seems to mirror some “no-bake” cookies my mother would make and stick in our school lunches. There were always extras for sharing, trading, or bribing.

Another great installment in the Farm to Fork series. Someone is trying to take Angie's farm from her. Her friends daughter is missing. Is it all connected? Can Angie figure it out before its too late?

Killer Comfort Food is the fifth book in the Farm to Fork series by Lynn Cahoon. I have to admit, I have never found a Lynn Cahoon book I didn’t enjoy. Angie is the co-owner of the Country Seat restaurant. She has a lot of things going on these days. There is a soybean company that is trying to buy up farmland in the area – including her home. This is the home where Angie’s grandmother raised her. It is the home she has made her own. The home that she has populated with an assortment of animals that mean everything to her.
In addition, her friend Barb’s daughter is missing. Barb has asked Angie to look into the disappearance.
And one of her chef’s, Nancy, is being stalked by her ex-husband.
Oh, and her teenage employee, Bleak, is dealing with some personal struggles too.
While Angie deals with this, she also needs to keep the restaurant open. Angie gets help from her friend and business partner, Felicia. She also gets help from her longtime boyfriend, Ian.
Everything does wrap up happily for the crew from the Country Seat. This is an easy read that will keep you interested until the ending. I think you will find yourself looking for more Lynn Cahoon books when you finish this one.