There's only one rule to writing romance stories.

They always end with a happily ever after.

And Nancy Brofey didn't just write them?

She was a romance mystery writer who happens to be married to a chef.

She seemed to be living one, too.

I was jealous of their relationship.

They seemed to really just fit.

Nancy's love story could have been ripped right out of the pages of one of her own novels.

But this story didn't end with a happily ever after.

When I stepped into the kitchen, I could see that Chef Brofie was on the ground, and I heard

somebody say, call 911.

From Wondery, the makers of ghost story and fed up, this is a story about a murder that

rocked my little community.

The way Dan was murdered, cold-blooded, calculated, we have no eyewitnesses.

Two caseings and a dead body.

That's it.

You have nothing more.

As writers, we'd written our share of murder mysteries.

So when suspicion turned to Dan's wife, Nancy, we weren't that surprised.

The first person they look at would be the spouse.

We understand that's usually the way they do it.

But we began to wonder, were the detectives confusing Nancy's novels with reality?

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