Book Tour: Fried Chicken Castañeda

 

Fried Chicken Castañeda by Suzanne Stauffer

About Fried Chicken Castañeda

Fried Chicken Castañeda Historical Culinary Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting - Las Vegas, New Mexico, in June 1929 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Artemesia Publishing, LLC Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 6, 2025 Print length ‏ : ‎ 228 pages Paperback ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1963832051 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1963832051 Digital ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1963832242 ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DZC47WJQ

At the Castañeda Hotel you'll find romance, gourmet dining, bootleggers, and murder!

Bored with her conventional middle-class life, Prudence Bates escapes Cleveland by heading west to qualify as a Courier for the Southwestern Indian Detours. On the California Limited she meets Jerry Begay, a charming Navajo school teacher. They feel an instant rapport, but he's headed for Gallup, so it's but a brief encounter.

In Las Vegas, New Mexico Prudence is befriended by Castañeda Hotel Harvey Girls Martha and Anne and desk clerk Clara. They take Prudence under their wing and invite her along to dances and the local hot springs.

Four days later, Martha's brother, Tom, is found murdered. Was it because of his bootlegging activities? Or his amorous relationship with Liz Kearney, daughter of the richest man in the area and rumored mob boss? And was that really Jerry Begay whom Prudence saw meeting with Tom in secret the day before he was killed?

Following in the footsteps of her favorite fictional detectives, Tommy and Tuppence, Prudence is determined to solve the murder. But one wrong step and she may end up in the sights of the bootleggers.

About Suzanne Stauffer

After 20 years as a librarian and 20 as a professor of library science and library historian, Suzanne Stauffer has moved on to a third career as a mystery novelist. She currently lives in Albuquerque with her Australian husband and brown and white spotted rat terrier dogter, Treme. Her debut novel, Fried Chicken Castañeda (Artemesia Publishing, May 2025), won the CIPA EVVY Bronze Medal in Mystery/Crime/Detection and the New Mexico Book Award for Cozy Mystery. 

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Blog https://couriersseries1926.blogspot.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/couriers1926/ Substack Newsletter Amuse-Bouche https://smstauffer.substack.com/

Purchase Links: Publisher Amazon B&N Bookshop.org 

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