Pressing the Issue

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>T</strong><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>he Agatha Award-winning author of <em>Grilling the Subject</em> returns to the Cookbook Nook in Crystal Cove where the annual Renaissance Fair serves up a helping of crafty courtiers damsels in distress and medieval murder . . .</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As the annual Renaissance Fair comes to Crystal Cove Jenna Hart's Cookbook Nook is packed with tasty treats and all things medieval while her pal Bailey is ready to swoon over her upcoming nuptials at a local vineyard. But when the two friends discover the body of the vineyard's owner bludgeoned by a winepress all their merriment fades along with their hopes for a vintage year.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Which churlish varlet did the deed? Was it the victim's errant brother who stood to inherit the vineyards? Or the owner's crestfallen ex-girlfriend? Mayhap it was the newly arrived comely wench or her jealous husband. Fie on them all! Verily Jenna can't rest until justice is served and she vows to track down the killer. But can she sniff out the truth before the villainous culprit strikes again? </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Includes tantalizing recipes!</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Praise for Daryl Wood Gerber and the Cookbook Nook Mysteries:</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There's a feisty new amateur sleuth in town and her name is Jenna Hart. With a bodacious cast of characters a wrenching murder and a collection of cookbooks to die for Daryl Wood Gerber's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Final Sentence</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a page-turning puzzler of a mystery that I could not put down. -Jenn McKinlay </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York Times</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> bestselling author of the Cupcake Mysteries and Library Lovers Mysteries</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Final Sentence</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the author smartly blends crime recipes and an array of cookbooks that all should covet in a witty well-plotted whodunit. -Kate Carlisle </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York Times</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> bestselling author of the Bibliophile Mysteries</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Readers will relish the extensive cookbook suggestions the cooking primer and the whole foodie phenomenon. Gerber's perky tone with a multigenerational cast makes this series a good match for Lorna Barrett's Booktown Mystery series . . . -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Library Journal</em></p><p><br></p>