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MULLED MURDER

Mulled Murder, November 2014
Pennyfoot Hotel #21
by Kate Kingsbury

Berkley
Featuring: Cecily Sinclair Baxter
304 pages
ISBN: 0425262928
EAN: 9780425262924
Kindle: B00FX7LXA6
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"Kate Kingsbury's last mystery in the Pennyfoot series is a great ending to her beloved story."

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MULLED MURDER
Kate Kingsbury

Reviewed by Teresa Cross
Posted January 27, 2015

Mystery Cozy

In the Pennyfoot Hotel mysteries, MULLED MURDER written by Kate Kingsbury is the last book in this series that will leave the reader with a warm feeling for the road ahead for all the characters. Kate Kingsbury has left a beautiful closing to such a beloved series that all her fans can appreciate. In this cozy mystery there is again another bound with the Christmas Curse that the folks at Pennyfoot Hotel (Or as it should be called Country Club) with murder and the mystery surrounding it.

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There is a dead body found on the shore near the Pennyfoot Hotel and Cecily hopes that there are no connections to her establishment. However later she finds he is a detective that is staying at Pennyfoot and she is baffled at what he could have been investigating. In the mean time she is preparing for Christmas and a wedding for one of her staff members along with the plumbing that stops working. A new plumber shows up, leaving her at her wits end about what would happen next. Between looking for clues and trying not to disturb the guest with everything that has been happening, Cecily promises her husband that she will let him in on what she finds and include him on her part of the investigating. Hopefully it does not cost her what she loves the most.

Kate Kingsbury adds life to such wonderful characters, each with their own vivacious personality. With all these characters, you find yourself gazing at each one trying to see who could be the culprit in this English mystery. Easy reading with such an entertaining storyline. It is one that you can enjoy even way past the holidays.

MULLED MURDER written by Kate Kingsbury will have you by the fire with the warm reading of a fantastic story that if you haven't yet, you soon will be checking out the others in the series.

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SUMMARY

This holiday season at the Pennyfoot, the head count is downβ€”but the body count is up… With one of her housemaids leaving to get married, Cecily Sinclair Baxter wants nothing more for Christmas than some good help. Instead of visions of sugar plums, she’s calling the plumber to deal with flooded bathrooms. Then there’s the surly new janitor, who acts like he got coal in his stocking. But as Cecily scrambles to hire and train new staff in time for the holidays, one of her guests is beyond help. Gerald Evans is found stabbed to death on the beach, and Cecily soon discovers he was a private investigator from London looking into dark doings involving the Pennyfoot. Who among the staff or guests was being pursued, and what secret drove that person to cold-blooded murder?

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