Mornin’ y’all! I’m Louisa Eggers, and this is Thelma, my blue-ribbon-winning Polish hen. She’s a great little companion, and the inspiration for my budding egg enterprise. I started as a Polish hen breeder, and that’s going very well, but Thelma and her ladies produce more eggs than you can imagine. Far more than I could eat or trade on my own, so I had to think bigger. Now I’m serving up breakfast five days a week at Souffle the Day, our new roadside souffle stand!

We set up shop in an old outbuilding with two big barn doors. The rectangular space originally held a tractor and some other tools for farming, but now it has a little kitchen, scattered tables covered in blue and white checked clothes and a heaping helping of country décor. Including plenty of pictures of my hens!

When I’m not baking and serving souffles, I spend my time with Thelma and her ladies, Jack and Jill, my betrothed miniature donkeys, or the neighbors in my small cottagecore community. In Meadowbrook, we work the land and live simple, peaceful lives, focused on health, nature, and well-being. We rely on one another, and we strive to meet the communal needs of others. Some Meadowbrookers farm vegetables or raise livestock. Others fish the stream, hunt, or can summer produce for fall. We make or barter for almost everything, and give me a nice book and blanket in the sun, and I’ll be happy all day.

Folks outside Meadowbrook used to whisper and think we were strange, but my souffle stand is slowly changing all that. Now, patrons from both sides of the imaginary divide are enjoying their breakfasts together, and the townies are finally getting a look inside our little storybook community. Better yet? They’re loving it and inviting their friends!

Or they were. . . until a local reviewer was shockingly harsh about my food and promptly died while eating it. Now the police are looking at me for answers, and the townsfolk think they were wrong for giving my community a try. So, Thelma and I are donning our sleuthing caps to crack the case, with a little help from our neighbors and friends. I hope you’ll join us! Or at least have a little souffle. These eggs are adding up fast.

No Farm No Fowl, A Thelma & Louisa Mystery #1
Genre: Cozy
Release: April 2022
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It’s out of the frying pan and into the fire for Thelma and Louisa in this new farm to fun cozy mystery series!

Polish chicken breeder Louisa Eggers and her beloved hen, Thelma, are enjoying life sunny side up in their earthy cottagecore community of Meadowbrook. Friends and neighbors can’t get enough of Louisa’s special breakfast recipes, and she has high hopes of feathering her nest with income from the budding egg enterprise.

But when a local naysayer, seemingly determined to bring bad press to Louisa’s community, lifestyle, and café is found dead with a belly full of her quiche, and the coroner crows murder, all eyes turn to Louisa for an explanation.

To save their business and reputation, Thelma and Louisa lay a plan to find the killer. Can they crack this case before it’s too late? Or will they find themselves in a heaping helping of trouble?

About the author
Julie Anne Lindsey is an award-winning and bestselling author of mystery and romantic suspense. She’s published more than forty novels since her debut in 2013 and currently writes series as herself, as well as under multiple pen names, for Harlequin, Kensington, Sourcebooks and Crooked Lane Books. When Julie’s not creating new worlds or fostering the epic love of fictional characters, she can be found in Kent, Ohio, plotting murder with her shamelessly enabling friends. Today she hopes to make someone smile. One day she plans to change the world. Learn more about Julie at julieannelindsey.com.

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