Bargain @ $1.99 (72% off regular, available worldwide and DRM-free, though you'll have to pick one format; apparently if you later need another one, you can contact them directly and they'll switch it in your library, but the checkout makes you select just one) for today only (Oct 16th) from Weightless Books (who normally do sf/fantasy titles for their Thursday sale):
A Trifle Dead by Australian author Livia Day, a maybe-cozy culinary-themed murder mystery set in Hobart, 1st in her Café La Femme series, out from small press Twelfth Planet.
The blurb says that this is quote-unquote "Shortlisted for Best Debut Book, Davitt Awards for Australian Women’s Crime Writing; Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalist". Weightless' 1-Day Sale titles are generally available from their website right until just before midnight Pacific Time, IIRC.
Tabitha Darling has always had a dab hand for pastry and a knack for getting into trouble. Which was fine when she was a tearaway teen, but not so useful now she’s trying to run a hipster urban cafe, invent the perfect trendy dessert, and stop feeding the many (oh so unfashionable) policemen in her life.
When a dead muso is found in the flat upstairs, Tabitha does her best (honestly) not to interfere with the investigation, despite the cute Scottish blogger who keeps angling for her help. Her superpower is gossip, not solving murder mysteries, and those are totally not the same thing, right?
But as that strange death turns into a string of random crimes across the city of Hobart, Tabitha can’t shake the unsettling feeling that maybe, for once, it really is ALL ABOUT HER.
And maybe she’s figured out the deadly truth a trifle late…