The Pickled Piper
Mary Ellen Hughes

Pickled and Preserved Mystery #1
Berkley Prime Crime
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
Featuring: Piper Lamb
ISBN: 0425262456
EAN: 9780425262450
Kindle: B00FX7LVE4
Paperback / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Mystery Cozy

Piper's Return to Cloverdale Is Spoiled by Murder.

After her dreams of romance are crushed, Piper Lamb decides to pursue her dream of opening her own shop of pickles and preserves, called Piper’s Picklings, in the idyllic small town of Cloverdale. But she isn’t in town long before she encounters a barrelful of trouble.

The Cloverdale fair offers Piper a sweet opportunity to promote her business. With her new assistant, Amy, she sets up a booth centered around an eye-catching display of the ever-popular dills in an old-fashioned barrel of brine.

But things soon turn sour when fairgoers witness a fight between Amy’s boyfriend, Nate, and town council blowhard—and bagpipe player—Alan Rosemont. When Rosemont is found floating in Piper’s barrel, Nate becomes the prime murder suspect. With Amy’s boyfriend in a pretty pickle, there’s no time to dillydally. But as Piper searches for the real killer, she needs to be careful to preserve her own life; or she may end up a pickled Piper herself.