Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Take A Real Bite Out of Crime With New Culinary Mysteries

Apple Turnover Murder / by Joanna Fluke
Fluke’s 13th Hannah Swensen mystery has her heroine putting in long hours at her bakery, The Cookie Jar, while balancing her moderately eventful love life—dating both the town dentist and the local sheriff simultaneously. But when a third love interest, local college professor Bradford Ramsey suddenly winds up dead, Hannah must put her amateur sleuthing skills to the test as certain unlikely suspects crop up at every corner. (MYS FLUKE)
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Batter Off Dead: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery / by Tamar Myers
Full-time mom and part-time sleuth Magdalena Yoder is eight and a half months pregnant when a local woman, the well-fed Minerva J. Jay, drops dead after consuming a hefty load of pancakes at the local Mennonite Brotherhood’s all-you-can-eat breakfast fundraiser. Now, Magdalena must balance the weight of her pregnancy with a most mysterious death. (MYS MYERS)
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The Battered Body / by J.B. Stanley
The “Supper Club”, composed of librarian James, policewoman Lucy, mailman Bennett, teacher Linda and activist Gillian, are catering James’ father’s wedding to the lovely and flashy Paulette on Christmas Eve. But when the bride turns up dead the night before the ceremony, the club is in for another mind-bending mystery. (MYS STANLEY)
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Bone Appetit / by Carolyn Haines
Sarah Booth Delaney has just had a miscarriage and decided that the best way to heal from her loss is to get away from things for a bit. Enrolling at the Viking Cooking School with her best friend and fellow amateur sleuth Tinkie, Sarah begins preparing for the ceremony at a beauty contest. But when several contestants become fatally ill, Sarah and Tinkie must re-engage their detective skills to solve one mystery that’s getting stranger by the minute. (MYS HAINES)
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A Catered Birthday Party: A Mystery With Recipes / by Isis Crawford
Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons own A Little Taste of Heaven catering service and really have a chance to impress with their latest gig, doing a birthday luncheon for a client. Then they discover that the birthday party’s for a dog. When the big day arrives, Bernie and Libby think they’ve got everything under control until the hostess/dog owner, Trudy, falls head-first into the soup—poisoned. (MYS CRAWFORD)

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