by Laura Childs
New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs offers up Stake and Eggs, the 4th installment in her Cackleberry Club Mystery series. This “Queen of the Cozy” knows how to pour on the suspense!
Ice runs in this killer’s veins!
A snowstorm rolls through the Midwest, flash-freezing everything like a package of Mrs. Paul’s fish sticks. Tucked inside the cozy Cackleberry Club café, Suzanne and her two partners hear the crash of a snowmobile and nervously decide to investigate. But a foray into the raging storm turns up a headless rider and a wire stretched between two stakes.
Who would murder their new bank president in such a grisly manner? Someone gunning for his job or an unhappy customer whose property has been foreclosed on? Suzanne and Sheriff Doogie put their heads together to investigate this murder and turn up more than a few wild card suspects – even as the temperature drops and Suzanne’s romance with the local doctor heats up.
Based on a fictional Minnesota town, Laura Childs has filled Stake and Eggs with a raft of small-town characters that make you chuckle and yearn for simpler times. The main character (Suzanne) isn’t your basic cozy heroine either. She’s recently widowed, just launched her café, is “mom” to her aging dog Baxter, and (good heavens!) is a little past forty. She’s also an intelligent, focused amateur sleuth who doesn’t rely on “coincidences” or inept police work to solve crimes. In fact, she’s buckthorn in the side of Sheriff Doogie, who does his small-town best to solve the grisly murder.
Halfway between a cozy and a thriller (a thrillsy!) Stake and Eggs offers an exciting read with tea, knitting, romance, a dash of spirituality, and good sleuthing with three women who are over forty and proud of it. You’ll also flip over Cackleberry Club recipes such as lemon cornbread, dirty fried chicken, and red velvet chocolate chip pancakes.
BIOGRAPHY
WEBSITE
http://www.laurachilds.com
PURCHASE
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
BOOK SIGNINGS
Once Upon a Crime
604 West 26th St., Mpls.
Phone 612-870-3785
Saturday, November 10 from Noon to 2
OTHER BOOKS PUBLISHED
Tea Shop Mysteries
Death by Darjeeling
Gunpowder Green
Shades of Earl Grey
English Breakfast Club Murder
Jasmine Moon Murder
Chamomile Mourning
Blood Orange Brewing
Dragonwell Dead
The Silver Needle Murder
Oolong Dead
The Teaberry Strangler
Scones & Bones
Agony of the Leaves
Scrapbook Mysteries
Keepsake Crimes
Photo Finished
Bound for Murder
Motif for Murder
Frill Kill
Death Swatch
Tragic Magic
Fiber & BrimstoneSkeleton Letters
Postcards from the Dead
Cackleberry Club Mysteries
Eggs in Purgatory
Eggs Benedict Arnold
Bedeviled Eggs
Stake & Eggs
PUBLISHER
Berkley Prime Crime
ISBN 978-0-425-25557-5
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