Mystery with Recipes #11
Kensington
May 2015
On Sale: April 28, 2015
368 pages ISBN: 1617733296 EAN: 9781617733291 Kindle: B00ONTS50Q Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Itβs Motherβs Day in sleepy Longely, New York, and this year, catering sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons help a friendβwho happens to be an overworked and underappreciated momβgo to extreme lengths to teach her family a lesson. But when a prank turns deadly, the Simmons sisters will have to cook up a plan to clear their palβs nameβ¦
Bernieβs college roommate Ellen Hadley is burning the candle at both ends. Sheβs grown a successful business baking treats for dogs and cats, and sheβs a dutiful wife and mother who somehow manages to fit all the cooking and cleaning into her busy schedule. But after her children forget her birthday and her husband forgets their anniversary, her expectations for a memorable Motherβs Day are understandably modest.
When Bernie jokingly suggests Ellen fake her own kidnapping to set her family straight, she never imagined her friend would actually go through with it. But when Ellenβs husband follows her phony ransom note to an out-of-the-way hotel, he finds the police taking her into custody after she discovers a dead body in her room. Ellen swears she doesnβt know the victim, but as police investigate her half-baked plans, they turn up more questions than answers.
Bernie canβt help but feel guilty for helping her friend concoct a recipe for disaster, so she and her sister Libby enlist the help of Ellenβs kids, and together, they must race to find the true culpritβbefore Motherβs Day is postponed indefinitelyβ¦