Piper can't get into the excitement flying around Cloverdale about the Italian soccer team coming to town. But she won't be passing up the opportunity to be part of the events.
When the soccer team arrives, not everyone is excited to see Raffaele Conti, the team manager. Conti spent a year in Cloverdale in high school and managed to make more than a few enemies. One of them is Piper's dill supplier, Gerald Standley. Standley is also one of the biggest supporter of the Cloverdale All Stars.
When Conti is found dead, Piper is asked by several people to help find the killer. Afraid of losing the fresh dill her provides and believing in Gerald's innocence, Piper sets out to find the truth.
The more she learns about Conti, the clearer it is why someone wanted him dead. He was a despicable character who left people damaged in his wake.
The identity of the killer is a surprise and leaves the readers a little sad as they learn the motive. Fans will love the recipes as well as the mystery.
From the author of The Pickled Piper comes another Pickled
and
Preserved Mystery...
Piper Lamb knows how to make fruits and vegetables keep
for months.
Unfortunately, itβs the people around her who are expiring
too soonβ¦
After her fiancΓ© left her, Piper came to Cloverdale to
rebuild her
life and open up her shop, Piperβs Picklings, to sell
pickles and
preserves. When her ex decides to drop in for a visitβjust
as things
are heating up between her and a local Christmas tree
farmerβPiper
finds herself in a jam.
But there are other visitors to worry aboutβ¦
An Italian soccer team is set to play the Cloverdale All-
Stars in an
exhibition game. Their manager, Raffaele Conti, was a
bitter rival
of Piperβs dill supplier, local farmer Gerald Standley.
After Conti
is found dead in Standleyβs field, Piper must work to
clear Geraldβs
name and find out who relished killing Raffaele before the
town is
soured by another death.
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