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This book grabs your attention with snark and honesty within the first few pages. Delores Diane Myer-Johansson has been sentenced to 40 hours of community service for having that second glass of wine before driving home. Better known as DeeLo, she is very recently divorced and has relocated to Pecan Pointe, where her mom is in a memory care facility.
This week we have 3 food mysteries for your Thanksgiving feast of reading-Guilt and Ginataan: A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery Book Five by Mia P. Manansala, Fondue or Die by Korina Moss, and Pumpkin Spice Puppy by Laurien Berenson.
There was no column last month since there was not a lot going on. I was and still am, quite full of cats and kittens. I did not do much trapping either as I was so busy caring for the current load of felines.
I had two kittens die from FIP.
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Welcome to Vermont’s own Sappy Endings maple syrup farm, where the syrup is sweet and the pastries are perfect. Well, at least the tasty treats that Leila’s talented mom, Selma, bakes at the Sappy Hour Café are. This is the 3rd book in the Maple Syrup Mystery series, and it has been perfectly named. In the book, the well-earned reputation of the Sappy Endings farm goes from great to deadly because of a killer pie baking contest.
It’s almost Thanksgiving, and that means...Bring on the Turkey! The Great Food Search traveled the countryside, even exploring a supermarket freezer section, to find turkey meals to review . . . and gobble-gobble-gobble!
Too young to be able to retire but forced into early retirement by her university anyway, 60-year-old librarian Jane Hunter found employment for the 30ish eccentric book collector Cameron Clewe. Together they not only continued to inventory his enormous collection of artifacts and ephemera, they also solved the murder of a man killed in Cameron’s 1920s estate home.
Court is in session! All rise for Legally Blonde: The Musical!
Based on the 2001 Reese Witherspoon-starring film (which was based on Amanda Brown’s novel) this frothy 2007 musical is now in session in a Good Company Players’ production at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater through January 12.
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Welcome to the most unique cookbook that I have ever perused. It begins with a prologue of general tips noting that if butter is in a recipe, it is salted butter; eggs should always be large sized eggs; nuts are interchangeable but be careful of allergies; and not all types of flour can be substituted for another.
The Grey Wolf, book 19 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny, is one of the most page-turning, ambitious mystery novels I have read this year. Get ready to buckle up and hang on for all 432 pages – readers will not regret it!
Jonathan Grave funds a home and school for kids whose parents are in jail. When one of them dies from eating fentanyl-laced candy, and two others are ill, he has to find out how the candy made its way into the protected compound and who was behind the plot to harm the boy.
