"Stir the clues and figure out the mystery"
Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted January 18, 2015
Mystery Cozy | Mystery Culinary
Jenna moved back to her home town to help out her aunt
Vera.
It is the Halloween season, one of Jenna's favorite times
of
the year. The town always puts on a big celebration.
Her Aunt Vera is one of the Winsome Witches. The
morning after one of their meetings, the head witch is
found
dead. Many people witness the fight between the head
witch
and her daughter. But did the daughter really kill her
mother?
Jenna is not so sure about the daughter doing it. So her
sleuth personality kicks in. Along with her Aunt Vera they
check out every circumstance of this murder. Through all
of this, Vera losses her powers to forecast the future.
However, for some reason, Jenna's seen to come to life.
I really enjoyed Stirring the Plot by Daryl Wood Gerber.
In
the story line, Gerber combines not only the workings of a
cookbook store, but also the feeling of living in a small
town. Not only do we learn about the funny characters but
also what makes them all come together to figure out a
crime.
In STIRRING THE PLOT, Gerber talks a lot about the recipes
that
Jenna attempts to make, and these recipes can be found at
the end of the book. Having the recipes included is one
of the things I really enjoy with culinary mysteries. I
could almost taste the food, with the
descriptions that Daryl Wood Gerber gives. Now that I have
finished STIRRING THE PLOT it's time to get cooking!
SUMMARY
3rd in nationally bestselling Cookbook Nook Mystery
series. Halloween in Crystal Cove, California, is a big deal,
involving a spooky soiree where the Winsome Witches, a
fund-
raising group, gather to open up their purse strings and
trade superstitions. But party magicians, fortune-
tellers,
and herbalists are only the beginning of this recipe for
disaster... Jenna Hart has packed The Cookbook Nook chock-
full of everything from ghostly texts to witchy potions
in
anticipation of the annual fund-raiser luncheon. But
there's one unexpected addition to the menu: murder. When
the Head Priestess of the Winsome Witches is found dead
under mysterious circumstances, there's no logical answer
and plenty of blame to go around. With her aunt, Vera,
unable to call on her ability to foresee the future,
Jenna
will have to use more than just sleight of hand and a few
magic tricks to conjure up the truth...
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Comments
1 comment posted.
Re: Stir the clues and figure out the mystery
Sounds great thanks for the review,
Penney
(Penney Wilfort 9:21pm August 4, 2016)
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