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Pies and Prejudice
A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery
Pies and Prejudice: A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery. Berkley Prime Crime. Jul. 2012. c.304p. ISBN 9780425251409. pap. $7.99. M
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Ella Mae leaves her ailing marriage and lonely New York City life to seek comfort in her idyllic hometown of Havenwood, GA. A gifted baker, she decides that a pie shop is her destiny. There's magic in her culinary gifts: her freshly baked goods pick up on her moods (sad, happy, etc.), and then the eaters absorb the mood. Tragedy strikes when the local equine veterinarian is murdered, and Ella Mae's rolling pin is the weapon. Our sleuth scrambles to identify the murderer by working with the victim's son, renewing her friendship with a local firefighter, and baking pies that make people want to tell her secrets.
VERDICT A little play on Jane Austen with a nod to Arthurian legend gets this new series from veteran author Adams (she also writes as J.B. Stanley and cowrites as Lucy Arlington) off to an enchanted start. A sensory delight for those who like a little magic with their culinary cozies; think Bailey Cates's recent Brownies and Broomsticks.
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