Really enjoyed this book. Great plot and engaging, believe characters. I was drawn right into the story. Would definitely recommend.

I've been a long time reader of Lynn Cahoon but I haven't given much attention to this series until recently. After reading the first book I had been kind of meh on the first book because I didn't really care for Angie but the more of this series that I read the more I fall in love with it. I'm still not sure how I feel about Angie but I love the world she lives in with the people at the restaurant, the community around her, and her animal menagerie at home. The mystery was enjoyable and I really wasn't quite sure who the killer was until Angie figured it out. This isn't the most memorable of mysteries but it's fun and is quickly turning into a bit of a comfort read. If you love a foodie cozy with an interesting mix of characters and a not so perfect main character this is a good series to try.

I like most the Farm-to-Fork mysteries, but this one didn’t hit quite right. Estebe rubbed me the wrong way in this one. Angie Turner has some good ideas and great deductive reasoning skills.

Angie turner and her best friend, Felicia, have turned their restaurant into a success. They have also created a family among the staff. The youngest, Hope, a culinary student, has a crush on one of her professors. However he has a reputation as a womanizer. All is not as it appears and when Hope is a suspect in the Professor's murder, Angie must jump in with both feet to protect her friend.
It is the characters that make this series. Lots of relationship changes happen this time. Some very tense moments too.

Hope is a culinary student working at The County Seat, Angie Turner’s restaurant. Hope develops a crush on a visiting professor and after a quick visit to his home, he is found dead. Angie suspects the professor isn't who he said he was and is determined to prove Hope had nothing to do with his death.

The story and characters are great. I'll be reading more in this series.

Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of One Potato, Two Potato, Dead.

This was a quick cozy. I enjoyed the characters. The town seems fun and I'd love to read more about it and it's residents. I always enjoy cozy mysteries that center around cooking. The mystery itself fell very flat for me. It almost wasn't even a mystery, as the MC seemed to have piece the killer together right away (and informed readers) and there were very few other possible suspects after about the halfway point. I'd be willing to give another book in this series a chance, given that I did enjoy the characters and setting, and hopefully the plot is a little more mysterious.

The characters are all well written, relatable, and well developed which makes them believable and seem like old friends. The author keeps the reader guessing about who the killer is by the way she drops clues and red herrings throughout the entire story. There is also some romance for various characters which gives the story a nice subplot from the mystery.

I enjoyed seeing how the main characters and secondary characters have seemed to develop since the first book. I couldn't stand Taylor she was a total jerk from the first time we are introduced to her. I did find myself getting a little tired of reading about every time Angie feeds her animals, or takes Dom out for a walk. I like the relationship between Angie and Ian, they seem to compliment each other. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series Have a Deadly New Year, to see what happens to Angie and the rest of the characters.

I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley and Lyrical Underground for my review.

Dollycas’s Thoughts

The County Seat, a farm to fork restaurant has been busy since it opened. Angie and her best friend Felica and their competent staff are thrilled they are now open more days and they continue to have new ideas to add to the staff’s hours.

Felicia is dating the director of a Boise mission and she persuades the staff to serve a meal there. While there they meet one of Hope’s professors. She has been working as their chef-in-training/dishwasher and everyone agrees she has a bright future. It is obvious she a crush on the man. Angie’s boyfriend Ian, recognizes the man from his past in England and is confused because he is using a different name.

After the meal is served the professor requests a ride home and Hope jumps at the chance. When the man is found dead the next day, Hope confesses she did have a glass of wine with him but he was very much alive when she left. The whole County Seat family rally together to help Hope. Angie is on a mission to find the real killer so Hope can get back to doing what she loves – cooking.

What I love about this series is that the staff of The County Seat really gel, they are more like family than co-workers. This time Hope gets the benefit of that family. They get her a lawyer, they keep their eyes and ears open for any news/gossip that could help catch the killer, and when it is determined Hope may be in danger they come up with a plan to keep her safe. These well-developed characters are so genuine and easy to like

I did miss Mrs. Potter as she and her granddaughter are away visiting family. But Angie’s little zoo with her goat Precious and her Mabel are visited at least once a day. Angie’s Saint Bernard Dom and Precious have come to a mutual agreement. Dom will stay away from the barn and Precious will stay away from the house, but they will share Angie 🙂

Ms. Cahoon has cooked up quite a mystery. The victim had secrets and was kinda skeezy. Women seemed to fall all over him and he played that for all it was worth. These meant plenty of suspects but I did find one person in my sights early and as the story continued my thoughts were affirmed.

