I received a free copy of ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO, DEAD (A Farm-to-Fork Mystery, Book 3) by Lynn Cahoon, through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. Angie Turner’s restaurant, The County Seat, is doing better than expected, so she, her boyfriend Ian, and her staff share some of their good fortune by cooking a meal at a local mission. There, they meet Daniel Monet, who is a new culinary professor at the college and who is also a shameless lothario romancing every married woman, female student, staff, and faculty member he encounters. Ian recognizes the man as “Arnie” from his childhood, but Daniel denies being Arnie. Things go awry when Daniel is murdered that very night, and The County Seat’s sous-chef Hope becomes a primary suspect. Ian mysteriously disappears without notice, but, strangely, law enforcement never considers Ian a suspect in the murder. Can Angie get Hope out of the hot seat?

I enjoyed this book. I like Angie and crew. However, as hinted above, I did think that Ian’s bizarre and inconsiderate behavior was shrugged off a little too quickly. I enjoy Lynn Cahoon’s other series. I recommend this book to those who enjoyed the first two books in the Farm-to-Fork series, to fans of Lynn Cahoon’s books, and to those who like restaurant themed mysteries.

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Synopsis:

Angie Turner’s restaurant, The County Seat, is conveniently located near a first-class farmers market—so her menu is full of fresh ingredients. But a visiting culinary professor has just had a taste of something very unhealthy . . .

Angie first meets Daniel Monet at a local mission, where she and her chef-in-training, Hope, are serving barbeque chicken poutine to the homeless. Monet is one of Hope’s teachers—but Angie’s boyfriend knows him from his youthful days in England, and he went by a different name back then. After Sheriff Brown shows up the next morning to report that the pseudo-French gourmet has been dead on top of a pool table, the victim of poisoned wine, it seems his real name might not have been the only secret he was hiding. The bon vivant is no longer vivant, and with Hope’s prints on the glass, it’ll be Angie who has to sauce out the real killer . . .

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.” (Goodreads)


Review:

The characters are well rounded and well developed. I really like the fact that all of the employees at The County Seat care for each other so much, acting more like family than coworkers. It is no wonder that Angie decides to find the killer before Hope gets sent to prison. The secondary characters added a lot to the book and I liked the hint of a new relationship in the works. And of course, the animals were adorable.

The author is very talented in her descriptive writing and I felt like I was sitting in The County Seat, eating a delicious meal and listening to the town gossip. The writing style flows smoothly and the book is a quick easy read.

The mystery was well plotted and carried on well throughout the entire book. There were enough clues to gather and suspects to consider and the mystery was not an easy one to solve.

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a well crafted cozy mystery. You cannot go wrong reading anything from this author.

I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book provided by the publisher, Kensington Books, and NetGalley, which I greatly appreciate.

One Potato, Two Potato, Dead: A Farm-to-Fork Mystery
By Lynn Cahoon
Lyrical
March 2019

Review by Cynthia Chow

As the chilly fall season settles onto River Vista, Idaho, County Seat restaurant owner Angie Turner looks forward to cooking with the new farmers’ market bounty of freshly grown produce. In fact, testing a variety of potato poutine recipes why she almost forgets that she’s committed to volunteering at the local homeless mission. Doing good for her community is actually secondary to Angie’s main objective, which is checking out the man who is running the mission and dating Felicia, her best friend and restaurant partner. Angie can’t help but distrust the intentions of trust fund baby Taylor Simpson, although it’s another volunteer who truly sets off all of her alarms. Professor Daniel Monet seems to have too cozy a relationship with his student Hope Anderson, and Angie is more than a little protective of her dishwasher and aspiring young chef. Indeed, when Daniel is murdered that night and Hope’s fingerprints are found on a wineglass in his home, she becomes the primary suspect and the target of gossip linking her to his proclivity of affairs with attractive students.

There’s no question that Angie’s going to allow Hope to be railroaded into prison, even is the sheriff happens to be the uncle of the man she’s dating. Angie’s not feeling too enamored of Ian McNeal at the moment anyway, as her boyfriend failed to notify her that he was abruptly returning home to England with a mission of his own. That means that Angie’s on her own as she rather brashly interrogates the late professor’s coworkers and investigates the mystery behind of a man without a past and who didn’t seem to exist before coming to teach at Boise.

