The Vanishing Recipe

The Vanishing Recipe — Book 3 of The Thistlewood Tea & Treats Mysteries. It began with a tin. A battered, ordinary recipe tin that somebody was willing to do a great deal to get hold of.

A grand-niece arrives, a recipe goes missing, and the cellar has more to say than anyone in Thistlewood expected. The village weighs in, as it does. Leonard Pryce has opinions, as he does. But the nature of the recipe itself is the real question, and the texture of suspicion changes with every batch that comes out of the oven.

What to expect

• A culinary cozy where the food is genuinely part of the puzzle
• Village voices, a family secret and a properly clued solution
• Standalone; the Thistlewood regulars are all present

About the series

Thistlewood is an English village with a tea shop at its heart, a cat with a habit of turning up at the wrong moment, and rather more secrets than its size suggests. These are cosy mysteries in the traditional sense: an amateur sleuth, a closed circle of suspects, clues laid fairly on the page, and no graphic violence or gore.

Every book stands completely on its own — start anywhere — though readers who follow the series will keep meeting Pearl Whitmore, Clara Webb, Biscuit the cat and the rest of the village. 80 pages.

Browse the whole series in Cozy Mysteries, try the Romance Novels shelf, or explore the full Arb Digital Library.

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