Showing results by author "Rosemary Shrager" in Cosy

Preparing a midwinter's feast for all hundred residents of the little Yorkshire village of Scrafton Busk is exactly the kind of challenge Prudence Bulstrode adores. A chance to show off her braised-neck of Moorland mutton, Wensleydale tart—and, of course, her famous figgy pudding—is just the thing to shake off the winter blues. But on the night of the feast, local vagabond Terry Chandler is found dead—his body entombed in the pristine snowman standing pride of place on the village green.

When an old television rival, Deirdre Shaw, is found dead at the Cotswolds manor house where she was catering for a prestigious shooting weekend, Prudence is asked to step into the breach. Prudence is only too happy to take up the position, and soon she is working in the kitchens of Farleigh Manor. But Farleigh Manor is the home to secrets, both old and new. The site of a famous unsolved murder from the 19th century, Farleigh Manor has never quite shaken off its sensationalist past. It's about to get a sensational present, too.

Prudence Bulstrode has fond memories of St Marianne's School for Girls, the beautiful Cornish school where she boarded as a girl. So when she's invited back to the school, to lead an Easter holidays course in the fundamentals of cookery, Prudence couldn't be more delighted. What's more, it's a chance to show her grand-daughter Suki the way school used to be in the good old days. But no sooner has Prudence arrived at St Marianne's, a gruesome discovery is made. The builders excavating the old hockey pitch to construct the new dormitories have unearthed human bones.

MADGLÆDE OG MORDGÅDER FORENES I EN UIMODSTÅELIG HYGGEKRIMI AF TV-KOKKEN ROSEMARY SHRAGER

Den nyligt pensionerede tv-kok Prudence Bulstrode har længe set frem til en rolig og tilbagetrukket pensionisttilværelse i det idylliske Cotswolds. Den drøm splintres dog, da hendes tidligere tv-rival, Deirdre Shaw, bliver fundet død i et rabarberbed nær Farleigh Manor, hvor jagtsæsonen står for døren. Prudence har på fornemmelsen, at der er ugler i mosen, og påtager sig derfor køkkentjansen på slottet, så hun i skjul af gryder og pander kan opklare mysteriet.

Nogle gange må man tage det sure med det søde... Og det er Prudence Bulstrode efterhånden ekspert i. Prudence Bulstrode elsker en god udfordring, og det er lige præcis, hvad den store fest for hundredvis af gæster i den lille landsby Scrafton Busk viser sig at være. Her skal der kokkereres til den store guldmedalje, og Prudence griber altid muligheden for at imponere gæsterne med sine bedste menuer. Men på den store aften bliver den lokale vagabond, Terry, fundet død under mystiske omstændigheder: Han er blevet skjult inde i den store snemand på byens torv.