Release Day News: A PARFAIT CRIME by Maya Corrigan

Congratulations to our own Maya Corrigan on the release of her 9th Five-Ingredient Mystery, A PARFAIT CRIME!

Set in a quaint Chesapeake Bay town, the latest novel in Maya Corrigan’s Five-Ingredient Mysteries brings back café manager Val Deniston and her recipe columnist grandfather – a sleuthing duo that shares a Victorian house, a love of the culinary arts, and a talent for catching killers.

At the site of a fatal blaze, Val’s boyfriend, a firefighter trainee, is shocked to learn the victim is known to him, a woman named Jane who belonged to the local Agatha Christie book club—and was rehearsing alongside Val’s grandfather for an upcoming Christie play being staged for charity. Just as shocking are the skeletal remains of a man found in the freezer. Who is he and who put him on ice?

After Val is chosen to replace Jane in the play, the cast gathers at their house to get to work—and enjoy Granddad’s five-ingredient parfaits—but all anyone can focus on is the bizarre real-life mystery. When it’s revealed that Jane’s death was due to something other than smoke inhalation, Val and Granddad try to retrace her final days. As they dig into her past life, their inquiry leads them to a fancy new spa in town—where they discover that Jane wasn’t the only one who had a skeleton in the cooler . . .

Read an excerpt and see where to buy A Parfait Crime.  

Early Reviews

5 stars - What a delight. Just like Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap,"it kept me guessing until the end. The author does an excellent job weaving modern day murder into the framework of "The Mousetrap," all without giving away its ending, either.

References to Agatha Christie were well done with no spoilers about The Mousetrap – even the part where the killer was revealed was an homage to Christie. So well done – it kept me up past my bed time as I was finishing it!