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The Fatal Funnel Cake

The Fatal Funnel Cake, November 2013
Fresh-Baked Mystery #8
by Livia J. Washburn

NAL
Featuring: Phyllis Newsom
304 pages
ISBN: 0451416619
EAN: 9780451416612
Kindle: B00BDQ38ZY
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"A fatal funnel cake launches another investigation for Phyllis and her friends."

Fresh Fiction Review

The Fatal Funnel Cake
Livia J. Washburn

Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted January 14, 2014

Mystery Cozy | Mystery Culinary

Phyllis and Carolyn decide to enter some of their goodies in the contests at the State Fair when they learn that one of their favorite cooking shows will be there. Sam will be entering the Spam competition. Carolyn is planning to enter a cookie entry. Phyllis alone decides to try out for the funnel cake competition. The three of them work tirelessly to perfect their recipes. When the State Fair starts they all make the trek to stay in Dallas with Carolyn's cousin. Every one is enjoying the fair and their visit with Peggy, until the funnel cake competition starts. This year is the first time that the competition has been opened to amateurs. The professionals are not happy to have new competition. When Peggy wins with her recipe, she receives an invitation to be on the Joye of Cooking show. When Joye Jameson, the host, dies from eating her funnel cake, Peggy must determine who the real killer is. Peggy doesn't lack for suspects since Joye was not as popular with her crew as she was with her fans. Peggy comes close to being arrested for murder. She has no one inside the Dallas police department and must depend on her own wits to solve the mystery. If you like recipes with your mysteries, Livia J. Washburn is an author you will want to pick up. Her mysteries are well plotted with likable characters and so much good food on offer that it is hard not to get hungry as you read the books. I've been reading this series since the beginning and I always look forward to the newest book.

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SUMMARY

It’s time for the State Fair of Texas—and cooking contests galore! Fryers are heating up and stomachs are growling. But Phyllis Newsom had better watch out. Someone’s brought an appetite for murder....

Phyllis and her friends Carolyn and Sam are ready to whip up their best dishes and win some ribbons in Dallas. And they’re excited to learn that one of their favorite celebrity chefs—Joye Jameson of The Joye of Cooking—is broadcasting her TV show from the fair. When Phyllis’s funnel cake is picked as one of the best of that category, Joye invites her and the other finalists to prepare their delicious recipes live on the air.

But Phyllis’s moment in the spotlight is spoiled after Joye suffers a deadly allergic reaction from one bite of her funnel cake. Now she’s gone from top entry to top suspect. So in order to clear her name, Phyllis will have to turn up the heat on this investigation before the real killer slips through her fingers....


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