Soft Serve Sleighing (Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries)
by Lena Gregory
About Soft Serve Sleighing
Soft Serve Sleighing (Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
5th in Series
Setting – Long Island, NY
Publisher : Gemma Halliday Publishing (January 28, 2025)
Number of Pages – 226
Kindle ASIN : B0DLHPWDNT
From author Lena Gregory comes a delightfully delicious cozy mystery…
With most of Eastern Long Island closed down for a blizzard, Danika Delaney and her friends are holed up in her old fashioned malt shop, the Coffee & Cream Café, with ice cream and hot chocolate. However, their plans to wait out the storm in cozy company are interrupted when a popular YouTuber and her two companions show up at the door—they’ve been trapped by the storm, and Dani generously offers to serve them breakfast. But her generosity isn’t rewarded in kind, as the reviewer then tries to extort money from Dani in exchange for a good review! When the storm finally clears, Dani is happy to have seen the last of them.
Or so she thought.
Dani and her friends decide to go sleigh riding the morning after the storm clears, but instead of a winter wonderland, they find the extorting YouTuber…dead! To make matters worse, Dani suddenly finds herself accused of the woman’s murder. Intent on restoring her reputation, Dani sets out to prove she didn’t do it. This is one storm she’s not sure she can weather…
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Hi all! My name is Lena Gregory, and I’m excited to share a little bit about Soft Serve Sleighing the fifth novel in my Coffee & Cream Café Mystery series with you.
S is for Snow Day. Which Dani and her friends are all set to enjoy before a popular YouTuber shows up and blows up their plans.
O is for Outrage! Dani and her friends are outraged when the woman attempts to extort money from her in exchange for a good review.
F is for Fat Chance. Dani’s polite response to the offer.
T is for Tension. Dani spends all day worried that the YouTuber will give her a terrible review and ruin the reputation she’s just started to achieve.
S is for Storm. Unfortunately, this is one storm Dani might not be able to weather.
E is for Escape. With the fear of a damaging review hanging over her, Dani and her friends decide to escape for the day and go sledding.
R is for Rumors. The Watchogue gossip mill is working overtime to keep up with rumors of extortion and murder.
V is for Vengeance. Could vengeance possibly be the motive behind Brynleigh’s murder? And if so, was it a local resident that did the deed?
E is for Ethel. Or in Danika’s case, her best friend and partner in crime, Gwen Rothberg. (The Ethel to her Lucy, according to Detective Dreamy)
S is for Sledding. Which should have been fun, if not for a not to gentle landing amid a pricker bush that contained more than just thorns.
L is for Love. An unexpected declaration.
E is for Eli. A.K.A. Elijah Sinclair, Danika’s barista at the Coffee & Cream Café, who is a hero in his own adorable way.
I is for Infidelity. An age-old motive for murder.
G is for Gunshot. When a gunshot rings out, one of the Coffee & Cream Café gang goes down.
H is for Homicide. Which Danika Delaney insists she didn’t commit, despite what the evidence might indicate.
I is for Interference. Danika, once again, interferes in her sort-of boyfriend, Detective Jake Barlow’s, murder investigation.
N is for Nerves. Dani’s nerves almost get the better of her when she winds up in a dangerous predicament.
G is for Goal. Will Dani achiever her goal of exonerating herself and finding a killer?
About Lena Gregory
Lena Gregory is the author of the Bay Island Psychic Mysteries, which take place on a small island between the north and south forks of Long Island, New York, the All-Day Breakfast Café Mysteries, which are set on the outskirts of Florida’s Ocala National Forest, the Mini-Meadows Mysteries, set in a community of tiny homes in Central Florida, and the Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries, which take place in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, New York.
Lena grew up in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, but she recently traded in cold, damp, gray winters for the warmth and sunshine of central Florida, where she now lives with her husband, three kids, son-in-law, and four dogs. Her hobbies include spending time with family, reading, and walking. Her love for writing developed when her youngest son was born and didn’t sleep through the night. She works full-time as a writer and a freelance editor and is a member of Sisters in Crime.
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Thank you so much for having me and for sharing the release of Soft Serve Sleighing!
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My pleasure. Best wishes with your new release.
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My pleasure always, Lena.
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