![]() Obviously not in any hurry but just think it would be wonderful. PLEASE lessen your impact on the earth by eating less meat that Love Bug has a bubba so I get to be a grandma. With a delightful cast of characters, an inventive amateur sleuth, and a whole host of cheesy hijinks, Up to No Gouda is the perfect cozy murder mystery to melt into.Our planet is in dire need of us changing our ways – with the climate crisis worsening daily. In order to save her eatery and prove her friend's innocence, Carly must sleuth out the killer before she's the one who gets grilled. That is.until Lyle is discovered dead behind the dumpster of Carly's shop, and one of her employees becomes the prime suspect. After a muenster of a fight, Carly's forced to put her nose to the rind and find a solution to keep her business afloat. All but Lyle Bagley, Carly's one-time high school boyfriend and now town bully who just bought the building that houses her eatery and wants Carly out. After only five months, business is booming as Vermont vacationers and townspeople alike flock to lunch on her Party Havartis and other grilled cheese concoctions. The first in a delicious new culinary cozy series featuring a grilled cheese eatery owner who must solve murders in her small town before she is put under lock and brieīack in Balsam Dell to heal after the death of her husband, Carly Hale is finally pursuing her lifelong dream-opening Carly's Grilled Cheese Eatery. ![]() Join her at her eatery in Balsam Dell, Vermont for a scrumptious grilled cheese, a bowl of tomato soup, and a few tidbits of gossip about murder. UP TO NO GOUDA is Carly’s first (but not her last!) venture into solving murders. When Carly finds her landlord’s body behind her restaurant the following morning, she’s forced to squeeze herself into the investigation before one of her employees get grilled for the crime… That is, until her new landlord hands her an eviction notice and orders her eatery to vacate. She has two wonderful employees-Grant and Suzanne-and her business is gaining traction. ![]() For starters, I ditched the name “Marnie” for “Carly.” Carly is a widow in her early thirties who returns to her Vermont hometown to open a grilled cheese eatery. It wasn’t until my fourth set of revisions that my agent felt I’d hit the mark. Duly humbled, I went back to the drawing board, er…keyboard. She also wasn’t keen on a “good guy” like Dumpy ending up as the victim. The sandwich shop was unappealing, and she pointed out that nary a single grilled cheese appears in the opening chapters. She felt the name “Dumpy” was unappetizing. Eventually she solves the murder, takes over the sandwich shop, and transforms it into the grilled cheese eatery she’s always longed to own. When the police deem it to be foul play, Marnie launches her own investigation into the deadly crime. Marnie wonders: Is that why Dumpy’s sandwiches have been tasting a bit off? Is he using expired cold cuts? And who’s the young man Dumpy recently hired-the one he claims is his long-lost son? Where does that guy fit into the picture? These questions swirl in Marnie’s mind until the following morning, when she finds Dumpy’s body in the parking lot. Almost no one is eating there! The new sub shop in town has “stolen” most of Dumpy’s customers, leaving his sandwich shop to flounder. As chapter one opens, Marnie stops at the local sandwich shop where her dear friend, a character I dubbed Dumpy (a childhood nickname he embraces!) presents her with a birthday cupcake. The main character was Marnie, a woman who gets fired from her job on her 40th birthday. ![]() I wrote what I believed were three enticing chapters, along with a synopsis. ![]() When my niece Ashley paid me a visit, and I posed the question to her: “If you were going to write a culinary cozy mystery set in Vermont, would you choose popovers or grilled cheese?” Her answer came instantly: “Grilled cheese!” Luckily, my wonderful agent agreed and asked me to write a proposal.Īh, I can do that. I tucked the idea in the back of my mind.īack then, I’d been juggling two ideas for a new cozy series-popovers and grilled cheese. As we traveled through southern Vermont, we passed through a quaint little town I thought would make a perfect setting for a cozy mystery. Years ago, when my dad was still living, my folks and I always took a yearly ride from their Massachusetts home to visit friends in Vermont. ![]()
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