Coming home is easy and other lies
Occupation: owner/chef at The County Seat, River Vista, Idaho.
Hey guys, I’m Angie and I’ve been asked to write this post about my new farm to fork restaurant opening soon in scenic River Vista Idaho. Well, kind of scenic. River Vista used to be a farming community. The town itself is really small. One grocery store, one gas station, two bars, two restaurants (including the County Seat) and six churches.
Now, it’s a thriving bedroom community for Boise. People build big houses and raise their families away from the ‘big’ city where they work. Boise has grown over the last few years, but mostly it’s sprawled and taken over the surrounding towns.
So there’s my customer base. Urban professionals who want quality dining without driving back into town after a long day at work. Felicia, she’s my partner in the business, thinks we might also be able to start up some cooking classes for the bored stay at home moms she’s meeting in her yoga class at the church. She lives in the apartment above the restaurant.
I’m in my grandmother’s house out in what’s still mostly farmland. The river park is near by and I go hiking there a lot. I have a garden and a lone hen left over from Nona’s flock. We’ll, I guess technically, it’s my house now, since Nona passed last year. But I can still feel her presence, in a totally good way.
Oh, and I bought a dog. After living in a San Francisco apartment for over five years where we had el pescado, an upscale Mexican restaurant, I decided I wanted a pet. I was thinking small, lap dog, like a Cocker Spaniel. Instead, I fell in love with Dom. He’s a St. Bernard. Big, and getting bigger. But I love the guy.
Now, I just have to finish the prep work for opening night. We made arrangements with some of the farmers, but now I need to woo the guy who runs the Farmers market so I can live up to the promise of locally sourced food products. It’s too bad he doesn’t seem to like me, not one bit.
I’ve got to go. Time to go help Felicia making sure we’re ready with tables, chairs, dishes, the list keeps getting longer.
If you’re in town, I hope you’ll stop in and check out our food. It’s killer.
Angie.
You can read more about Angie in Who Moved My Goat Cheese, the first book in the NEW “Farm to Fork” mystery series.
Angie Turner hopes her new farm-to-table restaurant can be a fresh start in her old hometown in rural Idaho. But when a goat dairy farmer is murdered, Angie must turn the tables on a bleating black sheep . . .
With three weeks until opening night for their restaurant, the County Seat, Angie and her best friend and business partner Felicia are scrambling to line up local vendors—from the farmer’s market to the goat dairy farm of Old Man Moss. Fortunately, the cantankerous Moss takes a shine to Angie, as does his kid goat Precious. So when Angie hears the bloodcurdling news of foul play at the dairy farm, she jumps in to mind the man’s livestock and help solve the murder. One thing’s for sure, there’s no whey Angie’s going to let some killer get her goat . . .
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Giveaway: Leave a comment below for your chance to win a digital copy (Kindle or Nook) of Who Moved My Goat Cheese. The giveaway will end March 8, 2018. Good luck everyone!
About the author
Lynn Cahoon is the author of the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Tourist Trap cozy mystery series. Guidebook To Murder, book 1 of the series, won the Reader’s Crown for Mystery Fiction in 2015. She also pens the Cat Latimer series available in mass market paperback. This year, she’s releasing Who Moved My Goat Cheese in March as part of the new Farm to Fork series. She also writes romance under Lynn Collins. She lives in a small town like the ones she loves to write about with her husband and two fur babies. Sign up here for her newsletter.
Connect with at lynncahoon.com, on Goodreads, Twitter, Facebook and her Amazon author page.
All comments are welcomed.
Yes! This is one I want. Please let me win.
Thanks for stopping in Amy!
Looking forward to Lynn Cahoon’s new series!
Hi Mary, your puppy is sooo cute. 🙂
I am looking forward to reading this – but do’t need to win as I pre-ordered and it arrived on my Kindle this morning (yay!)
Thank you so much for the pre-order KnyttWytch!
I love Lynn Cahoon’s books! Thank you for this chance.
I love Lynn Cahoon and her books. You know you just want to pick up this book to see what’s inside when you see this cover and the title. Fingers
are crossed.
Thanks Robin.
What a cute cover! This sounds like a fun cozy.
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Hi Wendy! I love the cover too.
I love a mystery set in a restaurant–adding a dog or a cat just makes it that much better.
I enjoyed writing about food.
I would love to win this Lynn is one of my favorite Authors !! It’s going to be a great series
Thank you Janet!
Looking forward to reading this book, it sounds like such fun. embam1969 at comcast dot net
I hope you enjoy!
Can’t wait to read this new series.
Enjoy Doward!
Love the cover.
Thanks Cheryl!
Sounds like a great start to a new series by Lynn Cahoon. Looking forward to reading.
Thank you Dianne.
How can I resist a book that has goat in the title and a goat on the cover? After reading a day in the life of Angie Turner, I’m certain that I will love this series!
A St. Bernard is definitely not a lap dog. Can’t wait to meet Dom (& Angie & Felicia)!
I love the cover on this book! Thanks for the chance.
Looking forward to reading this new series. Thank you for the chance to win.
Sounds like it will be a fun book to read. Thanks for the opportunity to enter this giveaway.l
Lynn, you are a new to me author and I would love to read this book; love animals in stories
Oooohhhh! Can’t wait to read this first book in a new series. I always think of reading a new series as a chance to make some new friends…and you can never have too many friends! !
This sounds really good–I’d love to read it! legallyblonde1961@yahoo.com
**** WINNER ****
Who Moved My Goat Cheese is Peggy Hyndman
Congratulations!