Lynn Cahoon

Lynn Cahoon writes mystery fiction shaped by close communities, working lives, and amateur sleuths who cannot leave an unanswered question alone. Penned In is a Farm-to-Fork Mystery novella featuring Angie Turner and her County Seat restaurant team during a retreat at an allegedly haunted Idaho penitentiary. When a participant dies, the exercise becomes an investigation conducted inside a setting already designed to create unease. Cahoon also writes the Tourist Trap, Cat Latimer, Kitchen Witch, and Survivors’ Book Club mystery series. Her Farm-to-Fork novels place restaurant work, local relationships, and the agricultural landscape around River Vista central to recurring cases. Penned In belongs to a trio of team-building novellas later collected together, alongside Chili Cauldron Curse and A Vacation to Die For. The shorter form preserves Cahoon’s mixture of workplace camaraderie and danger while giving Angie’s staff an unusually confined problem to solve.