Southern Discomfort

By Caroline Fardig

Southern Discomfort - Caroline Fardig
  • Release Date: 2018-03-06
  • Genre: Cozy Mysteries
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 47 Ratings

Description

Southern hospitality meets deadly deception in the start of a charming new mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of the Java Jive novels.

Quinn Bellandini loves her life in Savannah, Georgia, where she runs her grandfather’s B&B with her sister, Delilah. From baking fresh scones and serving up grits every morning to ensuring the guests see the best of their historic city, Quinn can’t imagine doing anything else—even if it means dealing with nuisances like the occasional malfunctioning commode. But when Quinn drops by the local restaurant owned by her friend Drew Green, and stumbles upon a murder, her whole world comes crashing down.

Drew’s brother was always a little surly, but Quinn can’t imagine that someone disliked the prickly chef enough to kill him. The police, on the other hand, don’t believe that Quinn was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Before her guests can even digest the next morning’s gourmet breakfast, Quinn learns that she and Drew are suspects.

Drew thinks they should do some investigating of their own. Quinn is pretty sure she’s better suited to playing hostess than amateur sleuth. But with Delilah as her cynical sidekick, Quinn starts looking for the real killer—before she gets put away faster than you can say “sugar.”

Discover all of Caroline Fardig’s gripping Southern B&B mysteries:
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT | SOUTHERN HARM | SOUTHERN DOUBLE CROSS
 
And don’t miss Caroline Fardig’s thrilling Java Jive mysteries, which can be read together or separately:
DEATH BEFORE DECAF | MUG SHOT | A WHOLE LATTE MURDER | BREW OR DIE | MURDER OVER MOCHAS

“I was hooked from the first page. I loved it!”—Dorothy Cannell, award-winning author of the Ellie Haskell mysteries, on Death Before Decaf

“This series is delightful, well written, and wildly entertaining.”Suspense Magazine

Reviews

  • Cozy mystery with a bumbling new investigator

    4
    By Wv teddy
    Southern Discomfort is a cozy mystery set in Savannah. Quinn Bellandini helps run her family’s bed and breakfast with her sister Delilah, Papa Sal and the ghost of Uncle Fred. Her friend Drew owns Green, the restaurant down the street. Former high school heartthrob Tucker lives across the street. Quinn finds Jason, Drew’s brother, in the restaurant after hours with a knife in his back. Quinn and Drew are both suspects but since no one liked Jason there are countless suspects so they decide to investigate on their own. When Drew is arrested, bumbling investigator Quinn enlists her sister Delilah to help. So far the book has been a formulaic cozy mystery but then Quinn gets sassy and things get interesting. The characters were well developed with enough background on their relationships to satisfy readers. The reader is given several possible killers but the ending was surprising. This is a statisfying cozy mystery with pleasant setting and a likeable heroine. I look forward to more books in this series. I want to thank Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book early in exchange for my honest review.