Guest Sleuth Spotlight: Greta Sinclair
Series: A Darcy and Mozart Cozy Culinary Mystery
The Book:
Newlywed food critic Darcy Finnegan has waited two whole months for one perfect, murder-free honeymoon — Sydney in winter, harbor lights, and pavlova under the dazzling glow of the Vivid festival. Her Interpol husband Marcus is finally at her side, the desserts are legendary, and Darcy has exactly one rule for this trip: no bodies. Naturally, that lasts about as long as it takes a celebrity dessert judge to collapse mid-event.
Because trouble follows Darcy the way Mozart follows a dropped lamington. Just as judge Julian "Jules" Ransom drops dead, her best friend Lizzie turns up unannounced — camera in hand, Schnoodle in tow — and the shoes poking out from beneath the nearest table are unmistakably Lizzie's. Suddenly Darcy's blissful honeymoon becomes a race through Sydney's glittering culinary world to clear the best friend everyone else has already convicted.
The deeper Darcy digs, the messier it gets: stolen recipes, bitter rivalries between chefs who'd sooner sabotage a soufflé than share a spotlight, and a dockside sugar-fraud scheme with a body count. Add in Mozart — the irrepressible Schnoodle who steals every scene and occasionally cracks the case — and you've got a frame job built to cost Darcy everything: her best friend's freedom, her brand-new marriage, and the instincts she's always trusted. (Bonus recipe included, because of course it is.)
Coming June 26 — pre-order now at $0.99. Fresh off the press; reader reviews are still to come.
If you love the culinary cozies of Joanne Fluke, Laura Childs, or Lucy Burdette, you'll feel right at home in Darcy's delicious, dangerous world.
“A newlywed food critic, an Interpol husband, and a scene-stealing Schnoodle named Mozart, all turned loose in Sydney during the Vivid festival — this one is going straight to the top of my TBR. Greta Sinclair took home a Silver Medal at the 2025 Global Book Awards, and she writes the kind of culinary cozy where the desserts are every bit as memorable as the suspects. If you like your mysteries with a passport, a pavlova, and a very clever dog, pre-order this one and settle in.”
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