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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451219749
ISBN number: 0451219740
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: October 03, 2006
Publishing house: Signet
Sale Popularity Level: 79377
Studio: Signet
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Fresh out of the oven: the very first in a new series of baking mysteries.
Includes recipes!
All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as peach pie-except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slipped through Phyllis's fingers more than once...
Everyone's a little shook up when the corpse of a no-good local turns up underneath a car in a local garage. But even as Phyllis engages in some amateur sleuthing, she won't let it distract her from out-baking her rivals and winning the upcoming Peach Festival contest.
She and all the other contestants guard their secret, original recipes with their lives-and talk a whole lot of trash. With her unusual Spicy Peach Cobbler, Phyllis hopes to knock 'em dead. But that's just an expression-never in her wildest dreams did she think her cobbler would actually kill a judge. Now, she's suspected of murder-and she's got to bake this case wide open.
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I agree with another reviewer; it's hard to get into a book if you hate the characters, and believe me these characters are despise worthy. I purchased all the books in the series w/o reading one because of my usual love of all cozies. I spent the money so I felt I had to read them all. I kept thinking...it was the very first book it will get better...it's only the second book it will get better. Well after reading them all it didn't get better. The only way it could get better is if as suggested by another reviewer the main characters were killed. There are so many great series unfortunately this is not one of them
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So far so good as far as the very first in a new series goes. The characters need more fleshing out, but that will come as the series develops. I look forward to reading the subsequent title in the series.
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this was my very first freshed baked mystery book , it was okay took me a week and a half just to finish this book
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While I enjoyed the story, and the author is a good, descriptive writer, I just cannot thoroughly get into it as all of the main characters, except for Sam, grate on my nerves. You have Phyllis, the busybody sleuth who noses in where she doesn't belong. And her goody-goodiness just gets annoying. Then you have Carolyn, a "supposed" friend, who is nothing but rude and blunt, and nastily competitive...with a friend like this, who needs enemies? I couldn't even stand the old hag who lived with them, Mattie.
It's hard to get into a book when you hate every single person in it. I found myself wishing that the main characters would start dying, instead of the townspeople in the background. Hmmph.
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This is a promising new mystery series with a really unique cast of characters and an old-fashioned appeal. It's the perfect mystery series to recommend to your mom or grandmother, as the main characters are mainly active, retired seniors. The town of Weatherford, Texas is very small, which lends itself to a more intimate story and colorful, local characters. The main character, Phyllis is a former teacher who now runs a boarding house. Her son Mike is a local police officer and that is her link to the police and inside information. In this particular story, Phyllis is preparing for the upcoming Peach Festival and baking contest; the town goes into a frenzy when a prominent local man drops dead at the festival. This is actually the second of two deaths in the town, so Phyllis becomes suspicious and starts to wonder whether the deaths were murder and, if they are linked. Phyllis is a very likeable woman and so were the cast of characters, including her new boarder, Sam. The plot was quite believable (with the exception of the ending, perhaps), and Phyllis wasn't 'forced' into her role as an investigator - it all seemed pretty natural. Sure, the book doesn't have the romance or 'hipness' that some other series seem to have but, it is a well written mystery nonetheless. The peach pies and cobblers made me plenty hungry too, and I definitely want to read the subsequent few in the series to see if they are as entertaining.
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