This was a very good book. The victim never got to eat her cookies and this drew me into the book like a magnet. The mystery was well constructed and as usual, the sleuth and her partners were up to their usual standards.I did not sense the culprit and there was a twist at the ending. I am enjoyi...
This one centers around Thanksgiving time. I think it's pretty bad that people that are murdered in the series seem to be eating Phyllis' food! I feel bad for her. She gets to have her grandson for a couple weeks and has a great time with him. He's so smart. Then someone dies and her a Carolyn fi...
Cozy mysteries that score 3/5 are different from others. They are the ones to watch. There were many things to like about Killer Crab Cakes, one of them being the seamless way the usual suspects (and I use the term loosely) segue into the brand new background of Fulton. The pacing in this book wa...
Phyllis Newsom has too much to do this holiday season. One of her house mates is getting married. There is a bridal shower to plan for Christmas Eve, and a wedding for New Year's Eve. To top it all off, her friend, Georgia, asks her to be part of the Christmas Jingle Bell Tour of Homes. On th...
This one started at the end...that was fun.Phyllis is in jail! And then we are back at the beginning at Eve's bridal shower. Much to Eve's surprise, everyone she invited showed up. There were many there unknown to Phyllis, Sam or Carolyn, so it was easy for a stranger to slip in and steal Eve's l...
3.5 I didn't "really like it" but I liked it more than a 3 star.This is a cozy mystery, #3 in the Delilah Dickinson series, and it delivers exactly what you expect. It was enjoyable, not to long, and not too messy. I read the first two books in the series and for me, those were better. I wou...
Retired teacher Phyllis and her housemates head to Dallas for the Texas State Fair. Several of them have decided to enter cooking contests (even the lone male, Sam, will try his hand at Spam cookery!), and Phyllis's favorite cooking show hostess will be there. Not only do they score some winner...
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...
Newsom. We need a nice, even layer.” “Of course,” Phyllis said, careful to barely move her lips as she spoke. Pauline came in while the mask was hardening on Phyllis’s face. The salon owner emerged from a door in the rear of the room. Phyllis suppos...
As Sam made the drive that afternoon, he was struck as he often was by how much open land still remained on both sides of the highway. If anybody had asked him twenty years earlier, he would have said that it would all be covered with strip malls and housing developments by now. Some of the old r...
Phyllis said. “Blake’s not an embezzler or a money launderer.” Carolyn crossed her arms over her chest. “Then where did the money come from?” “I assume he makes a good living at his job. They both drive fairly new cars. And five thousand’s not really that much, this day and age. It just seems lik...
If Felicity Prosper tried to come back, the police presence might scare her off again. Phyllis went upstairs to her bedroom to work on the column for A Taste of Texas on her laptop. Even though she hadn’t made the baklava macarons yet, she wanted to get a rough draft of th...
I couldn’t bring myself to believe that the meek little woman was attacking me, so I stayed where I was. Sure enough, Louise didn’t do anything except hug me and get the shoulder of my dress wet where her tears were falling. “Why, honey,” I managed to say, “what in the world is wrong?” She shook ...
Now that Carolyn had made peace with her, she was able to throw herself wholeheartedly into getting ready for the upcoming competition without feeling guilty about it. She tried to make the cookie into a giant pizza using coconut and a thin layer of jam for the topping, but the cookie was too sof...