Saturday, August 04, 2018

July's Books


Feliz Navidead by Ann Myers

Chef Rita LaFitte works at Tres Amigas Café in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This Christmas season her mother is visiting from Illinois, uneasy with the different traditions and the spicy foods. She is especially upset that her teenage granddaughter Celia is playing a devil in the holiday pageant. It seems like her fears may have come to pass when the man playing one of the other devils is murdered during the first performance.
Rita’s ex-husband Manny is the cop investigating the crime and her current boyfriend Jake is a lawyer defending the top suspect. There is a lot of local color and atmosphere, and a subplot about missing antiquities. There are five recipes included, and after reading a book, you will want to make a batch of the bizcohitos. Readers who enjoy culinary mysteries will savor this spicy mystery.
 

Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson
Beware Beware by Steph Cha
The Day of the Dead by Nicci French
The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter: a memoir by Holly Robinson
Back of Beyond by CJ Box
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Mining for Justice: a Chloe Ellefson mystery by Kathleen Ernst
Feliz Navidead by Ann Myers
A Major Production! by Thomas Sawyer
Murder Has a Motive by Frances Duncan
Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman

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