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Title details for A Catered Tea Party by Isis Crawford - Available

A Catered Tea Party

A Mystery With Recipes

#12 in series

by Isis Crawford
Susie Berneis
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Everyone in Longely is talking about Blue House, an art complex that will bring the town a theater, an art gallery, and even a restaurant and coffee bar. But they're less than enthusiastic about Ludvoc Zeb Zalinsky, the self-made billionaire who's funding the complex. The night of the benefit arrives and Westchester's finest show up in droves. But just when it seems the production is going according to plan, Zeb lifts an electric tea kettle, clutches his chest, and falls to the floor in fittingly dramatic fashion. The kettle shorted out and his pacemaker malfunctioned-but it doesn't take long for police to decide that this seemingly random accident was actually cold-blooded murder, making another case for Bernie and Libby.

  • Creators

  • Series

    A Mystery with Recipes

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 30, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666587623
      • File size: 258516 KB
      • Duration: 08:58:34

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 18, 2016
      Murder’s surely on the menu when Bernie and Libby Simmons agree to make pierogies for abusive director Ludvoc Zalinsky in Crawford’s hectic 12th mystery featuring the catering sisters (after 2015’s A Catered Mother’s Day). Zalinsky pours money into his Alice in Wonderland production at the Blue House arts center in Longely, N.Y., but buys only resentment. On opening night, someone steals the $2 million Chinese teapot he insisted be a prop. And the thief—or another miscreant—hotwires an electric kettle, fatally shocking Zalinsky. Daughters of retired police chief Sean Simmons, the intrepid sisters must outsmart his bumbling successor, Lucas “Lucy” Broadbent, to exculpate their play director pal, Caspar Cumberbatch. When not sleuthing or cooking, they tangle with Sean’s 50ish girlfriend, Michele. The family scenes resonate, but the murder thread quickly frays. Crawford’s recipes, usually plot-related, include semolina gnocchi and a coffee-filter clotted cream. Some testers may find that the cream comes together more sweetly than the story. Agent: Evan Marshall, Evan Marshall Agency.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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