I am so excited to share with you the cover for the first book in the new “Ice Cream Parlor” mystery series from Penguin Random House, coming May 2020.
Book Synopsis
This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop—with a fabulous cast of quirky characters.
Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family’s ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she’s going back to basics. Win is renovating Crewse Creamery to restore its former glory, and filling the menu with delicious, homemade ice cream flavors—many from her grandmother’s original recipes. But unexpected construction delays mean she misses the summer season, and the shop has a literal cold opening: the day she opens her doors an early first snow descends on the village and keeps the customers away.
To make matters worse, that evening, Win finds a body in the snow, and it turns out the dead man was a grifter with an old feud with the Crewse family. Soon, Win’s father is implicated in his death. It’s not easy to juggle a new-to-her business while solving a crime, but Win is determined to do it. With the help of her quirky best friends and her tight-knit family, she’ll catch the ice cold killer before she has a meltdown. . .
Publication Date: May 12, 2020
Name of Series: Ice Cream Parlor
Number in Series: 1st
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Author Website: abbycollette.com
About the author
Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Abby Collette loves a good mystery. Born and raised in Cleveland, it’s even a mystery to her why she has yet to move to a warmer place. Author of the two Southern cozy mystery series Logan Dickerson Mysteries featuring a second-generation archaeologist and a nonagenarian who is always digging up trouble, and the Romaine Wilder Mysteries, set in East Texas, it pairs a medical examiner and her feisty auntie who owns a funeral home and is always ready to solve a whodunnit. Abby spends her time writing, facilitating writing workshops at local libraries and spending time with her grandchildren, each of which are her favorite.
Abby is a member of Crime Writers of Color, and Sisters in Crime, National, Regional and Guppies Chapters.
All comments are welcomed.
Such a great cover! Congratulations and I can’t wait to get a copy!
Thank you! I’m so excited about it.
Congrats again, Abby! (And I love the cat on the cover.)
Lol. I love your cat! So big and fluffy. Thank you, Jen. I’m excited about this journey you and I are both embarking on. And congrats on your new cover, too! So cute and colorful.
Can’t wait to read it!!!
Thank you! I can’t wait for it to come out! Lol
Great cover! Can’t wait to read the book.