Death by Clotted Cream

Treggan Bay Mysteries: Book 5

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Genres

Cozy Murder Mystery, Rural Suspense, Amateur Sleuths, British Detective, and Novels

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Treggan Bay Mysteries — Book 5

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Oct 15, 2026

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Death by Clotted Cream

Treggan Bay Mysteries: Book 5

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Blurb

A perfect cream tea. A body in the cream pan. A story arranged to hide a murder.

November 1996. An exceptional jar of clotted cream arrives at Drift Café with three kisses for Leo. Before Noah Yalland can decide whether to mind, a telephone call takes them to Mallowcombe Barton—an old Devon farmstead turned artisanal creamery—where chef and restaurateur Julian Marwood lies dead over a heated pan.

An overturned step suggests an accident. A conspicuous can of Jersey cream points to a local quarrel. Both explanations are almost too obliging. Behind Mallowcombe's polished beauty lie strained partnerships, family expectations and secrets reaching from the Devon lanes to Julian's fashionable London restaurant.

Working alongside DS Scott Langdon, Noah follows altered records, missing minutes and accounts refined until they shine. The truth may depend on the detail nobody thought to look for.

Death by Clotted Cream is the fifth Treggan Bay Mystery: a self-contained, low-graphic British village mystery with wry first-person sleuthing, tangible clues and a quietly queer heart.

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Genres

Cozy Murder Mystery, Rural Suspense, Amateur Sleuths, British Detective, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

None

Type of Ending

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Series

Treggan Bay Mysteries — Book 5

Series Read Order

Reading prior books is recommended, but not required

Author Prefers A Review On

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Reader Spots Remaining

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Publication Date

Oct 15, 2026

Page Length

331 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

Jern Tonkoi writes atmospheric queer fiction about love, secrets, memory, and the strange courage of being known.

Her books move between Devon coast mysteries, Cork psychological crime, speculative romance, gothic tenderness, and contemporary M/M romance, but they keep returning to characters under pressure: people carrying grief, desire, guilt, old histories, and the difficult hope of telling the truth.

Jern lives between Thailand and the United Kingdom, publishes independently through Tonkoi Books, and is a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors. Because her catalogue crosses genres, heat levels, and age categories, the website is the best place to choose a starting point.