This is a great start to the appealing Country Store mystery series by the author of the Quaker Midwide series, Edith Maxwell (writing here as Maddie Day).
Robbie Jordan has moved back to South Lick, Indiana after the death of her mother to be near her mother's sister, Aunt Adele. She opens Pans n' Pancakes, a cozy country restaurant that also sells vintage-style kitchen equipment, but soon after her grand opening, the mayor's obnoxious assistant is found dead with one of Robbie's cheesy biscuits stuffed into her mouth. There's nothing like opening a new business and immediately becoming a murder suspect, but Robbie apparently has no motive!
Day offers a great group of interesting characters with a lot of potential for development in future books. There is also the intriguing subplot about Robbie's father, whose identity has never been revealed to her. I know that the author earned her doctorate in linguistics in Indiana, so I enjoyed every instance of local dialect that she included in the story. I would give this series a definite thumbs up!
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