Recipe for a Fun Read: Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death by Amita Murray

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And now for a delicious read, that is the start of a new fun series!

Synopsis

Arya Winters is your typical cozy heroine. She lives in a cottage in a small English village, and bakes for a living—well, she specializes in macabre desserts. She has the standard nosy neighbors, who she avoids ruthlessly due to her social anxiety.

When her neighbor Tobias Yards turns up dead, no one seems to connect it to Arya's Auntie Meera's recent death, so she takes matters into her own hands. All she has to do to uncover the truth is to get over her aversion to Other People. Besides that, it's just a matter of getting beyond some yellow tape, dodging her former BFF Tallulah from secondary school, and getting into her new neighbor, writer Branwell Beam's, pants—he seems strangely reluctant. What Arya doesn't realize is that the murderer is dangerous, preying on lonely people who've experienced trauma, and that she might have to do all she can not to become the next victim

Review:

Arya is all of us during Covid- leave me alone and let me do my thing-but that thing is now making her money and thanks to her aunt's will, providing her a place to do it in. Only her aunt's death just isn't being dedected to her happiness. Reluctantly she realizes she need the help of Bramwell to not only clear her ex's name from murdering HIS relative, but to stop the string of murders that seem to be occurring in town. Add in a detective to seems to spend more time coming up lines to hit on Arya with, and her bumbling fashion Q co-hort, and it's no wonder Arya gets pulled in. As she meets her fellow villagers while seeking out the truth, Arya learns that no one is an island, and we all need people, and to be needed. It's a fun cozy, with food descriptions perfect for Halloween baking, so if you're looking for some out of the box ideas for this year's (fingers crossed) Halloween party, there are plenty here! Don't miss this start to a new series!

About the Author:

Amita is a writer, based in London, who previously lived in Delhi and California. Her first novel, THE TROUBLE WITH ROSE came out from Harper Collins in 2019, and her short fiction has won the SI Leeds Literary Prize, and has appeared in Wasafiri, SAND Berlin, the Berkeley Fiction Review and others. She’s held writerly residencies with Leverhulme/University College London and Plymouth University/Literature Works, and has taught advanced fiction at the University of East Anglia and CityLit London. Find her online @AmitaMurray and www.amitamurray.com.