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- Set in a quaint Chesapeake Bay town, the latest novel in Maya Corrigan's Five-Ingredient Mysteries brings back café manager Val Deniston and her recipe columnist grandfather - a sleuthing duo that shares a Victorian house, a love of the culinary arts, and a talent for catching killers.
- About the Author: Maya Corrigan is the author of the Five-Ingredient Mystery Series, featuring a café manager and her kooky grandfather with five suspects, five clues, and five ingredient recipes in each installment.
- 304 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective
- Series Name: Five-Ingredient Mystery
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"Set in a quaint Chesapeake Bay town, the latest novel in Maya Corrigan's Five-Ingredient Mysteries brings back café manager Val Deniston and her recipe columnist grandfather - a sleuthing duo that shares a Victorian house, a love of the culinary arts, and a talent for catching killers."--Provided by publisher.Book Synopsis
Set in a quaint Chesapeake Bay town, the latest novel in Maya Corrigan's Five-Ingredient Mysteries brings back café manager Val Deniston and her recipe columnist grandfather - a sleuthing duo that shares a Victorian house, a love of the culinary arts, and a talent for catching killers. At the site of a fatal blaze, Val's boyfriend, a firefighter trainee, is shocked to learn the victim is known to him, a woman named Jane who belonged to the local Agatha Christie book club--and was rehearsing alongside Val's grandfather for an upcoming Christie play being staged for charity. Just as shocking are the skeletal remains of a man found in the freezer. Who is he and who put him on ice? After Val is chosen to replace Jane in the play, the cast gathers at their house to get to work--and enjoy Grandad's five-ingredient parfaits--but all anyone can focus on is the bizarre real-life mystery. When it's revealed that Jane's death was due to something other than smoke inhalation, Val and Grandad try to retrace her final days. As they dig into her past life, their inquiry leads them to a fancy new spa in town--where they discover that Jane wasn't the only one who had a skeleton in the cooler . . . Includes delicious five-ingredient recipes!Review Quotes
Praise for Maya Corrigan's Five-Ingredient Mysteries "This is a fun romp in an equally fun setting. If you are a fan of the genre or of mystery conferences--or both --this book should be right up your alley." --Mystery Scene on Bake Offed "A mystery fan fest makes the perfect place for murder...Granddad is a hoot, and a clever method of faking an alibi adds to the fun." --Kirkus Reviews on Bake Offed
"With a fun cast of characters and plenty of suspects, this is a great holiday story-- just don't eat any gingerbread men from ghosts!" --Parkersburg News & Sentinel on Gingerdead Man
"[A] feisty, quirky whodunit it." --Woman's World on Crypt Suzette "Grandad is a hoot to live with, and his jobs as a food reviewer and part-time detective provide endless possibilities for fun and murder...Charming." --Kirkus Reviews on Crypt Suzette "With a seasonal setting and quirky characters, this will be a treat to cozy fans." --The Parkersburg News & Sentinel on Crypt Suzette "This was an intricately plotted murder mystery with all sorts of interesting twists that made the matter of Suzette's death a real whodunit." --Criminal Element on Crypt Suzette "Corrigan keeps her simple mixture of pleasant characters, murder, and recipes in the oven." --Kirkus Reviews on Final Fondue "Fans of puzzle mysteries will enjoy the opportunity to sift through the clues to solve the puzzle." --San Diego Fiction Examiner on Scam Chowder "Suspects abound and the puzzle solution is deftly handled in this charming cozy...With recipes included, this is definitely a starter for fans of Diane Mott Davidson, Lou Jane Temple, and Virginia Rich." --Library Journal on By Cook or by Crook
About the Author
Maya Corrigan is the author of the Five-Ingredient Mystery Series, featuring a café manager and her kooky grandfather with five suspects, five clues, and five ingredient recipes in each installment. Corrigan lives near Washington, D.C., close to the setting for her series, Maryland's Eastern Shore. A winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense, she has published essays on drama and short stories as well as taught courses in writing, detective fiction, and American literature at Georgetown University and NOVA community college. Please visit her online at MayaCorrigan.com.Dimensions (Overall): 6.4 Inches (H) x 4.2 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)
Weight: .3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 304
Series Title: Five-Ingredient Mystery
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Mystery & Detective
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
Theme: Cozy, Culinary
Format: Paperback
Author: Maya Corrigan
Language: English
Street Date: October 24, 2023
TCIN: 88503032
UPC: 9781496734594
Item Number (DPCI): 247-47-8930
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Val is Trapped in Another Mystery
4 out of 5 stars
- 2 years ago
Val’s Grandfather has joined a local reader’s production of Agatha Christie’s classic play The Mousetrap. The cast is just planning to read the play for the audience instead of doing a full production with a set and movement on stage. However, a house fire kills the woman who was going to play the lead. Even stranger, the firefighters find a dead body hidden in a freezer elsewhere in the house. Val is drafted to fill the dead woman’s place in the play, and it gives Val and her grandfather perfect access to others who knew the victim. What will the duo uncover? You don’t need to have seen The Mousetrap to enjoy this book. In fact, it goes out of its way to not spoil the play but still mentioning anything the story is mirroring. But fans of the play will get an added kick out the way it is included. The plot is strong as always with plenty of suspects and clues to keep us guessing. I did feel the climax was a little weak, but the everything is still explained satisfactorily. The characters are as good as always, and I loved seeing some of the series regulars grow. And we get five more five-ingredient recipes at the end. If you enjoy a well plotted mystery, you’ll be glad you picked up this book.