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Continue reading →: Red lentil & carrot soup
Ingredients 1 white onion, finely sliced 2 tsp olive oil 3 garlic cloves, sliced 2 carrots, scrubbed and diced 85g red lentils 1 vegetable stock cube, crumbled generous sprigs parsley, chopped (about 2 tbsp) plus a few extra leaves Method Put the kettle on to boil while you finely slice…
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Continue reading →: Death Distilled (Whisky Business Mystery #2) by Melinda Mullet
Award-winning photojournalist turned whisky distillery proprietress and amateur sleuth Abigail Logan returns in the charming follow-up to Single Malt Murder.It’s been three months since Abi Logan last checked in on Abbey Glen, the celebrated whisky distillery she inherited. With her oversize wheaten terrier, Liam, by her side, Abi returns to…
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Continue reading →: Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill
The forest of Pendle during the early seventeenth century: a wild, inaccessible corner of Lancashire where the ancient fear of demons and witches is still part of life – and death. When several local people die in mysterious circumstances, Squire Roger Nowell dismisses talk of witchcraft as superstition. But soon…
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Continue reading →: The Cracked Spine (Scottish Bookshop Mystery #1) by Paige Shelton
Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book and rare manuscript shop seeks a keenly intelligent investigator to assist us in our search for…
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Continue reading →: Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates (A Chocolate Covered Mystery #1) by Kathy Aarons
Best friends Michelle Serrano and Erica Russell are celebrating the sweet rewards of their combined bookstore and chocolate shop by hosting the Great Fudge Cook-off during the town’s Memorial Day weekend Arts Festival. But success turns bittersweet when Main Street’s portrait photographer is found dead in their store, poisoned by…
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Continue reading →: PoisonBuried Punch (Black Cat Cafe #6) by Lyndsey Cole
Halloween – parties, costumes, decorations, pranks and . . . murder? Annie Fisher and her friends at the Black Cat Café are right in on all the town’s Halloween excitement with everyone competing for the best couples costume award. But when a man turns up dead, a real-life Halloween murder…
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Continue reading →: RaspBuried Torte (Black Cat Cafe #5) by Lyndsey Cole
When renovations on an old house in Catfish Cove take a turn for the worse, Annie finds herself at odds with the new detective in town. Again. Not only did Annie find the body, but Detective Christy Crank seems to have a chip on her shoulder that she takes out…
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Continue reading →: Vegetarian goulash
Ingredients 2 medium carrots, peeled and sliced 2 large potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks 95g / 7 oz. of button mushrooms – around 20 mushrooms 1 x 325g / 11½ oz. can of sweetcorn – 260g / 9 oz. when drained 1 large courgette, diced 2 medium onions,…
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Continue reading →: Red Delicious Death (Orchard #3) by Sheila Connolly
Some baby-faced chefs, fresh out of cooking school, are looking to open a restaurant in Granford. They plan on using local foods-great news for city girl banker-turned orchard owner Meg Corey. Yet when one of the chefs is found dead, face-down in a farmer's pig wallow, plans come to a…
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Continue reading →: Twelve Angry Librarians (Cat in the Stacks #8) by Miranda James
Charlie is stressed out. The Southern Academic Libraries Association is holding this year's annual meeting at Athena College. Since Charlie is the interim library director, he must deliver the welcome speech to all the visiting librarians. And as if that weren't bad enough, the keynote address will be delivered by…
