★★★½
GENRE: Cozy Mystery
SUBJECT: recipe theft,
Setting: Jewel Bay, Montana
CHARACTERS: Erin Murphy, Francesca Murphy,Kim Caldwell, Claudette Randall, Dean Vincent, Linda Vincent, James Angelo, Chiara Phillips, Landon Phillips, Ted Redaway
DATE READ: March 8 - March 11
NO. OF PAGES: 304
Challenges: 75, Category, TIOLI, GastroCAT, US 50 State
SOURCE: Nook
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Erin Murphy comes home to Jewel Bay to help her mother and shortly after her return convinces the local merchants to plan a festival to start the summer season - Festa di Pasta.
The inaugural event is marred when a returning resident is found dead in the alley behind the party. It doesn't help Erin that the person was her mother's former employee who left with a married man. Fingers start to point in all directions - Erin's mother for possibly being angry a being left in the lurch, the married man, the angry wife - but the police seemed to think that Erin's mother is the prime suspect.
Enlisting her friends and family to help find the answers, Erin delves into the secrets of the town to clear her mother.
I love the character of Erin who is trying not only to help her mother but also her hometown - working to utilize and sell homegrown items as much as possible.
The author has woven a clever mystery while at the same time introduced us to some very interesting characters.
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