Murder Served Neat
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Cozy up to the bar as Michelle Hillen Klump pours another “sparkling cocktail of murder and mystery” (Amy Pershing).
Fans of Diane Mott Davidson and Lee Hollis will savor every delectable sip of this clever and utterly intoxicating cozy.
Reporter-turned-mixologist Samantha Warren has already thwarted one murder. Now, her world is shaken—definitely not stirred—once again as another killing throws her world into chaos.
Samantha is mixing up traditional cocktails at the German Texan Lodge’s Fourth of July festival—a gig she was roped into by her mother. But amidst the bratwurst and brass bands, trouble is brewing. Lodge loyalties are divided over a proposal to build a private, country-club-style tennis center on the lodge grounds. Her mom’s best friend Patty Davis is vehemently opposed to the plan. Society matron Angela Clawson is all for it. At the festival, they’re seen in a heated argument—and hours later, Angela is found dead, killed by one of the ceremonial shovels intended for the groundbreaking.
Samantha’s mother begs her to help clear her best friend’s name, but can she handle another murder case or will the whole investigation go bottoms up?
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Klump's spirited sequel to 2021's A Dash of Death finds journalist-turned-mixologist Samantha Warren enlisted to run a craft cocktail booth at the German Lodge's Fourth of July celebration in Highlands, Tex. While demand for Samantha's festive "red, white, and blue layered cocktail" is strong, tension among lodge members is at an all-time high over the plan to use part of the land earmarked to preserve German Texas heritage as the site of an exclusive, country club–style tennis center. When a public argument between Patty Davis, who's against the tennis center, and Angela Clawson, who's for the tennis center, becomes a physical altercation, Samantha worries that her community will never heal from the rift the tennis center has caused. After Angela is found dead at the bottom of the hole dug for the tennis stadium and the police name Patty the prime suspect, Samantha, fresh from solving her first murder, reluctantly agrees to help exonerate Patty, her mother's best friend. Klump matches realistic characters with convincing motives that induce doubt, distract, and engage along the way to the clever ending. Cozy fans will find plenty to like.
