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A Catered Thanksgiving

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A dysfunctional family holiday turns deadly in this "sprightly" mystery (Publishers Weekly).

Whipping up Thanksgiving dinner can be stressful for anyone, but that goes double for the Field family. Everything has to be perfect, or they risk getting cut out of dominating patriarch Monty's lucrative will. That's where sisters Bernie and Libby's catering company, A Little Taste of Heaven, comes in. Surely with their lumpless mashed potatoes and to-die-for gravy, even the super-dysfunctional Fields can get along for one meal. But no one can dress up disaster when the turkey goes boom right in Monty's scowling face, sending him to that great dining room in the sky.
With everyone harboring their own cornucopia of secrets, discovering who wanted to carve up Monty won't be easy. Worse, the Field Mansion is draped under a snowstorm, trapping them with a killer determined to get more than his piece of the pie. Bernie and Libby will have to find out who the culprit is, fast, before the leftovers—and their chances of surviving—run out for good...

Includes tasty recipes!

"Fans of culinary cozies by Joanne Fluke and Diane Mott Davidson will enjoy discovering Crawford." –Library Journal
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 27, 2010
      In Crawford's sprightly seventh mystery with recipes featuring sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons (after 2009's A Catered Birthday Party), the proprietors of A Little Taste of Heaven, their Longely, N.Y., catering company, prepare a Thanksgiving feast for Scrooge-like fireworks manufacturer Monty Field and his family at the Field mansion. When Monty comes into the kitchen to test the roasting turkey, Bernie and Libby watch in horror as Monty taps the pop-up button in the bird's breast and the turkey explodes, blowing off the top of his head. Libby fears their stuffing made the turkey explode, but they soon learn that there was plenty of rivalry among the assembled family members, any one of whom had reason to want Monty dead. A heavy snowstorm ensures the suspects stay put as the sisters start to investigate. That their father, Sean, was on bad terms with the victim complicates their task. The action builds to more fireworks and a dramatic rescue.

    • Library Journal

      November 1, 2010

      In Crawford's seventh foray (after A Catered Birthday Party) into the wacky world of caterers Bernie and Libby Simmons, the gals are cooking Thanksgiving dinner for eight very snarky members of the Fields family in a Westchester mansion. When the turkey explodes in the face of patriarch Monty Field and a snowstorm strands the party, the sisters must find out which of the Fields wanted to kill Monty to avoid being cut out of his will. VERDICT Fans of culinary cozies by Joanne Fluke and Diane Mott Davidson will enjoy discovering Crawford. Her murder method is original, and the recipes are good.

      Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      October 1, 2010

      A Thanksgiving meal blows up in a diner's face, leaving the catering team on the hook for murder.

      Monty Field is too cheap to heat his dismal house, much less pay for a catered holiday dinner. So his equally repellent clan gets together and hires Bernie and Libby Simmons (A Catered Birthday Party, 2009, etc.) of A Little Taste of Heaven to prepare their Thanksgiving feast. Their business name turns out to be prophetic, since one tap on the turkey sends Monty to his eternal reward, leaving his trophy wife Lexus, his brothers Ralph and Perceval, his insecure children Geoff and Melissa, his pampered niece Greta and his nephews Bob and Audie to squabble endlessly over what he may have left whom in his will. A snowstorm strands the luckless Simmons sisters overnight in the Field homestead, where they overhear the family hatching plots to pin the murder on them, witness the reappearance of Monty's body on Lexus's bed, listen to various family members' complaints that other family members are trying to kill them and of course get locked in a bunker filled with fireworks. But they can't see a shadowy figure called "El Huron" (described in such cleverly gender-concealing language as "El Huron slid a gloved hand under the wool mask and scratched El Huron's cheek"), who may hold the key to Monty's gruesome death. Includes four recipes, three for Thanksgiving and one for Passover.

      The inane dialogue and preposterous plotting are unlikely to tempt even the most devoted fan of cook-me cozies.

      (COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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