A Murder Most Fowl Reading Kit

What Is A Murder Most Fowl?

A Murder Most Fowl is the first book in the Food Truck Mystery Series by Carmela Dutra. The amateur sleuths are twins Beth and Seth Lloyd, the owners of a chicken-themed food truck in The Food Truck Showdown, a national TV show that pits eight food trucks against each other in a cutthroat cooking competition. When the competition turns lethal, Beth, Seth, and their kitchen assistant Rylie follow the breadcrumbs and wing their way through the mystery

A Murder Most Fowl Reader Questions

Use these questions to reflect on the story after you read it or to spark discussions in a book club.

Did you enjoy reading A Murder Most Fowl?
Would you like to own your own food truck? What would the theme of your food truck be?
Who is your favorite character from A Murder Most Fowl?
Which food truck did you think would win the Food Truck Showdown?
Did you have a favorite scene in A Murder Most Fowl? What did you like about this scene?
What makes Beth a good amateur sleuth?
What did you think of the relationships between Beth, Seth, and Rylie?
Were you able to guess the culprit in A Murder Most Fowl?
What clues helped and what red herrings threw you off the trail of the killer?
Have you ever watched a cooking show competition?
Have you ever gotten food from a food truck? What is your favorite food truck treat?
Do you plan on reading Hot Wings and Homicide, the second book in the Food Truck Mystery Series?
Do you have any predictions for future books in the Food Truck Mystery Series?

Murder Most Fowl Book Club Activities

Make the recipes in the back of A Murder Most Fowl and discuss the book.
Take a field trip and visit a local food truck.
Have a recipe exchange. Ask every book club member to bring a recipe for a dish they would serve if they had their own food truck.
Take turns giving your opinion of the book using only chicken puns.
Imagine that A Murder Most Fowl is being adapted into a television series. Take turns saying which actor or actress you would choose to play your favorite character from the book.
Take turns telling the group about the best food you’ve ever gotten from a food truck.
Print off and pass out some of the fun printable mystery activities created by Food Truck Mystery author Carmela Dutra.
Take turns telling your favorite chicken, sibling, or food-truck related story.
Write a review for A Murder Most Fowl.

The Kluckin’ Greek Chicken Wings

Author Carmela Dutra shared this recipe with Cozy Crime Reads for The Kluckin’ Greek Chicken Wings.

This tasty wing recipe is a customer favorite from Kluckin’ Good, the chicken-themed food truck Beth and Seth run in A Murder Most Fowl.

The wings are baked in the oven and have an irresistible zesty flavor.

Get The Kluckin’ Greek Chicken Wings recipe.

Beth’s Mac and Cheese Poppers

Author Carmela Dutra also shared this recipe for Beth’s Mac and Cheese Poppers. They can be eaten on their own or paired with The Kluckin’ Greek Chicken Wings for a full-blown food truck flavor experience.

Beth serves these delicious Mac and Cheese Poppers to the judges on Food Truck Showdown in A Murder Most Fowl. It is easy to see why these bite-sized poppers are her secret weapon. They are amazing!

Get the recipe for Beth’s Mac and Cheese Poppers.

Mystery Activity Pages

If you want to have more mystery fun, check out these activity pages created by Carmela Dutra. Click on the links or the images to print the pages or save them to your computer.

Reading Log Coloring Page

This Reading Log Coloring Page was created by Carmela Dutra. It features a cozy reading scene that you can color in with markers, colored pencils, or crayons.

The coloring page also doubles as a reading log. You can fill in the book spines with titles of books as you finish reading them.

There are 20 book spines in all. When you complete all 20 books, you can contact Carmela Dutra to “turn the paper in” for a special surprise.

You can reach Carmela via the contact form on her website.

Whodunit Tracker

This Whodunit Tracker from Carmela Dutra works like a personal detective’s notebook.

You can use it while you read a mystery to follow clues, analyze suspects, track alibis, and identify red herrings.

The Whodunit Tracker has three pages with prompts to guide you through the investigation. Can you solve the case before the big reveal?

Click on the Whodunit Tracker image to see and print a PDF of all three pages.

Interview with Carmela Dutra

Check out this Cozy Crime Reads interview with Carmela Dutra to learn more about her books and writing process. Discover why she chose to write cozy mysteries, how she creates her characters and settings, and what she does to take a story from an idea to a published book.

Visit CarmelaDutra.com

You can sign up for Carmela Dutra’s free Kluckin’ Clues Newsletter, read Carmela’s blog, and get more cozy fun on CarmelaDutra.com.

A Murder Most Fowl and Author Carmela Dutra