What becomes so apparent in this series is how closely Angie connects food to love and family. Her fondest memories are associated with family meals, and she loves nothing more than replicating that within her beloved County Seat restaurant. Her staff has truly become her family, which is why Angie may act a little too recklessly when she feels they are being threatened. The romantic relationships of the characters come under focus when Angie and her friends are forced to evaluate what constitutes a healthy and equal partnership, but mostly it all comes down to priorities and open communication. Angie’s newfound love of poutine is made tantalizing even for readers who never may have realized such a dish even existed, and she experiments with creative ways to top this Canadian dish of potatoes and cheese. The mystery swerves into an unexpected direction as Ian brings home new information, and Angie never hesitates to follow up on these clues. Her ever-growing St. Bernard puppy Dom continues to battle with Precious the goat, making Angie’s domestic situation as unique as one could expect. Romance, comfort farm-to-fork cooking, and strong bonds of friendship continue to make this an entertaining and fun mystery series.

One Potato, Two Potato, Dead by Lynn Cahoon is book 3 in the Farm to Fork Mystery series. This is a great series and just keeps getting better. It can be read as a stand alone but, you will want to read the series.
There is a great story line with a couple mysteries through out the story. There are plenty of twists and turns that will have you wondering until the end with some humor, loyalty and friendship.
It is a clean and easy to read cozy with a recipe included.
I was given an ARC via Netgalley and Kensington Books.

One Potato, Two Potato, Dead by Lynn Cahoon is the third A Farm-to-Fork Mystery. Angie Turner, Ian McNeal and the staff from The County Seat are volunteering at a local homeless mission where they will cook and serve dinner. It gives Angie an opportunity to check out Felicia’s new boyfriend, Taylor Simpson who runs the mission. They are surprised when Professor Daniel Monet arrives to volunteer. He is a visiting professor from Canada this semester and it is obvious to all of them that Hope Anderson, training to be a chef, is smitten. There is an odd tension between Ian and Daniel all evening. At one point, Ian calls Daniel by a different name. The next morning, Sheriff Allen Brown is on Angie’s doorstep with the news that Daniel has been murdered and Hope has been taken in for questioning. Hope drove Daniel home the previous night and her fingerprints were found on a wine glass near the body. Angie calls Ian only to find that he left town that morning for England. Angie is not going to allow innocent Hope to remain on the suspect list. She decides to nose around campus and do a little online sleuthing. Angie soon learns that Professor Monet was quite the ladies’ man, but his culinary talents left something to be desired. What secrets were Daniel Monet hiding? Can Angie figure them out before the killer comes after her?

One Potato, Two Potato, Dead is light, relaxing story with a smidgen of mystery tossed in. If you have not read the previous A Farm-to-Fork Mystery novels, you will not be lost. The author provides the necessary information for new readers. Angie Turner is not herself in this story. She is moody, short-tempered and negative (it is off-putting). Angie has her farm with Mabel (the hen), Precious (the goat) and Dom (St. Bernard). I am particularly fond of Dom (though I could do without the endless walks Angie and Dom take). She co-owns The county Seat with her best friend, Felicia. While Angie is a whiz in the kitchen, she leaves the front of the house to Felicia. There are a variety of characters that include Estebe Blackstone (chef at the restaurant), Hope (dishwasher, college student training to be a chef), Bar Travis (owner/bartender of the Red Eye), Ian McNeal (the boyfriend) and Sheriff Allen Brown (who loves Angie’s baked goods). Felicia is dating Taylor Simpson who runs the local homeless mission and Angie wants to check him out to see if he is suitable for her friend. I will say that Taylor is dedicated to the mission. Hope is infatuated with Professor Daniel Monet, a visiting professor and chef from Canada. When Daniel turns up dead the morning after Hope gives him a ride home, she is at the top of Sheriff Brown’s suspect list. It does not help that her fingerprints are on a wine glass near the body. There is little investigation into the murder. When Angie tries to give Sheriff Brown information, he tells her to keep her nose out of the investigation (which she cannot do). It is not apparent that the sheriff is investigating (it is not mentioned). There needed to be proactive investigating by Angie and Sheriff Brown. Angie feels Hope is young, innocent and naïve and wants to protect her. There is a lack of suspects, and, when the killer is finally introduced, it is obvious that this person is the guilty party. Most of the novel comprises Angie doing day-to-day activities like feeding her animals (twice a day), walking Dom, cooking, working on her cookbook, chatting with friends, eating, driving, working at the restaurant, getting ready for the day, and wondering why Ian took off without talking to her (he left for England the day after the murder). There were a couple of mentions that Angie’s neighbors are out of town. I kept expecting that to play into the story (like the killer using their house as a hideout), but it never did (then why was it mentioned more than once). The books pacing is mild (it lacked action). This is not my favorite book by Lynn Cahoon. It needed more substance. One Potato, Two Potato, Dead is a charming story with adorable animals, delicious food, good friends, helping hands and an irksome homicide that needs to be deciphered.

