The body in the bonfire

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Tamar Myers

National bestselling author Tamar Myers turns up the spicePraise for the Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries:Includes tasty curry recipes!Three days before he's due to tie the knot with Priscilla Livengood, eligible bachelor Cornelious Weaver suffers a massive heart attack-in another woman's bed. The scandal is about as good as television for the insular citizens of Hernia, Pennsylvania, and it gets even spicier when the coroner's report reveals possible foul play: Cornelious's curry was spiked with a stimulant.Innkeeper-cum-sleuth Magdalena Yoder can't help but investigate-and soon discovers that the old adage about a woman scorned is true...

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Diane Mott Davidson

Catering a for the funeral of your son's favorite teacher who died of an apparent suicide is never the most exciting event. That is, until someone tries to poison your abusive ex-husband's father during the reception, causing your new catering buisness to get shut down by the heath department. With help from local police investigator Tom Schultz, Goldy Bear the Caterer finds all sorts of skeletons in her "ex-family's" closet while trying to solve the mystery as to why a friendly, happy, and beloved teacher would want to kill herself. With buisness shut down until further notice, Goldy uses her free time to figure out who wanted her ex- father in-law dead so she can clear her name, for buisness' sake. This is the first Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery. Takes place in the small cold town of Aspen Meadows, Colorado during the weeks before Halloween. A good read.

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Tamar Myers

Book 11 in the Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery with Recipes series. From the front and back flaps: *Kentucky Colonel George Custard thinks Magdalena's hometown of Hernia, Pennsylvania is perfect... so perfect, in fact, he has decided to build his new mega five-star hotel there. And if everything goes according to plan, roads will be widened and wealthy tourists will start pouring in by the thousands. But not everyone thinks this is such a good idea, because the new superstructure will surely destroy the town's quaint and quite ambience. Meanwhile, Hernia has another unwelcome guest to worry about based on wild reports that Bigfoot is roaming the area.* *At a town council meeting, several vocal citizens including Magdalena, protest Custard's project. Soon after, the colonel is found murdered--shot to death at the PennDutch Inn. No one minded telling him off, but killing him off is a different story. With the police investigation going nowhere, Magdalena takes it upon herself to find out who caused Custard's last stand. She must stay one step ahead of both the rumors and the builders to solve the case, restore peace--and save her beloved town...* *INCLUDES A HALF DOZEN HEAVENLY CUSTARD RECIPES*

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Joanne Fluke

"The Cookie Jar's busiest time of the year also happens to be the most wonderful time ... for Christmas cookies, Hannah's own special plum pudding--and romance! She also gets a kick out of "Lunatic Larry Jaeger's Crazy Elf Christmas Tree Lot," a kitschy carnival taking place smack-dab in the middle of the village green. But then Hannah discovers the man himself dead as a doornail in his own office ... Now, with so many suspects to investigate and the twelve days of Christmas ticking away, Hannah's running out of time to nab a murderous Scrooge who doesn't want her to see the New Year ..."--Back cover.