Puddin' on the Blitz
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Publisher Description
The success of Magdalena Yoder's new Amish-Asian restaurant is threatened by murder in the deliciously quirky new Pennsylvania-Dutch mystery.
Although the culinary fare at Magdalena Yoder's new restaurant, Asian Sensations - a unique combination of Asian and Amish cuisine - is not to everyone's taste, the good citizens of Hernia are unanimously agreed that the desserts concocted by the restaurant chef, Barbara Hostetler, are to die for.
Not literally however. When a guest at the PennDutch Inn drops dead shortly after consuming a slice of Barbara's delicious Blitz torte, Magdalena finds herself arrested for murder. Did someone deliberately set her up? In order to clear her name and protect her nearest and dearest, Magdalena must identify a ruthless killer - before they strike again.
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In Myers's labored 21st Pennsylvania Dutch cozy (after 2016's Tea with Jam and Dread), Conservative Mennonite Magdalena Yoder, who lives with her husband, Gabriel Rosen (aka the Babester), and their two children in Hernia, Pa., receives a surprise visit from Hortense Gelato Hemphopple, the daughter of Wanda Sissleswitzer Hemphopple, who's in jail for trying to kill Magdalena. Hortense wants to reopen Wanda's now defunct restaurant, the Sausage Barn, and needs Magdalena's help. In the end, the two open Asian Sensation, with an eclectic menu of separate Amish and Asian cooking. The restaurant fails, but not before their signature pastry, Blitz Torte, poisons a guest staying at Magdalena's PennDutch Inn. Discovering that the poison pastry was meant for the Babester sends Magdalena out sleuthing. Page after page of caricatures, stereotypes, and bad puns pad the thin story line. Those who like broad humor ("what goes clop, clop, clop bang clop, clop, clop?' The answer: an Amish drive-by shooting") will best appreciate this one.
