The Kielbasa Killer
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Lydia Wienewski discovers that her family's ever-popular kielbasa isn't the only thing that's been pricked when she finds a body in this entertaining and smartly written cosy.
A Woman's World Book Club Pick
Lydia Wienewski can't wait to open her dream Polish-American cafe and bakery in Cheektowaga. But while her father recovers from a stroke, Lydia helps manage the family business, Wienewski's Weiners & Meats, over the busy Easter holiday. She's soon preparing a huge amount of their famous kielbasa - and dealing with her father's rogue meat supplier, Louie McDaniel.
When Lydia finds Louie dead next to the kielbasa in the family's private smoker, her great-great-grandpa's antique sausage pricker sticking out of his neck, her problems are about to get much worse - especially as she seems to be the police's prime suspect! Who would commit such a terrible act? Lydia quickly enlists the help of her irrepressible grandma Mary to find out. Can the sleuthing duo catch the killer and prove Lydia's innocence before more grisly deaths occur?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1982, this unremarkable cozy from Krotow (the Shop 'Round the World series) sees 29-year-old Lydia Wienewski returning to her Upstate New York hometown with dreams of opening her own bakery after a stint at pastry school in Canada. Instead, her father's recent stroke means she has to take the reins at the family business, Wienewski's Wieners & Meats. With Easter around the corner and Wienewski's smoked kielbasa a holiday staple for the town's Polish community, Lydia braces for the rush; to add to her stress, her meat supplier is hassling her for payment her father owed, and she suspects an employee might be stealing money. When the meat supplier ends up dead in the Wienewski family's backyard smoke house with an antique sausage pricker protruding from his neck, local police suspect Lydia and her Grandma Mary, a crime show aficionado. To clear their names, the duo teams up to investigate on their own. Krotow includes enticing recipes for cheesecake and traditional Polish coffee cakes, but her simple, linear plot offers no surprises. Cozy fans have plenty of better options.
