Murder by the Slice (Fresh-Baked Mystery Series #2) by Livia J. Washburn
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- Pub. Date: September 2007
- 272pp
- Sales Rank: 17,444
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 2007
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 272pp
- Sales Rank: 17,444
- Series: Fresh-Baked Mystery Series, #2
- ISBN-13: 9780451222503
- ISBN: 0451222504
Synopsis
At this year's school carnival fund-raiser, the obnoxious president of the Parent Teacher Organization is found stabbed through the heart with Phyllis Newsom's own knife, with traces of incriminating frosting. Clearing her name will be no piece of cake...
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a tasty culinary mystery.by harstan
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September 13, 2007: In Weatherford, Texas, four members of the Retired Teachers Association sell baked cakes as a scholarship fund raiser. When Loving Elementary School Parent-Teacher organization member Marie Tyler comes by their table, she asks the quartet to help her with the carnival that she is chairing. As Phyllis Newsom is about to say sorry, but too busy, Dolly Williamson says yes that they will help with the food.--------------- The ladies agree to have a food contest but all entries must be healthy. However, as the RTO members meet the PTO leader dictatorial Shannon Dunstan, each wants to say no as the woman is outrageous, nasty, and demanding Phyllis believes that?s her better qualities. Still they honor their commitment, but at the gala, someone kills Shannon using a knife that Phyllis believes is one she used on her cake. Besides her fingerprints, telltale frosting is on Shannon?s body. Knowing that she is now the prime suspect, Phyllis begins her own inquiry only it seems to her that the entire state of Texas loathed the late nasty martinet and alarge segment had the opportunity to kill her but who was willing to actually stab her while facing her remains a mystery.---------------- MURDER BY THE SLICE is A PEACH OF A MURDER due to the retired chick lit asides by the heroine whether she sells cake at Wal-Mart or Loving Elementary or during her investigation. The whodunit is fun and the recipes mouthwatering. Putting aside the assumption that the intelligent retired JHS history teacher would hire an expert investigator, it is her bumbling amateur sleuth antics that cook up a tasty culinary mystery.-------------- Harriet Klausner
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