This is a super fun novella in the Angie Turner/ Farm to Fork series by Lynn Cahoon.

While catering a New Year’s event at a secluded cabin, after a guest is stabbed, Angie and her staff must find the killer.

If you love the series, Lynn’s books, or cozy mysteries, this is a great, fast read.

Many thanks to Kensington Books and NetGally for providing me with a digital ARC.

Have a Deadly New Year is #3.5 in the Farm to Fork series by Lynn Cahoon. It is a novella set around the New Year holiday. Angie Turner and her crew from The County Seat restaurant are hired to cater a dinner for a rock band and then they plan to spend the week planning for the next business year. Things go awry when one of the band members is found in the dining room with a drumstick through his chest.

The writing was solid, it is the first book of this series that I have read, but I was not lost with the characters and their relationships. It is a fun fill in for those waiting for the next to be published or for those that just want a holiday themed book. Thank you #NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to read #HaveaDeadlyNewYear.

This new Farm-To-Fork novella is an exciting read. I love the comraderie of Angie Turner’s County Seat restaurant’s staff—What a great group of people to work with and to have your back in any type of crisis.

Catering an event for an old school friend of Felicia’s (Angie’s partner) on New Year’s in a private, secluded cabin; the County Seat gang is horrified when one of the guests is stabbed! Then, everyone realizes that they’re trapped in the cabin with a killer. Sticking together, Angie and her trusted crew make short work out of identifying the murderer amongst them. Great short story!

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I received this ARC via Netgalley and Kensington Books, in return for an honest review. This is a novella (around 80 pages) in the Farm to Fork cosy mystery series. While not the first story in the series, it is easily read as a stand-alone. Angie is the co-owner of the Country Seat Restaurant, with her friend, Felicia. Felicia’s old friend, Cliff, asks them to cater a dinner at his resort house for the members of his band. After the band leaves, then Angie, Felicia and their restaurant staff get the mansion for the rest of the week to work on their plans for the next year. The famous band is reuniting after a long break but tensions are still high between the members. The dinner is spoiled by immature behaviors. Angie is appalled to find a band member seriously injured the next morning in the dining room. The sheriff and medics arrive to take him to the hospital. However, the sheriff is called away to search for a missing child. While most of the party left the previous night, the six remaining members become housebound because of a winter blizzard. When someone goes missing, Angie enlists Felicia and their team to figure out what’s happening, by whom. This was a quick, easy read, with clear characters

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This was a quick fun novella!

Angie and crew are set to cater for a rock band that is attempting to reunite. Unfortunately, one member ends up impaled with a drumstick and another of the group ends up missing.

I really enjoyed it!

What is supposed to be a quick job then a fun team building vacation turns deadly for this crew. Murder, kidnapping, and food makes you want to curl up and do nothing but read this book from beginning to end.

Chef and restaurateur Angie Turner has taken her employees to a famous musician's house to cook a few meals for the band but then to have the house for their own use. She has planned a retreat to develop new recipes for the County Seat Restaurant. One person is found dead and then another disappears. With access to the house cut off by snow storms, are she and her friends trapped with a killer?

This is a Farm-to-Fork novella. As such, it can be read as a stand-alone, but I think a little more backstory is needed. It was a cozy setting and a well-developed mystery. However, I didn't get a feel for the characters nor a feeling for Angie's voice. Perhaps that's just because it is a novella.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book!

I love this series and am always excited to read a new book by the talented Lynn Cahoon.
Cooking for a private event is just the way to spend the new year, and chef Angie is more than excited to have this job.
Unfortunately, things aren't always what they seem, and when a tragic murder takes place, it's all hands on deck to unravel the answers.

What could be better than ending the year with an exclusive catering gig and starting the new year off in a gorgeous mountain home in Sun Valley? Well, maybe not finding one of the guests dead at the dinner table, but that's the way the soufflé falls when you work with the County Seat gang! Once again they are on the hunt for the killer, but this time it is imperative that they find the killer quickly since they are most likely sleeping in the same house as they are all snowed in together. This series is a must read! Excellent characters that are well developed make you feel like you are visiting old friends rather than reading a story, you are living through it with them! I do recommend that you read the entire series as that will help you enjoy the stories more and get to know the characters more fully. I will warn you that you may find that you are hungry for the food as the descriptions of the events are not the only thing the author brings to life for you. If only the County Seat were a real restaurant, I'd definitely be making reservations!

Have A Deadly New Year is a short (88 page) book by Lynn Cahoon. It is part of the Farm to Fork series. Angie and her crew are spending a week over New Year’s Eve in Sun Valley. After they cater a dinner for a rock band, they will have the home to themselves. But a murder in the house and a snow storm make prisoners of Angie, her crew and the band. This is a good, quick read. I enjoy Lynn Cahoon books and am always excited to find one I haven’t read. I have never been disappointed.

