Penned In

Lynn Cahoon

Aug 2020 · Lyrical Press

About this ebook

Angie Turner, chef at Idaho’s finest farm-to-table restaurant, has organized a team-building event at a haunted prison, only to find a real-life murderer in their midst. . . .
 
Contented employees make for a successful restaurant, which is why the County Seat’s crew goes on a quarterly out-of-office meeting. This time, the location is the Old Idaho Penitentiary near the Boise Foothills, a prison brimming with ghostly lore. The lock-in features actors role-playing as guards, fascinating prison stories . . . and an unscripted murder.
 
Who sentenced one of the faux guards to a very authentic death? Angie, her boyfriend, and the County Seat gang are locked in with a killer—excellent motivation for a little sleuthing. Between ghostly apparitions and flesh-and-blood suspects, Angie’s plate is full, but will her luck, and her life, hold out until the gates reopen at dawn?
 
Praise for Lynn Cahoon's Tourist Trap Mysteries
 
“Murder, dirty politics, pirate lore, and a hot police detective: Guidebook to Murder has it all! A cozy lover’s dream come true.”
—Susan McBride, author of The Debutante Dropout Mysteries
 
“Lynn Cahoon has created an absorbing, good fun mystery in Mission to Murder.”
—Fresh Fiction

 

Ratings and reviews

Penned In is A Farm-to-Fork Mystery novella. I do not recommend reading it on its own if you are unfamiliar with the series (come back and read it after you finish the others). I enjoyed reading Penned In. It was a delightful Halloween mini cozy mystery. All our favorite characters are back including the large and lovable, Dom as well as Precious, the Houdini goat. Each quarter the chefs from the County Seat do a team building exercise. It was Matt’s turn to pick the venue and he chose an old, supposedly haunted penitentiary. They are not allowed to bring in cell phones or other niceties (like food). I cannot imagine being locked in with a killer. This was a unique take on a locked room mystery. Penned In is a fun story to read with a delightful whodunit. There is a recipe for Chocolate chip muffins included. Penned In has a party penned in at the penitentiary, the darling Dom, a gone guard, and haunted happenings.

About the author

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Lynn Cahoon is an Idaho expat. She grew up living the small town life she now loves to write about. Currently, she’s living with her husband and two fur babies in a small historic town on the banks of the Mississippi river where her imagination tends to wander. Guidebook to Murder, Book 1 of the Tourist Trap series, won the 2015 Reader’s Crown award for Mystery Fiction. Visit her at www.lynncahoon.com