A Catered Mother's Day
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
A mom feels taken for granted—but she’s got bigger problems when she’s taken in for murder: “Engaging…cozy fans will find plenty to like.”—Publishers Weekly
It’s Mother’s Day in sleepy Longely, New York, and catering sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons’ friend Ellen is an overworked, underappreciated mom who’s fed up. She’s a dutiful wife and mother while also running her pet-treat business—yet her birthday and anniversary have both been forgotten.
But when she tries to fake her own kidnapping as a prank to get back at her family, things go very wrong. The phony ransom note directed her husband to come to a local motel, but when he gets there, Ellen’s being arrested for murdering the man whose body is in her room. She insists she doesn’t even know him—but her staged abduction doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the police. Now Bernie and Libby will have to cook up a plan to clear their pal’s name…
Includes original recipes for you to try!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With Mother's Day looming, Ellen Hadley, the disgruntled wife and mother at the center of Crawford's engaging, dialogue-driven 11th mystery with recipes (after 2014's A Catered Fourth of July), decides to get back at her ungrateful husband, Bruce, and two negligent sons, Ryan and Ethan, by faking her own kidnapping. A ransom note is supposed to lure Bruce to the Hudson Valley's rundown Riverview Motel, where Ellen is hiding out, but the discovery of a dead man in her motel room instead brings the police, who suspect Ellen of killing the man. Ryan and Ethan ask their mother's college roommate, caterer Bernie Simmons, and Bernie's sister, Libby, for help in exonerating her. A series of murders in Longley, N.Y., leads the sisters, who are amateur sleuths, to believe that Ellen and Ellen's partner in her dog-biscuit business, Lisa, have secrets that connect them to each victim. Cozy fans will find plenty to like.