One Potato, Two Potato, Dead by Lynn Cahoon is a pleasant cozy mystery featuring Angie Turner, who is part owner and chef at a startup restaurant in a small town in Idaho. Open only Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings, the County Seat (Aangie and Felicia's restaurant_ struggles to offer enough hours to its employees and so relies heavily on part-timers. Hope is one of those part-timers, going to college full time, hopefully to realize her goal of becoming a chef. One of the things the crew does is volunteers together and this night they are cooking at a homeless shelter that serves 250 an evening. Felicia's boyfriend, Taylor, runs the shelter, so she set up the volunteer service. While they are eating, a professor of Hope's, Daniel Monet shows up to help. Ian (Angie's boyfriend) seems to recognize him, but not as Daniel. The evening goes well and Hope volunteers to drive Daniel home as he walked to the shelter. The next morning the local sheriff pays Angie a visit to relay the information that Daniel has been murdered and the police are talking to Hope. This sets off a flurry of odd coincidences for all the characters involved, eventually leading up to the arrest of the actual murderer.

Cahoon has a spectacular cast of characters for this mystery. It is the third book in the series so most of the character development that continues in this edition was begun earlier. It is an interesting plot with the murderer spotted fairly early on but with much explanation to come. It is a good mystery with just enough left turns to make it interesting. As in all cozies, there are animals. In this case, a St. Bernard puppy, a goat, and a chicken. There is also the requisite boyfriend, who in this case was raised in England but has settled in Idaho and runs the farmer's market. I found this to be excellent light reading. The characters and plot were good. The setting is interesting, and the introduction of new characters went smoothly. I recommend it.

I received a free ARC of One Potato, Two Potato, Dead in exchange for a fair and honest review. #netgalley #onepotatotwopotatodead #kensingtonbooks

The story moved quite slow at first, but it did get interesting towards the end. For me, a good mystery must be engaging and leave the reader curious until the end. This book did deliver that to some extent- but as I mentioned earlier it was quite slow in the beginning.

The story itself was well written and I am eager to catch up with the last two instalments to the series.

One of the things that I really enjoyed about this book are the characters. All the characters were well written and believable, and I found myself wishing to read more about them. I cannot wait for what’s in store after this book and I will definitely be watching out for the next book.

The recipe at the end was the cherry on top! I might be willing to try it out sometime in the future. It sounds delicious

3.5 stars

Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Books for providing me with an advanced reader’s copy of 'One Potato, Two Potato, Dead'

Review will be posted on my blog (linked) on or before March 30 2019

This is the third book in the delightful "Farm to Fork Mystery Series by Lynn Cahoon. I have read and recommend the entire series. This was a perfect addition to the series and a enjoyable read . I love the rural setting of River Vista Idaho and how the community is friendly and kind. Food is paramount to the community and socializing is mainly done around food events which is fun and enjoyable to read about. The author has written small town America to perfection including gossiping and backstabbing as well as a sense of community.
Chef Angie Turner's restaurant, The County Seat, is running well with a staff that is like her second family. They eat together and care about each other's well being. She loves her life and wants to give to others less fortunate. Angie decides they will have a work day away to go prepare food for a homeless center near Boise.
Angie's best friend and business partner, Felicia is dating the mission director, Taylor. She arranges the day for Angie and the staff. When one of her employees and friends is accused of murder after the event Angie hopes to find the real killer and begins to investigate.
The sleuth is very well crafted and kept me guessing. Angie is a likable protagonist who carries a investigation while balancing her business well. The supporting charcters are all fun to read of and add to the story in each book with depth and humor. This series has such a warm welcoming feel to it with the depiction of the perfect small town community. I loved this next in series and look forward to the next book.
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I received a complimentary ARC from Kensington Books through Net Galley. The opinion is my own. ,

Lynn Cahoon's Farm-to-Fork Mystery series has been a winner from the first book. Its greatest strength is one that it shares with her awesome Tourist Trap books and that is an amazing community of characters. The staff at The County Seat are melding in to a loving family and that makes the book for me. I love that Ms. Cahoon gives us time in the restaurant with the gang and away from it with Angie. Those, what I call every-day scenes, are part of what makes the book feel real, so real that I am craving donuts!
In One Potato, Two Potato, Dead, one of the staff becomes a person of interest in the murder of man to whom she had a connection, so Angie feels compelled to investigate and everyone steps up to help the accused. The search for the killer leads to an even more complex investigation into the victim which draws deadly attention. I suspect one of these days she will admit that she is intrigue by real life puzzles and can’t stay out of police business but some of her efforts pay off for the sheriff so that revelation may be a long time coming.
I received an ARC of One Potato, Two Potato, Dead via NetGalley. I loved the book and will be sharing my pleasure with friends and followers. #NetGalley #OnePotatoTwoPotatoDead

