Fun new cozy mystery series with a vegan chef

Bones To Pick (A Brie Hooker Mystery) (Volume 1)

By:Linda Lovely

Rating: 5 of 5

Brie Hooker is a vegan chef who has come home to visit when one of her twin aunts passes away. She ends up staying to help her remaining Aunt Eva run the goat cheese farm that the two aunts had worked on together.

While she is a vegan, she is okay with fixing non-vegan dishes for family and friends, so the book doesn’t preach too hard about food choices. She is attracted to two different men who are quite carnivorous in their food choices as well. She is just finding her footing, when the family pig makes a gruesome discovery on the farm – one that spells legal problems (and worse) for Aunt Eva.

Brie dedicates herself to finding out the actual whodunnit and freeing her aunt from unfair imprisonment. Brie’s mother, father, best friend, and the two good looking local bachelors (along with others) come to her assistance.

The only thing I wished for was some of the vegan recipes that Brie utilizes throughout the book. While I am not a vegan, some of my family members are and I would have loved to wow them with some of the dishes that are described.

I was provided a digital advance reader copy of this book by the publisher via Netgalley.