Poaching Is Puzzling: A Cookbook Nook Mystery
by Daryl Wood Gerber
About Poaching is Puzzling
Poaching Is Puzzling: A Cookbook Nook Mystery
In the cutthroat world of crossword solvers, Jenna Hart will have to decipher some puzzling clues to catch a killer . . .
The annual crossword puzzle contest has drawn contestants from near and far to Crystal Cove, and Jenna watches in amazement as puzzle-themed books fly off the shelves at the Cookbook Nook. Her aunt Vera is putting up a sizable cash prize, and no one is more surprised than Jenna to discover there’s bad blood between Vera and the prominent puzzle constructor who’s acting as master of ceremonies. And when the puzzle guru has his throat slit while he’s out hiking, the police instantly peg Aunt Vera as the culprit.
Jenna can’t stand by and watch her aunt take the fall. It’s been clear since the victim arrived that he had contentious relationships with a number of the contestants—even going so far as to steal puzzles from some of them and claim them as his own—and Jenna’s certain one of them is the killer. Trading puzzle solving for crime solving, she sorts through the convoluted clues and cryptic suspects, hoping to nab the guilty party before they decide she’s a problem they’ll solve with another murder . . .
Includes mouthwatering recipes!
What I Thought:
I have read a few in the Cook Book Nook Series. I thought this one was pretty good. I am not a crossword puzzle enthusiast or cruciverbalist, so some of the information on the puzzles was foreign to me, but I learned some things about crossword puzzles from this book. The setting of this series is great and is a place I would like to visit. In this one, Aunt Vera' childhood friend, Wesley, a crossword puzzel designer, is in town for Crossword puzzle convention. When Jenna and her husband find Wesley's dead body, there is no shortage of suspects in his death, including Aunt Vera. Jenna has to put on her sleuth hat to find the killer. As always with Daryl's book, the writing was superb and he story flowed well. The plot was well thought out and believable. I thought I had the killer figured out a few times. The reveal was very exciting and while I wasn't exactly surprised, this was still a good ending. There were many twists and turns that led me to suspect the wrong person. I look forward to more in this series.
About Daryl Wood Gerber
Agatha Award–winning and nationally bestselling author Daryl Wood Gerber is the author of the Cookbook Nook Mysteries, the Fairy Garden Mysteries, the French Bistro Mysteries, the Cheese Shop Mysteries (as Avery Aames), the Aspen Adams Novels of Suspense, and two other stand-alone suspense thrillers. Little known facts about Daryl are that she’s jumped out of a perfectly good airplane, has hitchhiked around Ireland by herself, and has appeared on an episode of Murder, She Wrote. She loves to read, cook, and golf, and has a frisky Goldendoodle named Sparky who keeps her in line!
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Sounds like a book I will enjoy.
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