Emma Reed, formerly a London-based accountant, is eager to grow her baking business, a tea room in the King's Rest B & B in the Cornish village of Trevena. She and her partners happily take on the job of catering the annual Daphne du Maurier Literary Festival, an event that takes place at Truscott Grange, the ancestral home of the Cochrane family. They are worried about the veiled suggestion that Marcie Cochrane, the treasurer, may be embezzling, but go ahead anyway. As they drive to the estate to present their menu to the festival board, they find a body: Marcie's. The family puts pressure on the local police to declare her death a suicide, but Emma isn't so sure. And neither is her talking corgi, Oliver, who enlists the Cochrane dog to help search for clues, sniffing out the movements of festival board members, grange staff, and Cochrane family members, and communicating their findings to Emma. With the setting in a charming Cornish village and a tea shop, allusions to du Maurier novels, and endearing canine companions, this cozy will appeal on many levels.