The subplots blended well with the mystery. I was cheering one of the characters on all the way as she came to a great realization.

I also enjoyed all the food discussed and the humor interspersed throughout the story.

One Potato, Two Potato, Dead is an entertaining story filled with interesting and likable characters. The entire series is a must-read for culinary cozy lovers.

Angie Turner lives on a small farm with Mabel (a hen), Precious (a goat) and Dom her St. Bernard puppy who is growing fast. She also is part owner/chef at restaurant The County Seat with her best friend, Felicia. Angie loves to cook and Felicia loves to talk so Angie handles the kitchen and Felicia takes care of the customers. Felicia is dating a man who runs a homeless shelter/soup kitchen, so the staff at the County Seat volunteer to cook one evening. Along with the staff of Estebe (asst. chef), Hope (dishwasher), and Ian, Angie's boyfriend, Professor Daniel Monet, one of Hope's instructor's at the local college joins in at the shelter. Afterward, Hope offers a ride to the Professor and that's how trouble starts. The Professor is found dead the following day and Hope is a suspect. Angie and the rest of Hope's "family" from the County Seat set out to find out what happened and clear Hope.

I really didn't like this story that much. It seem a little to pat that there were connections of this new professor with Angie's boyfriend and unusual how the people were all supposed to be connected.

Love the background and the regular characters.

Another brilliant book by Lynn Cahoon, I never thought you could improve on perfection but somehow she has done it!

Felicia's current boyfriend runs a mission and once a month a local restaurant will come and cook for it, this time it is the turn of The County Seat and Angie is prepared to cook for 250 people on her own, but then her whole kitchen team and her boyfriend Ian turn up to help! Felicia is there as well, and then Hope's professor arrives, which startles Ian as he seems to know Daniel Monet by a different name, and nationality. Angie doesn't think any more of it until Daniel is found dead and Hope's fingerprints are at the crime scene.

No one at The County Seat can believe that Hope, their dishwasher/gofer/chef in training has anything to do with this, other than being young and naive, oh and in the wrong place at the wrong time, so Angie and Felicia start snooping to find out the truth.

I enjoyed my trip to Idaho while reading this book. The County Seat is a restaurant that I'd love to be able to try. The characters are growing nicely and I like the way the relationships are progressing. The mystery was well-written and kept me up late into the night to finish this one..

This is a nice, relaxing book. There's enough action to keep you interested and the mystery isn't so easy to solve that there's no point in reading the book. There's also enough about food in the book that you are sort of excited when you have to stop reading to fix dinner.

One Potato, Two Potato, Dead is a light summer read for mystery fans. This book has a clever plot and will keep you in suspense until the very end. Lynn Cahoon delivers again. Thank you to Net Galley for letting me read an advanced readers copy of this book.

The third book in the Farm to Fork Mystery series by Lynn Cahoon is One Potato, Two Potato, Dead. While helping at a local mission, Angie meets her employee Hope's professor, Daniel. The next day Daniel is found dead shortly after Hope gave him a ride home. To further confuse matters, Angie's boyfriend abruptly leaves the country with no warning or contact. I normally love Ms Cahoon's books and this series, but this particular book fell flat. Angie comes off as annoying - whiny, selfish, and just generally unlikeable. The story was full of filler material with very little action.

Princess Fuzzypants here: The folks who work at The County Seat, Angie’s restaurant, are family. Not only have they bonded as a work team but they are there for each other whenever any one of them is in trouble. It appears one of them, Hope, is in the crosshairs for the murder of a visiting culinary prof. Not only is this fellow a sleazy womanizer, he is not what he pretends to be. In fact, Angie’s English boyfriend is convinced he is someone from his past who was shady even as a kid.
There are lots of moving parts both current and past that keep things from being too obvious. There is just enough romantic entanglements. It seems several of the characters are in relationships where one party is not treating the other with proper respect. It’s interesting to see how the various characters deal with this in their own unique ways. Charity is a two way street and I particularly like they way it was handled.
Four purrs and two paws up.

Title: One Potato, Two Potato Dead

Author: Lynn Cahoon

Series: Farm to Fork Mystery book 3

Pages: 237

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Rating: 4 stars

Restaurant owner Angie Turner finds herself investigating another murder in the third installment of the Farm to Fork mystery series in One Potato, Two Potato, Dead by Lynn Cahoon in which another one of her employees is a suspect.

