Ginger Snapped
A Spice Shop Mystery
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
Publisher Description
Murder comes well-seasoned in Ginger Snapped, Gail Oust's newest novel in the charming, "must-read" (Publishers Weekly) Spice Shop mystery series.
Piper Prescott and Police Chief Wyatt McBride might have gotten off on the wrong foot but, over the past year, their interactions have evolved into a friendship of sorts. And when the body of Shirley Randolph is found floating in a fishing hole, their relationship reaches entirely new territory.
Shirley, the town's Realtor of the Year, was also Wyatt's suspected romantic interest, and now the residents of Brandywine Creek are speculating that Wyatt is responsible for her death. As the town council moves to suspend the handsome lawman, Piper springs into action to save his reputation and possibly his freedom. She enlists the aid of her BFF, Reba Mae Johnson, along with Wyatt himself, to help solve the puzzle and find Shirley’s real killer.
Pointing them toward high-powered real estate tactics and possible affairs, the investigation soon becomes personal when Piper's shop, Spice It Up!, is burglarized, and she’s forced off the road late one night, narrowly escaping serious injury. Realizing that she must be close to uncovering the truth, and that the evidence against Wyatt is no longer circumstantial, Piper resorts to drastic measures to prevent a grave miscarriage of justice.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Oust deliciously upends a cozy trope amateur sleuth vs. professional cop in her fifth Spice Shop mystery (after 2016's Curried Away). Fortyish, divorced Piper Prescott offers "anise to za'atar" and sage advice at Spice It Up!, her Brandywine, Ga., shop, but when murder's the matter, detect she must to the perpetual annoyance of police chief Wyatt McBride. Now he needs her: realtor Shirley Randolph's naked body is found in the fishing hole behind his house. They were seen sharing chili fries; suddenly he's a suspect. Even before the death is tagged homicide, he's suspended without pay. Interim chief Sgt. Beau Tucker likes the top badge for the crime and only halfheartedly investigates. But Piper would bet her last ginger rhizome that gorgeous, widowed Wyatt is innocent. Between deliveries of goulash and pizza to his house, she courts danger stalking likely villains with sidekick Reba Mae Johnson. And she risks social opprobrium and her teenage daughter's wrath by agreeing to chaperone the senior prom and asking Wyatt to escort her. Their prom date is hilarious and touching. Ginger lore and simple recipes provide lagniappe.