This is a novella in the Farm to Fork series and it was awesome! Angie and Felicia own County Seat Restaurant. There is a famous band in town and one of the members, Cliff, is friends with Felicia. Cliff asked them to provide meals while they are in town and they can use his resort cabin for the rest of the week. There is some drama with the band members and then one of them is injured and dies. This book (and the series) has everything I like about cozy mysteries - likable characters, an intriguing cozy mystery, and friendship. This was a quick read but very enjoyable!

I have not read the previous books, but this was a nice quick taste of the series.
A solid cozy with an interesting whodunit.
I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book.

I've read every Lynn Cahoon novella and this was my favorite yet! I find you're often left wanting more when reading these mini mysteries, but having Angie and her County Seat crew trapped in a mansion, in a blizzard, with only 6 guests as suspects to a shocking death ,helped to keep the story, tight and captivating. The suspense builds as the hours passed trapped in the home with drunken rock stars, drugged up girlfriends, slimy managers who are unpredictable and self absorbed. Will Angie and her team be able to survive their demands and the danger? Can the police get back through the storm in time to figure out who the killer is before their entire new year's retreat is ruined or worse someone else ends up a victim? A quick, fast paced and fun mystery and possibly one of my favorite of the farm to table series so far. Loved it.

Now that I am used to the cadence of Lynn Cahoon's shorter offerings I can abandon myself to pure enjoyment of them. 'Have a Deadly New Year' is a novella in the author's Farm-to-Fork series and follows Angie and her crew to Sun Valley as they put on a pre-New Year's Eve event for a high school friend of Felicia which ends in a murder. There is a lovely balance between the devotion and commitment of the The Country Seat restaurant friends and the group for which they are catering a meal who have loose morals and unsavory personalities and life choices. That the book is brief is a help to ending with a positive feeling and an appreciation for a winter visit to Idaho.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.

Have a Deadly New Year is the 4th book in the Farm-to-Fork Mystery series by Lynn Cahoon. It is more of a long short story or a novella, and it might not be the actual 4th book since it's intended to be a fun caper around the holidays this year before the next full-length mystery comes out in early 2020. I am psyched given Lynn Cahoon published the title of the upcoming release just this week! But let's focus on this one first...

The series takes place in Idaho. Angie runs a new restaurant that has taken off in the last year. She's shut down the place for the week between Christmas and New Years for a few parties and events that will bring in more income. One includes catering an event for her bestie's former college friends, who are in a rock band. During the event, one of the band members is bludgeoned to death. There are 4 to 5 suspects, and everything moves quickly since it's a short novella. In the end, the culprit confesses before Angie has a chance to decide whom she thinks is guilty.

When I first read the story, I hadn't realized it was intended to be an in-between novella... once I realized that, I was much happier with the product. As always, it's written well and full of great characters, dialog, and humor. I didn't expect the big reveal to happen as it did, and while it was a good one, I thought it was a little too quick and didn't pack as much of a punch as it could've. Still, the characters are incredibly well developed for less than a thousand Kindle lines (~75 pages). I loved visiting some of the restaurant's cooking staff, as their relationships are one of the best parts of this series.

It's served its purpose well... I can't wait to read the full-length novella coming out in 2020. Thanks for the opportunity to visit the characters again for a mini-mystery.

I adore this series! Lynn Cahoon writes fantastic cozies and I am constantly hoping for the next one to be released. While I wish this was a full length novel (I needed more Angie in my life) I still enjoyed this one to pieces and found it to be a wonderful addition to the series!

This is the first book I've read in this series. I enjoyed this just as much as the series I usually read -Tourist Trap Mysteries. While I didn't feel lost reading this, I would like to get more of the background on the characters. They mystery kept me guessing and I did like the main characters.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for my eARC in exchange for an honest review. I'll be looking for others in this series.

This is a delightful, fast-paced mystery filled with good friends, a beautiful setting and delicious food. Angie and her crew from The County Seat restaurant have taken a catering job at the home of Angie's partner Felicia's old high school friend, Cliff, who became a rock star with the band Postal Mutiny. The dinner is supposed to be a send off before they begin a new tour after having broken up several years before. But that night Dane, one of the band mates, is killed. Before the sheriff can investigate they are snowed in together - restaurant staff and suspects- and when another one of the guests - Cliff's girlfriend Bailey - is abducted, Angie gathers the suspects together to find who was committing the crimes. I was hooked on this book from the beginning - it's a great read.

A Country Kitchen heads to the ski lodge to cater a private party and end up with an injured victim and a missing child, what will happen next in this New Year's themed mystery.that's quick and fun. Always a good time with this crew.

The County Line crew is catering a private party for a Rock Band. While Felicia grew up with the rocker who owns the house, Angie can’t bring herself to trust him or anyone in the party when another member of the band is murdered.

A short novella to tide me over until the next entry in the series. Always welcome when you’re stalking the author’s page to see when the next full length book is going to be released. Love all of Lynn Cahoon’s series, she is a talented writer.