Welcome to The Next Chapter Podcast. Today I’m welcoming the inspiring and delightful G.P. Gottlieb with her newest installment in the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series, CHARRED.

Meet G.P Gottlieb—

In her own words:

I earned music degrees and performed, taught, composed, or administered while writing stories, songs, and several unwieldy manuscripts. After recovering from breast cancer in 2015, I turned to writing in earnest, melding my two passions: nourishment for mind and body and recipe-laced murder mysteries.

As the host of New Books in Literature, a podcast channel on the New Books Network, I’ve interviewed over 280 authors. I lead the Sisters in Crime Chicagoland book group and also belong to SinC Colorado, SinC Wisconsin, Mystery Writers of America, the Authors Guild, and Blackbird Writers.

The first three Whipped and Sipped Mysteries (Battered, Smothered, and Charred) have been reissued by Anamcara Press, and #4, Pounded: A Whipped & Sipped Mystery, will be released March 16, 2027!

About CHARRED:

Welcome to Chicago's Coziest Cafe - the pastries are vegan, the coffee is strong, and the gossip can be deadly!

Even a worldwide pandemic can’t keep a woman like Alene Baron down... nor from finding herself in the middle of a murder investigation. While she has to get creative to keep the Whipped and Sipped Café going during the COVID lockdown, that is nothing compared to figuring out the real story about a dead body found in a burnt-out building in her neighborhood. Red herring might not be vegan, but it does seem to be the order of the day.