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Book

Easter egg murder

Call Number

  • MYSTERY MEIE (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

Edition

First Kensington hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2026.

Physical Description

359 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary

Easter Egg Murder: "In Provence to visit her daughter, part-time reporter Lucy Stone is soaking up the atmosphere, even if it includes one Carole Capobianco, the empty-nester she encountered on the flight over. Not exactly two peas in a pod, they're both amused by the tale of a neighbor's chickens refusing to lay eggs. The decoy eggs he's set out to encourage the egg-centric hens are not only gorgeously Faberge-style, they're being stolen! That's confusing enough, but what's happened to the cook is deadly serious"--

Death By Another Easter Egg: "When an ambitious young reporter dies mid-meal at Hayley Powell's Bar Harbor restaurant, Hayley is horrified. Determined to save her eatery's reputation, Hayley scrambles to crack the case wide open like an egg, discovering that the victim was about to break a juicy story--one that a number of people (er, suspects) did not order off the menu. Which makes finding the killer more than devilishly hard..."--

An Eggy Way To Die: "Cleaning up after the Easter egg hunt in the Arborville park, friends Pamela and Bettina are startled to find something else hidden--the dead body of a local cookbook author, surrounded by broken shells and slippery yolks. The pair are far from hard-boiled detectives, but as they search for clues, they find that the whole case smells distinctly like rotten eggs..."--

Contents

  • Easter egg murder / Death by another Easter egg / An eggy way to die

Subjects