Treacherous Tart
Ellie Grant
Pocket Books, Oct 28 2014, $7.99
ISBN: 9781451689563
Maggie Grady and her widowed Aunt Clara own Pie in the Sky in
Durham, North Carolina. The business is
booming and both females have boyfriends.
Maggie met hers, reporter Ryan Summerour, when he worked on the homicide of her former New
York boss (see Plum Deadly); while Aunt Clara’s Donald Wickerson is
a steady customer.
Ryan writes an exposé on Donald suspected of killing several
wealthy wives in what seemed like coincidental accidents that enabled him to inherit
their money. Clara reads Ryan’s article
and rejects it as her Donald is sweet and kind and ergo no way a murdering
widower. When someone kills Donald in
the Pie in the Sky, Maggie knows that DPD will look closely at her beloved aunt
as the prime suspect just as they named her when her boss’ body was left by the
pie shop’s back door (see Plum Deadly). With Ryan at her side she investigates
the homicide only to seemingly find enough people with revenge motives to fill
Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The second Pie Shop mystery is an entertaining culinary cozy with
a dynamic witty lead sleuths, denier Aunt Clara and several viable suspects
filled with rage at the apparent uxoricide serial killer.
Team Grant provides the audience with a winning regional investigative whodunit.
Harriet Klausner
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