Vengeful Vellum by Mildred Abbott

Item: Vengeful Vellum
Rating: 5
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Posted December 31, 2024 by karenbaron in #BookishRecipe, Mystery, Review, Series / 0 Comments

Vengeful Vellum

by Mildred Abbott

Series: Cozy Corgi Mysteries #19
Series Rating:

Published by Independently Published on October 26, 2020
Setting: Estes Park, Colorado
Genres: Cozy Culinary Animal Mystery
Pages: 296
Format: Kindle, Paperback
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Also in this series: , Cruel Candy , Traitorous Toys, Bickering Birds, Savage Sourdough, Scornful Scones , , Wicked Wildlife, Malevolent Magic , Killer Keys , Perilous Pottery, Ghastly Gadgets, Meddlesome Money, Precarious Pasta, Yowling Yetis

Scrapbooks of memories, tragic history, and town council elections are a deadly combination…  

The final hurrah of the summer tourist season coincides with Estes Park’s commemoration of the Big Thompson Canyon flood and the results of the contentious town council election. As the warm evening gathering for somber remembrance wraps up with dramatic election announcements, the surprises involve shouts of anger… and murder.  

Following a trail of blackmail, Winifred Page discovers a crime with more twists and turns than the Cozy Corgi Bookshop’s mystery room can handle. But as a scrapbook featured in the crafting club illustrates, there is no case Fred and her corgi sidekick, Watson, can’t unravel.  

Secrets are revealed and dark history uncovered, thanks to a group of avid scrapbook aficionados. And Fred will need all the dirty chai lattes the Cozy Corgi Bakery can craft if she is to find the threat buried somewhere in the past or living and breathing in one of the charming shops on Elkhorn Avenue…  

(This culinary cozy mystery includes a recipe for a breathtaking Peach and Vanilla Bean Pie.) 

Vengeful Vellum by Mildred Abbott sees Fred with a doozy of a case to solve.

Will Fred discover the link between blackmail and murder?

Fred and Watson

Fred is still plugging away at solving crimes while enjoying owning the Cozy Corgi bookstore and hanging out with her best friend and boyfriend. She has a lot of things going on for her, and I’m glad to see Fred happy. Watson is still the food-loving dog that he is. He is also a major grump when it comes to certain things, but he’s super cute.

I still love Fred and Watson the corgi.

The Mysteries

Fred and the rest of the Estes Park citizens saw the dead body on the screen at the park when they were announcing the candidates for the town council. It was quite a shock for everyone, including the victim’s family. Fred and Watson are tasked by someone not to solve the mystery but to figure out who is blackmailing the town council. Are the two connected?

I have to say that this one threw me in a loop as I didn’t get who did it, why, or anything.

Five Stars

My rating for Vengeful Vellum by Mildred Abbott is five stars. I love the Cozy Corgi Mysteries and will always recommend this series. Ms. Abbott writes it in a way that allows you to pop into any book and be okay reading that one while going back to read the others later.

Don’t forget to check out the recipe for Katie’s Peach and Vanilla Bean Pie at the back of the book.

The Cozy Corgi Mystery Series

Also Available on #KindleUnlimited.

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About Mildred Abbott

Preoccupied with everything found in cozy mysteries: Puppies, Books, Cozy Mountain Towns, and Baked Goods. Although not obsessed with murder, however. At least not in real life (No contract killing here). But since childhood, starting with Nancy Drew, trying to figure out whodunit has played a formative role in everyday life. Author of the Cozy Corgi series and the Twister Sister series.