From Ladle to Grave
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Publisher Description
Could a body found in a graveyard be linked to a tragic murder twenty-five years ago? Tish Tarragon is plunged into a new case when a fundraising dinner in the local church hall leads to a dark discovery.
Literary caterer Tish Tarragon’s ‘heroines of literature’ fundraising dinner at St. Jude’s Episcopal Church is a resounding success. But as Tish walks through the graveyard to lock up the church hall, she takes a tumble . . . over a dead body.
Retired Sheriff Gadsden Carney has been murdered. Not only that, he’s lying upon the Honeycutt family plot. Six-year-old Daisy Honeycutt was killed twenty-five years ago in a case that rocked Hobson Glen. Sheriff Carney was in charge of the investigation – and his murder looks suspiciously similar to young Daisy’s.
Tish and Sheriff Reade discover that Gadsden was looking into the Honeycutt case again. Could his death be linked to Daisy’s murder all those years ago? Her killer died behind bars. Or so everyone thought . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Meade's clever fifth Tish Tarragon mystery (after The Curse of the Cherry Pie) finds Tish, the owner of Cookin' the Books Café in Hobson Glen, Va., cutting through the cemetery on her way to the carpark after catering a Women in Literature–themed dinner for the Junior League. While weaving her way between the tombstones, she trips over the body of retired sheriff Gadsden Carney lying on the grave of Daisy Honeycutt, a six-year-old who was murdered 25 years earlier. The current sheriff, Clemson Reade, a protégé of Carney's, discovers that Carney was investigating the girl's death and intended to reopen the case, even though Daisy's mother had confessed to the crime and subsequently died in prison. Similarities in the manner of death of both victims lead Reade to believe they're related. Reade hires Tish as a consultant for the sheriff's office, and the two team up to solve both cases. Amid a lively cast of witnesses and suspects, Meade keeps the reader guessing to the end. Established fans and newcomers alike will adore this cozy.
