A FATAL FEAST AT BRAMSFORD MANOR

A chef and her grandmother attempt to solve a spooky ancient mystery, leading to a very modern murder.

Bridget “Bunny” MacBride, raised on a Scottish farm, works for grumpy celebrity chef Mary Stobart in Connecticut. She’s thrilled to be offered a job as chef on Food and Spirits, Mealtime Network’s new show. What she doesn’t know is that the show’s spirits aren’t potent potables but things that go bump in the night. Bunny, who knows all about ghosts, is appalled but can’t turn down her crack at stardom. So she joins cameramen Cody Jenkins, Ed Franco, and Mike Miller; producer Trig Gunderson; show creator and ghost hunter Brett Bloom; and fake psychic medium Gifford McGrady in heading for Bramsford Manor, a stately English home run as a hotel. Bramsford is one of several places that has a story about the Mistletoe Bride, who vanished while playing hide-and-seek on Christmas Day in 1700, only to be found by her husband 50 years later trapped in a chest in the attic. Bunny heads right to the kitchen, where head chef Lilly Plum shows her the ropes and orders what Bunny will need to make a feast that will lure the bride, spotted by many over the years, into camera range. As it turns out, only Bunny and the grandmother she calls in to help have any real psychic ability. After a white rabbit leads Bunny to find manor historian Marcus Bean’s corpse stuffed into the mistletoe chest with Bunny’s missing knife in his chest, she must uncover the truth to stay out of jail.

The intrepid heroine battles ghosts, her past, and a clever killer while serving great meals through it all.