2- Winners of a copy of Fried Chicken Castañeda by Suzanne Stauffer, with bookmarks

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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 Author Suzanne Stauffer

After 20 years as a librarian and 20 years 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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