New Year, New Murder

Author Lynn Cahoon On Tour
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$18.95 US
| $24.95 CAN
On sale Nov 24, 2026 | 224 Pages | 9781516112227

When a restaurant rivalry turns deadly in her coastal California town, Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner King must solve the murder before she can celebrate the New Year . . .

Turns out Jill will not be ringing in the New Year with her new husband, Greg, on a relaxing getaway in Mexico. Instead, an accident involving her store’s manager keeps her in South Cove, where she finds a competition heating up—to a deadly degree—for a local restaurant to win a float appearance at the New Year’s Parade.

Lille Stanley, the not-so-beloved proprietor of the town’s beloved diner, Diamond Lille’s, is going head-to-head with a hot new soup shop. But when its owner’s husband is found dead, clutching a secret recipe from Diamond Lille’s, the diner diva finds herself deep in the soup. Now it’s up to Jill to make sure justice is ladled out to the real killer—before Lille goes from behind the counter to behind bars . . .
Lynn Cahoon is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of cozy mysteries including the Kitchen Witch Mysteries, the Cat Latimer Mystery series, the Tourist Trap Mysteries, the Farm-to-Fork series, the Survivors' Book Club Mystery series, and The Bainbridge Island Mysteries. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers and her books have sold more than a million copies. Originally from Idaho, she grew up living the small-town life she now loves to feature in her novels. She now lives with her husband and two fur babies in a small historic town in Eastern Tennessee and can be found online at LynnCahoon.com.

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When a restaurant rivalry turns deadly in her coastal California town, Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner King must solve the murder before she can celebrate the New Year . . .

Turns out Jill will not be ringing in the New Year with her new husband, Greg, on a relaxing getaway in Mexico. Instead, an accident involving her store’s manager keeps her in South Cove, where she finds a competition heating up—to a deadly degree—for a local restaurant to win a float appearance at the New Year’s Parade.

Lille Stanley, the not-so-beloved proprietor of the town’s beloved diner, Diamond Lille’s, is going head-to-head with a hot new soup shop. But when its owner’s husband is found dead, clutching a secret recipe from Diamond Lille’s, the diner diva finds herself deep in the soup. Now it’s up to Jill to make sure justice is ladled out to the real killer—before Lille goes from behind the counter to behind bars . . .

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Lynn Cahoon is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of cozy mysteries including the Kitchen Witch Mysteries, the Cat Latimer Mystery series, the Tourist Trap Mysteries, the Farm-to-Fork series, the Survivors' Book Club Mystery series, and The Bainbridge Island Mysteries. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers and her books have sold more than a million copies. Originally from Idaho, she grew up living the small-town life she now loves to feature in her novels. She now lives with her husband and two fur babies in a small historic town in Eastern Tennessee and can be found online at LynnCahoon.com.
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