Loved this book. The more I read by Lynn Cahoon, the more I enjoy her writing. I do wish I could cook like the characters in this story. The Idaho Potato Pie recipe that is included sounds really good. I may even make it. I do love my potatoes! I love the fact that they work together as a family and take care of each other probably better than some families do. This story had an interesting twist in it and you may be wondering about scenarios before it all comes out. Some of the folks may surprise you before it’s all said and done. I can’t wait to read more about Angie, Ian and crew. I received this book from NetGalley, but my opinion is my own.

Another Cozy Cooking Murder in Idaho
This is the latest episode of the Farm to Fork Restaurant cozy mystery series. This series has some great cooking, rural living and murder: all told in a cozy manner. The plot is wonderfully done with great interpersonal relationships, college student drama, and pets needing attention. While this is the first of the series that I have read, this episode makes me want to read the others. The book stands alone well, but it makes the other stories sound neat. I received this book for free and this is my honest review.

Lynn Cahoon has written another great addition to the Farm-to-Fork Mystery series set in River Vista, Idaho. Chef Angie Turner's restaurant, The County Seat, is running smoothly. The staff is really like a family that eats together before each meal that they serve and really care about each other. They even have a work day away from the restaurant when they go prepare a meal for a homeless mission center in nearby Boise. Angie's best friend and business partner, Felicia, gets them signed up to serve the meal because she is dating the mission director, Taylor. College student and chef in training Hope sees one of her culinary professors from the college at the dinner and it is obvious that she has a crush on him. Angie's boyfriend, Ian, recognizes him as someone he used to know back in England. When he needs a ride home, Hope gives the professor a ride but it was a mistake. The next day he is found dead in his house along with a wine glass with Hope's fingerprints on it. The whole County Seat family surround Hope with concern. Chef Estebe calls in his cousin who is an attorney to represent Hope and Angie sets out to find the real killer. Ian mysteriously disappears to England for a while but when he is back, his Aunt Maggie and Uncle Allen Brown (better known to Angie as Sheriff Brown) want Angie to attend the family Sunday dinner after church. Angie is afraid to "meet the family."
Expect a warm welcome to the County Seat family and River Vista with lots of caring friends, great food, local gossip, adventure and danger along with a mystery for Angie to solve.
I received a complimentary ARC from Lyrical Underground and Kensington Books through NetGalley. The thoughts and opinions expressed are mine only.

Protagonist, Angie Turner finds herself invested in solving a murder when one of her trusted employees is considered a suspect. In addition, her boyfriend seemed to know the victim as someone else and he unexpectedly took off to another country right after the murder.

When reading this story it just felt comfortable. The setting is a small town in southwestern Idaho where Angie is a partner and head chef of a farm-to-fork restaurant. The characters are likeable and looked out for each other like family with a few notable exceptions. I look forward to further character development in future books in this series.

Thanks to NetGalley and Kensington books for an ARC of this story. The opinions expressed are my own.

The third installment in the "Farm to Fork" series, and I love how Angie's character and world are developing. (While these books work well enough on their own, this is a series I would recommend reading from the beginning to get the full flavor of the characters and their stories.)

The strength in all of author Cahoon's cozy series are her characters (including Precious, and Dom the Saint Bernard). Each story reveals a little more about both Angie and the characters in her life, and this was no different. Angie's sweet employee Hope is looking like a suspect in the murder of a local culinary arts professor while her boyfriend Ian disappears to England without so much as an explanation. Of course, Angie needs to poke around a bit, and the Sheriff is not happy with her.

This one left me scratching my head at times as Angie makes a decision that could well hamper the investigation in a big way, Ian's disappearance without any word to Angie feels out of character, and the murder was wrapped up too quickly for my liking. However, it was an easy, entertaining read that did tie up neatly in the end, and the best bit was the growth in all the characters.

I'm a huge fan of all of Cahoon's cozy mysteries series and I will be looking forward to the next book in the Farm to Fork series!

