A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor
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While filming at a haunted English manor, chef Bunny MacBride’s big break on her first reality TV show may be cut short by an unscripted murder in Darci Hannah’s new Food & Spirits cozy mystery series . . .
It isn’t how chef Bridget “Bunny” MacBride imagined her own cooking show unfolding. But, if preparing historic meals with a modern flair is what it takes to get her cooking on the air, she can deliver, even if her dinner guest is a ghost. That’s the premise of the new reality TV show Food & Spirits, where Chef Bunny teams up with ghost hunter Brett Bloom and psychic medium Giff McGrady to visit haunted locales around the world and tempt lingering spirits back to the table with a beloved meal. For their first episode, the Food & Spirits team sets off to investigate Bramsford Manor, a historic house turned famously haunted hotel, in picturesque Hampshire, England. The sprawling estate is said to be home to the Mistletoe Bride, a young woman who died in the 18th century, the victim of a tragic accident on her Christmas wedding night.
Disliking spooks but loving food, Bunny leaves the spectral search to the pros and focuses on the feast, creating a traditional English holiday wedding dinner, complete with a gorgeous prime rib, Yorkshire pudding, and rustic apple tarts. It’s a sumptuous meal she hopes will entice the ghostly Mistletoe Bride to take a seat and join them while the cameras roll. But Bunny’s task is made more difficult when someone steals a boning knife from her custom kit. Alas, when the blade finally turns up again—in the chest of an all-too-human dinner guest—Bunny’s woes only grow as she is named a lead suspect in the case! Now, with a haunted house full of living residents, staff, and crew, Bunny will need the help of Brett, Giff, and her clairvoyant Grandma Mac, to solve this murder before the manor gains another ghost!
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Clairvoyant chef Bunny MacBride stumbles into two murder investigations after launching a cooking show with a ghost hunter and a pseudo-psychic in this winsome series launch from Darci (the Beacon Bakeshop mysteries). As production for Food & Spirits begins at Bramsford Manor in Bunny's ancestral home of Scotland, she ignores the spiritual unrest she senses throughout the property. Her job, after all, is to prepare a meal for the young bride who died in the manor 300 years earlier. As she begins cooking, however, Bunny is drawn to the spirit of the property's manor historian—who, it turns out, has just been murdered with Bunny's boning knife. Bunny is arrested for the crime, and uses her phone call to contact her Granny MacBride, from whom she inherited the gift of "second sight." After being released from jail for lack of evidence, Bunny teams up with Granny MacBride and her supernaturally inclined cohosts to figure out who framed her. In the process, she gets wrapped up in the mystery of Bramsford's dead bride. Darci delivers memorable characters, a pair of rollicking mysteries, and plenty of humor. This series has legs.
