My name is Sienna Murray. I’m a high school senior and I live in Wildwood Cove on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s a cute town about half an hour from Port Angeles, and my favorite thing about it is the beach. I love living by the ocean! Next year I’ll be off to college, but for now I’m still at home, living with my mom and dad in our beachfront Victorian, where my mom runs a bed-and-breakfast.

On weekdays I have school and homework (blergh), but on the weekends and during the summer I work at the local pancake house, The Flip Side. Most of my friends say the best part of their job is the paycheck. I love getting paid (of course) but I also love my job. Maybe it sounds crazy, but the people I work with are like a second family.

Ivan, the head chef, is like a giant teddy bear. A scary-looking, tattooed teddy bear, but still, I adore him, and he makes the best food. I especially love his s’mores crêpes. Delicious! His assistant, Tommy, is closest to my age and lots of fun. He’s even taught me to ride a skateboard. Leigh’s a waitress like me. She’s like a favorite aunt, and her three daughters are super cute. I babysit them once in a while.

The person I’m closest to at The Flip Side is the owner, Marley Collins. I’d say she’s a combination of a big sister and a close friend. We share a love for mysteries and my favorite days are the ones we spend sleuthing together. I’d like to think I’m her sidekick. I’m not sure she’d agree to call me that though. She’s always worried about me getting into danger, but I think we make a great team. A dynamic sleuthing duo! I’m going to miss working at the pancake house and solving mysteries with Marley once I go away to college, so for now I’m going to make the most of my days at The Flip Side.

A Room With A Roux by Sarah Fox, Pancake House Mystery #7
Genre: Cozy
Release: January 2021
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Marley and her new husband Brett need some quality couple time before the holiday madness, so they drive up into the mountains of the Olympic Peninsula to charming Holly Lodge. Before long they’re enjoying snowshoe excursions, hot chocolates, and cuddling in front of a roaring fire. Despite some barely concealed marital tension between the owners of the lodge, they’re finally able to unwind . . .

Until one morning when they notice a glove sticking out of a snowbank outside of the lodge. Inside the glove is a hand connected to a frozen corpse buried beneath the snow—lodge owner Kevin Manning has been murdered. Presented with a stack of suspects and eventually stranded at the lodge by a blizzard, Marley has to catch the cold-hearted killer before someone else gets iced . . .

Includes pancake recipes right from the Flip Side menu!

About the author
Sarah Fox is the author of the USA Today bestselling Pancake House Mystery series as well as the Literary Pub Mystery series and the Music Lover’s Mystery series. When not writing novels or working as a legal writer, she can often be found reading her way through a stack of books or spending time outdoors with her English Springer Spaniel. Sarah lives in British Columbia and is a member of Crime Writers of Canada.

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