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO, DEAD is the third book in the Farm-to-Fork Mystery series by Lynn Cahoon. This cozy is set in rural Idaho which introduces the reader to country living. The protagonist, Angie Turner, lives in her grandmother’s old house and is raising a goat named Precious, a chicken named Mabel, and a Saint Bernard named Dom. The author provides great characters to support Angie and I loved the way she’s given the animals their own personalities too. I especially love Dom and his antics. Angie and her best friend, Felicia, own and run a farm-to-fork restaurant. I admire the way they treat all of the employees like family. As the author states in her book “Bonds made over food seemed to be stronger and longer lasting. Food was the great connector.” And this statement is clearly evident in the relationships Angie has forged with her team over the three books in this series.

When one of their young employees becomes entangled in a murder, Angie steps in to “ask questions” in order to help with the investigation. Her boyfriend’s uncle is the law enforcement in town, and despite him not wanting her to be involved, she manages to find information and help his investigation along. There’s a subplot involving Angie’s boyfriend and his past that is revealed and I like how the author has moved their relationship along at a slow, steady pace. The final climax had an exciting element but felt rushed in the end. Once the reveal is made known, the author wraps up all the threads of the story into one cohesive strand. This is an entertaining read that features the theme of family, friends, and food and I look forward to reading more in this series.

There are lots of yummy mentions of food and the author kindly provides a potato recipe at the back of the book.

Angie Turner, and her best friend Felicia, are making their farm-to-fork restaurant, The County Seat a success, in the small town of River Vista, near Boise. Felicia’s new boyfriend is running a Mission for the homeless and the employees of County Seat are volunteering to serve dinner that night. Hope, one of their employees takes culinary classes during the day and works with Angie the nights the restaurant is open. While serving the homeless, Hope’s professor, Daniel Monet, who she certainly has a crush on shows up to help as well. Unfortunately, for the professor, Ian seems to recognize Daniel Monet as some one from his past. The professor insists that Ian is mistaken. At the end of the night, the professor needs a ride home and Hope volunteers. By morning, the professor is dead and Hope’s fingerprints are on a wine glass making her the prime murder suspect!

Another engaging mystery from Ms. Cahoon. I have appreciated the farm-to-fork series and learning different about different recipes. The only thing I could add is more recipes please! As she describes the food served in the restaurant, I wish there was a County Seat near me! I admire Angie for not only her cooking skills, and also her sleuthing skills. Once again, she leaves no stone unturned. There were quite a few suspects, yet only one killer!

I received this book from Kensington Publishers through NetGalley for an honest review.

Another really good installment in the "Farm-to-Fork" mystery series by Lynn Cahoon; I have enjoyed how each book has developed the characters and finally I feel like we have a cohesive group of characters that work together well and are fun to read about. Angie and Felicia are two great characters and I hope that in future books we get to see a bit more of Felicia's life as well as Angie's.

The mystery was pretty good in this one - it took me awhile to guess who the killer was [and I did, but it was really only a guess at the beginning] but the why took until the reveal, which, in my opinion, was rather anticlimactic. After all the hubbub and running around, I think the ending fell just a bit flat. If the ending and reveal had been just a touch better, I might have been able to give this five stars.

I am really enjoying this series and am looking forward to the next one in the series!

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Angie's working for charity- feeding the homeless- when Daniel Monet turns up to serve as well. He's a mentor for Hope, Angie's employee at the County Seat, but he's also someone Angie's boyfriend Ian knows from back in the UK. Then he turns up dead as a result of poison wine and Hope is a suspect. But what about Ian? Cue the investigation! This is a fun cozy series in a unique setting and with good characters. Ian's surrogate uncle is the Sheriff and while he doesn't want Angie poking around, he can't stop her. Sheriff Brown is stern but he's got a good heart. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. This has some nice twists and it's a good read.

One Potato, Two Potato, Dead by Lynn Cahoon is the 3rd book in the Farm to Fork Mystery series, and another great addition to the series. Once I started this book I could not stop reading it. It was a quick read that kept me guessing. I look forward to the next book in the series. I recommend this book for all cozy mystery book lovers, you will not be disappointed.

I reviewed a digital arc provided by NetGalley and Kensington Publishing. Thank you.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read this book!

First off, yet again I haven't read the rest of the series, but they are in my to-read list. I did enjoy this one, but felt like there were a few points where maybe having more background I would have understood things better, such as the neighbours being out of town, and why the main character is in a relationship with Ian, who seems like a selfish and rather unlikable love interest. Maybe I wouldn't think that if I had more to go on, but in this book I simply see no appeal.

The mystery was good, but the whole thing wrapped in only a few pages and I needed a little more explanation especailly as the murderer was only on screen a handful of times. I really did love the 'family' work mates though, as well as the random goat and chicken. I think this a series that I need to go back and learn more about though.

A good cozy, well written except perhaps the ending. Four stars.