July 15, 2024
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. Agent: Sandy Harding, Spencerhill Assoc.