A Peach of a Murder
Livia J. Washburn

Fresh out of the oven: the first in a new series of baking mysteries. **Includes Recipes!

Being a murder suspect is the pits.

All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as pie—peach pie, of course, made with Parker County peaches, the sweetest in all of Texas. All year, that is, except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slipped through Phyllis’s fingers more than once....

Everyone’s a little shaken when the corpse of a no-good local turns up underneath a car in his own barn. But even as Phyllis engages in some amateur sleuthing, she won’t let it distract her from outbaking 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 does she think her cobbler will actually kill a judge. Now she’s suspected of murder, and she’s got to bake this case wide open.…

(A Fresh-Baked Mystery #1)
Signet, October 2006
ISBN #0451219740
272 pages Paperback
$6.99

Also by Livia J. Washburn:
The Gingerbread Bump-Off, November 2012
Wedding Cake Killer, November 2012
The Gingerbread Bump-Off, November 2011
The Pumpkin Muffin Murder, November 2011
The Pumpkin Muffin Murder, November 2010
Killer Crab Cakes, November 2010
The Christmas Cookie Killer, November 2009
Killer Crab Cakes, October 2009
The Christmas Cookie Killer, October 2008
Murder by the Slice, October 2007

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