Home Fries and Alibis - A Review & Giveaway

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HOME FRIES AND ALIBIS by Lena Gregory

The Eighth All-Day Breakfast Café Mystery

 

Life in Central Florida is agreeing with Gia Morelli. She owns the popular All-Day Breakfast Café and has a dynamic group of friends as well as a fiancé who loves her. She has a wonderful home in a peaceful neighborhood. She's even getting used to the bears, raccoons, snakes, and other critters that live nearby. What she can't get used to is her new neighbor.  The once idyllic community has been shattered by the arrival of Gladys Hoffmeier. Gladys is nasty, belligerent, and has called 911 on her neighbors so many times she's been banned. But she crosses the line when she descends on Gia's home accusing Thor, Gia's Bernese mountain dog, of digging in her yard. Gia manages to control her temper until Gladys threatens to shoot Thor. The following morning Gladys is found dead. Pretty much everyone who met the woman had a reason to want her dead, but who actually did the deed? 

 

Emotions run high in the eighth All-Day Breakfast Café. Gia is a better person than I. If someone threatened my animals and wound up dead I'd be satisfied and ready to dance on that person's grave. Gia and Savannah actually feel bad, wanting the woman gone, but not dead, and are ready to figure out just who killed her.

 

HOME FRIES AND ALIBIS is a well plotted mystery with no end of suspects and a wide range of motives, a list made even longer when blackmail comes to light. There are thrilling, pulse pounding moments. There are also quiet contemplative moments and moments of fun. 

 

The characters are the heart of the story. Gia and Savannah's friendship so close as to be family. Leo and Hunt, Cole and Earl, Alfie's exuberance, I could go on. The people are more than characters on a page. They're people you want to make a part of your life. 

 

With a heartwarming sense of community HOME FRIES AND ALIBIS is a cozy hug in book form.

 

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 Home Fries and Alibis (An All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery) by Lena Gregory

About Home Fries and Alibis

Home Fries and Alibis (An All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery)
Cozy Mystery 8th in Series 

Setting - Florida 
Publisher: ‎ Beyond the Page Publishing 
Publication Date: ‎ September 23, 2025 
Print Length: ‎ 178 pages

When a belligerent woman moves in across the street, café owner Gia Morelli has to call off the welcome wagon and call in the homicide squad . . .

When a nasty new neighbor moves into their peaceful community, Gia and everyone else in the neighborhood is ready to blow a fuse. The spiteful woman has quickly made a nuisance of herself, complaining to and about everyone there. Then she makes the grave mistake of falsely claiming Gia’s dog tore up her yard, and Gia goes ballistic, telling the woman to back off . . . or else. It was an impulsive move for Gia, but someone else decides an even more extreme approach is called for, and silences the woman—permanently.

Unnerved by the thought of a murderer living in her neighborhood, Gia begins digging into the victim’s life to figure out who would have wanted her dead. She soon discovers that the woman was not only malicious but was blackmailing people in the community. Even more surprising is that nearly everyone in the neighborhood has something to hide. Dead-set on rooting out the culprit, Gia has to determine who stood to lose the most if their secret was revealed, unaware that she’s perilously close to losing her own life . . .

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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