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The Culinary School Conspiracy: A Prissy Carter Cozy Mystery
🎓 Prestige. Secrets. Sabotage.
Prissy Carter dreamed of perfecting her craft at the world-renowned Auguste Academy of Culinary Arts. But when she arrives, the recipes aren’t the only things simmering. Whispers of vanished students, cryptic notes hinting at a “next course,” and punishments that feel more like chains than lessons threaten to turn her dream into a nightmare.
When a suspicious “kitchen accident” nearly turns deadly, Prissy’s Chef’s Sixth Sense—a gift for tasting lies as easily as flavors—warns her that something sinister is at work. With her ragtag allies—a science-nerd sous chef, a street-smart cook, and a cryptic janitor with secrets of his own—Prissy digs deeper into the Academy’s gilded halls.
But every clue uncovered tightens the noose. And someone is determined to silence her before she can expose the truth.
🥖 Culinary School Conspiracy is the first in A Prissy Carter Mystery—a binge-worthy cozy mystery series where bread is choice, fire is chains, and one heroine refuses to crumble.
Fans of Rosie A. Point, J.A. Whiting, and Ellie Alexander will savor every twist.
Prissy Carter dreamed of perfecting her craft at the world-renowned Auguste Academy of Culinary Arts. But when she arrives, the recipes aren’t the only things simmering. Whispers of vanished students, cryptic notes hinting at a “next course,” and punishments that feel more like chains than lessons threaten to turn her dream into a nightmare.
When a suspicious “kitchen accident” nearly turns deadly, Prissy’s Chef’s Sixth Sense—a gift for tasting lies as easily as flavors—warns her that something sinister is at work. With her ragtag allies—a science-nerd sous chef, a street-smart cook, and a cryptic janitor with secrets of his own—Prissy digs deeper into the Academy’s gilded halls.
But every clue uncovered tightens the noose. And someone is determined to silence her before she can expose the truth.
🥖 Culinary School Conspiracy is the first in A Prissy Carter Mystery—a binge-worthy cozy mystery series where bread is choice, fire is chains, and one heroine refuses to crumble.
Fans of Rosie A. Point, J.A. Whiting, and Ellie Alexander will savor every twist.
254 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 13, 2025
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May 10, 2026
Well, that was terrible.
I am 99% certain that this was written by AI. It is nonsensical slop that is brimming with cooking puns.
Sometimes, scenes will play out that already concluded, but with slight changes? And not in a cute clever way but in a 'what are some ways this scene could play out' way.
Some characters are referenced for the first time as though we are supposed to know them.
Multiple characters show up to vanish into nothingness.
One consistent main character develops a quirk abour 55% of the way through and starts saying "statistically speaking" in every sentence.
The MC has a "sixth sense" that does all the work, twinging over and over and telling her all sorts of things, ratcheting things up for no reason.
At one point, near the end, there are four chapters of bee and cooking metaphors (the bee thing came out of nowhere soon) while the sixth sense keeps telling her (as do the other characters) she has to make a choice. She is cornered, but manages to run through tunnels and run into various people, the whole time being told, over and over again, that a decision needs to be made.
The unmasked mastermind is never named or described.
The words "sixth sense" appear in the book more often than there are pages - although sometimes in italics and capitalized (like the movie) and sometimes not.
Besides the sixth sense situation, there's also an overwhelmingly overused construction, a negation-declaration. "This wasn't just ___, it was ___". Over and over and over and over and over again. This shows up about 200 times in the book. There are also declarations like "no more calling this ____. it's ____" The characters over and over have to discover and declare that there's something terrible and dastardly going on.
Weirdly, no one has phones.
And the school they're at has guards and cells?
There are tunnels that need keys?
There are SEVERAL storerooms of poison, and each one is a complete surprise.
Definitely doesn't make any sense. I can't imagine it being written by a human.
I am 99% certain that this was written by AI. It is nonsensical slop that is brimming with cooking puns.
Sometimes, scenes will play out that already concluded, but with slight changes? And not in a cute clever way but in a 'what are some ways this scene could play out' way.
Some characters are referenced for the first time as though we are supposed to know them.
Multiple characters show up to vanish into nothingness.
One consistent main character develops a quirk abour 55% of the way through and starts saying "statistically speaking" in every sentence.
The MC has a "sixth sense" that does all the work, twinging over and over and telling her all sorts of things, ratcheting things up for no reason.
At one point, near the end, there are four chapters of bee and cooking metaphors (the bee thing came out of nowhere soon) while the sixth sense keeps telling her (as do the other characters) she has to make a choice. She is cornered, but manages to run through tunnels and run into various people, the whole time being told, over and over again, that a decision needs to be made.
The unmasked mastermind is never named or described.
The words "sixth sense" appear in the book more often than there are pages - although sometimes in italics and capitalized (like the movie) and sometimes not.
Besides the sixth sense situation, there's also an overwhelmingly overused construction, a negation-declaration. "This wasn't just ___, it was ___". Over and over and over and over and over again. This shows up about 200 times in the book. There are also declarations like "no more calling this ____. it's ____" The characters over and over have to discover and declare that there's something terrible and dastardly going on.
Weirdly, no one has phones.
And the school they're at has guards and cells?
There are tunnels that need keys?
There are SEVERAL storerooms of poison, and each one is a complete surprise.
Definitely doesn't make any sense. I can't imagine it being written by a human.
April 3, 2026
Waste of time!
Terrible book,ridiculous plot , The 2 hours I spent reading it can never be recovered. Set up for a sequel - don t bother.
Terrible book,ridiculous plot , The 2 hours I spent reading it can never be recovered. Set up for a sequel - don t bother.
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