Beignets and Broomsticks
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Amid the Halloween festivities, one of the Beignet Cafe's customers comes to a sticky end in this entertaining cozy mystery…
It's Halloween, and café owner Maggie Miller's special pumpkin spice beignet promotion is proving popular at her café in Table Rock, Arizona, halfway between Sedona and nowhere. But the evening ends in disaster when Maggie discovers the body of one of her regular customers, strangled to death with an expensive cashmere scarf.
The late Nancy Alverson had tended to keep herself to herself—but what secrets was she hiding? And why had she been studying books on witchcraft?
Of one thing Maggie is certain: It was no witch who killed Nancy. Instead, someone has taken advantage of the spookiest night of the year to commit a brutal murder…
"[Maggie's] dotty internal monologues will amuse many cozy fans."—Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Ripley's lightweight third Maggie Miller mystery (after 2016's Beignets, Brides and Bodies), Maggie, the owner of Maggie's Beignet Caf in Table Rock, Ariz., decides to deliver the last of the pumpkin spice beignets from her store's Halloween party to regular customer Nancy Alverson. At the woman's apartment, Maggie finds Nancy strangled with a cashmere scarf, which she recognizes as belonging to stylish lawyer Veronica Vargas. Maggie doesn't have to work too hard as a sleuth: a mysterious package with a significant clue arrives in her mailbox, an unlikely request from Det. Mark Highsmith allows her to question Veronica, and her discovery of the villain is due purely to chance. Maggie's stream-of-consciousness narrative is filled with digressions, few of which have anything to do with the mystery and sometimes seem like nothing more than padding. Still, her dotty internal monologues will amuse many cozy fans.
