Secrets
and Pies
by Jenny Kales
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Self Published
Release Date - October
19, 2017
Approximately 200 pages
Book will be up on Amazon and other
retail sites soon.
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of Callie’s
Kitchen! Greek-American restaurateur Callie Costas faces down another
killer in the small waterfront town of Crystal Bay, Wisconsin.
Recipes included!
Summertime in Crystal Bay means tourist season for
Calliope “Callie” Costas, owner of Callie’s Kitchen, a
Greek-meets-Midwest from-scratch eatery. Business is booming but so
is the stress. Callie can barely keep up with the demand for her
famous summer fruit pies and savory Greek delicacies, plus she’s
agreed to bake dozens of “pitas” for the annual Greek Fest.
When Callie is asked to deliver cast party treats
for a Murder Mystery Night at the historic Harris House, it seems
like a welcome break from her hot stove. That is, until she finds
herself an unwilling player in yet another suspicious death. Worse
yet, the victim is a family friend and graduate student working on a
project involving Crystal Bay’s colorful past.
Before long, a motley crew of suspects makes things
as juicy as the succulent berries strewn around Callie’s Kitchen.
And that’s not all Callie’s got on her plate. Add family
obligations, a deepening romance with a local detective and
unexpected personnel problems to the mix. One thing’s for sure:
Callie’s got the recipe for a long, hot summer!
SECRETS AND PIES is the third installment in the
Callie’s Kitchen Mystery series.
Review: Secrets and Pies is book three in The Callie's Kitchen mystery series. I'm jumping head first into this series and I'm loving it. I'm also going to be going back and reading the first two books "On The Chopping Block" and "Spiced and Iced"
When Callie was at the murder mystery dinner, she encountered her ex's new wife Raine, and Raine's actions reminded me of Barbara Jean on Reba. She seemed to want to be friends
I also love that the family is Greek, because one of my favorite cozy series, Sofie Metropolis, is about a Greek family. Oh and all the descriptions of Greek food made me so hungry. If you can finish this book without wanted some spanikopita, you'll have more willpower than I.
When Callie finds her daughter's favorite teacher dead, while waiting for her ex to drop Olivia off. Things start to get interesting. Then her right hand man in her restaurant, Max, has to return to the family farm to help his injured father.
Callie keeps herself busy working for Crystal Bay's concert series and for a church festival. She's up to her neck in goodies while trying to find out who killed Holly.
There's also an interesting subplot involving Holly's research for Grad school and F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Gilded Age homes on the lake.
This was a fast paced mystery, with Callie having to do an awful lot along with trying to solve the murder. The ending was such a surprise to me too. I love when mystery author can point you in one direction for a killer and then bring someone totally out of left field. This was a great cozy.
Rating: 5 flowers
Review: Secrets and Pies is book three in The Callie's Kitchen mystery series. I'm jumping head first into this series and I'm loving it. I'm also going to be going back and reading the first two books "On The Chopping Block" and "Spiced and Iced"
When Callie was at the murder mystery dinner, she encountered her ex's new wife Raine, and Raine's actions reminded me of Barbara Jean on Reba. She seemed to want to be friends
I also love that the family is Greek, because one of my favorite cozy series, Sofie Metropolis, is about a Greek family. Oh and all the descriptions of Greek food made me so hungry. If you can finish this book without wanted some spanikopita, you'll have more willpower than I.
When Callie finds her daughter's favorite teacher dead, while waiting for her ex to drop Olivia off. Things start to get interesting. Then her right hand man in her restaurant, Max, has to return to the family farm to help his injured father.
Callie keeps herself busy working for Crystal Bay's concert series and for a church festival. She's up to her neck in goodies while trying to find out who killed Holly.
There's also an interesting subplot involving Holly's research for Grad school and F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Gilded Age homes on the lake.
This was a fast paced mystery, with Callie having to do an awful lot along with trying to solve the murder. The ending was such a surprise to me too. I love when mystery author can point you in one direction for a killer and then bring someone totally out of left field. This was a great cozy.
Rating: 5 flowers
About the Author
Award-winning writer Jenny Kales is the author of
The Callie's Kitchen Mystery series. Though she's worked as a
writer and journalist for years, fiction writing is her first love
and her marriage into a Greek-American Midwestern family inspired The
Callie's Kitchen mysteries, featuring Calliope Costas, food business
owner and amateur sleuth. The setting of the story, "Crystal
Bay," is inspired by a favorite family vacation spot - Wisconsin's beautiful Geneva Lakes. Kales is an avid reader, cook and baker and she's addicted to mystery TV, especially anything on Masterpiece Mystery or BBC America. She lives just outside of Chicago with her husband, two daughters and one cute but demanding Yorkshire terrier.
Website www.jennykales.wordpress.com,
Twitter https://twitter.com/Jenny_Kales,
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/dashboard,
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