Angie will have to find the real killer and run her restaurant without becoming the killer’s next target.

While this series is a culinary cozy it focuses on bringing farm fresh food to the customers of her restaurant trying to plan meals based on what’s in season. The recipes included at the end is also a nice touch.

I would recommend this one to fans of culinary cozies as well as animal cozies. I also suggest reading the books in series order.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

Lynn Cahoon is one of my favorite cozy authors and though this isn’t my favorite by her I am still enjoying it a lot!

Angie Turner’s restaurant The County Seat is doing really good and they have started taking on a few more events. They use farm to fresh ingredients. Angie and her chef in training help at a local mission where they meet Daniel who is one of Hope’s teachers. It seems that Angie’s boyfriend knows him as someone else but can’t place where he knows him. It prompts him to take a trip back home to figure things out.

Meanwhile, Daniel is killed and Hope might have been the last one to see him alive leaving her the suspect so, Angie has to put on her sleuthing hat and figure out who might have wanted him dead. It turns out there could have a few others that might want him dead since he was having an affair with married woman and then he was known to be kind of a ladies man especially with his students. She knows her friend and employee didn’t do it so she tries her best to figure it out even if it aggravates the sheriff, who is pretty much a father figure to her boyfriend!

I really enjoyed this one probably more than I have the others in this series so maybe that means this one is finally starting to grow on my a bit. I really like Angie and her friends and employees at the County Seat. I also like Ian who is Angie’s boyfriend though I am not terrible attached to him as I should be.

I thought it had a pretty good mystery, lots of good viable suspects and I was kind of surprised at who the killer really was even when I suspected that person. Enjoyable read!

Rule #1 in a newish relationship, you do not skip town without letting your girlfriend know. Rule #2 you do not leave town, inform your Aunt and Uncle, who are not sharing information as to why with said girlfriend. Angie may have her hands full with the restaurant she and her gal pal Felicia co-own but not so much that she won't find time to help keep her protégé Hope from being the victim of a "wrong place, wrong time, with the wrong person" sort of problem. Hope's culinary school instructor seems nice enough although Angie's boyfriend Ian sure did seem to have his hackles up upon meeting him or was he merely reintroduced to someone he used to know? The same someone who ends up dead. Hope is the easy suspect because her prints are on a wine glass found in the house of the very naked instructor. The same instructor who was having an affair with a married woman and then there is the possibility that there were dangerous people looking for him. The guy has a small digital footprint and so many unanswered questions. Very good book, excellent character development and an overall great read! Looking forward to trying out the Idaho potato pie sans sausage almost as much as the next installment and antics of the zoo.

Angie starts off the book by volunteering at a soup kitchen and meeting Hope's professor, the one she has a crush on. The next morning, the sheriff comes to tell her that the man is dead.
Angie starts by trying to stay on the periphery of the investigation but ends up getting dragged into looking at Daniel who didn't seem to exist two years ago but suddenly showed up as a professor at the local university before he died. The man also seems to have romanced a number of women, some of whom are quite scary when crossed.
The series probably hasn't changed very much but there is starting to be an element of religion (very light touches) that weren't there before. I'm wondering if that was just for this book (especially since the guy running the food bank ends up not being a great fella) or if the author is heading more in that direction.

Three stars
This book came out March 19th
Follows Killer Green Tomatoes
ARC kindly provided by publisher and NetGalley
Opinions are my own

One Potato, Two Potato, Dead by Lynn Cahoon is the third installment of the cozy Farm-to-Fork Mystery series. In this series Angie Turner has moved back to her hometown in rural Idaho after her grandmother’s passing and opened up a new restaurant, the County Seat.

Angie restaurant has really taken off in the small town offering fresh ingredients straight from the surrounding farms. Angie has also gotten pretty good at solving the murders that keep turning up in the area although she keeps hoping to be done with her crime solving.

Of course things just can’t stay quiet in Angie’s small little town so when the sheriff shows up announcing another murder Angie can’t help but become involved yet again. The victim, Daniel Monet, was Angie’s assistant Hope’s teacher and when Hope becomes a suspect in murder Angie knows she needs to clear her name.

I’ve followed this series from the beginning and really enjoy the characters and the mysteries they get involved in solving. There are plenty of funny moments, a lot of cute critters and plenty of suspects to keep one guessing. Another great installment to keep me engaged in the series.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.