Claudia Bishop has a fun series with the Hemlock Falls mysteries. She has two sisters Meg and Sarah"Quill" Quilliam running an inn in New York state. Meg is the chef and older sister Quill is the manager. They are transplants from New York City and are not considered "locals" by the fellow townsfolk. Their relationship with the town (Quill's boyfriend is the sheriff) and with co-workers and guests seem to dominate the books. The mysteries are solved by both sisters with Quill doing most of the leg work.
The books are fun - character packed, they move fast and the mysteries are not sticky sweet cozies. (Some gruesome deaths in the second book!) I am hoping that they are a little less character packed as the series moves along, because you really need the character list at the beginning of the books to keep everyone straight.
I read the first two in the series A Taste for Murder and A Dash of Death. Both were good reads and I am looking forward to the characters' growth in the series.
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