GRUEL
AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT
Add a helping of “rollicking suspense” (The
Washington Post) to a “great sense of humor” (Murder Most Cozy), and
you’ve discovered Tamar Myers’s recipe for success. Her
irrepressible sleuth Magdalena Yoder has become a favorite among readers
with an appetite for crime. Because at Magdalena’s PennDutch
Inn, the desserts are drop-dead delicious, and the menu features murder.
When imprisoned
con man Clarence Webber meets his Maker after sampling a bowl of gruel
laced with arsenic, it’s cruel and unusual punishment indeed.
And since Magdalena provided the last meal, she’s convinced that one
of Clarence’s many visitors must have added the sinister secret
ingredient. But with the reputation of her establishment at stake,
Magdalena puts on her detective bonnet once again, determined to
discover who in Hernia poisoned the porridge.
But with a quartet of quirky female suspects who all claim to be
the victim’s widow, a bumbling sheriff with political
aspirations, and the appearance of a young hellion with a ton of
attitude who insists she is Magdalena’s daughter, this is one grueling
mystery the intrepid innkeeper may be sorry she ever tried to solve.
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