The Pumpkin Butter Murder
- Series: Luscious Delights , Book 2
- Release Date: October 3, 2023
- ASIN: B0CCW9C9C1
- Genre: Cozy Mystery
- Available Formats: eBook, Paperback, eBook and Paperback
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Roxy Constantine is looking for a way to spend her winter down time. Her true love Nate Robicheaux has a suggestion: she can serve as his sous chef when he prepares a dinner party for possible investors. But when several guests become ill and the hostess herself dies after eating their food, Roxy and Nate could be in deep trouble. Now they need to find out what really happened, and who wanted their hostess dead, before their culinary reputations go down in flames and the murderer turns his attention to Roxy herself.
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Excerpt
Fowler was the last person I expected to see on Tera’s doorstep. I threw open the door, then stood blinking at him. “What are you doing here?”
Fowler raised his eyebrows. “I might ask you the same thing.”
“We fixed dinner. Nate and I. We were just putting our stuff together so we could drive down to Shavano.”
Fowler stepped inside. “You cooked dinner, the two of you?”
I nodded. “Yeah. We’d just finished. And then people got sick.” All of a sudden my heart beat sped up alarmingly. “Why are you here? What’s happened?”
Fowler ignored my questions in favor of his own. “Where’s your partner?”
“You mean me?” Nate asked from behind me. “I’m right here. I agree with Roxy. We need to know what’s happened.”
Fowler gave us a long look, as if he was weighing a lot of different possibilities before he answered. Then he sighed. “Ms. Bloomfield passed away about a half hour ago. I’m here to secure the scene.”
I felt as if my stomach had dropped to my knees. My heart was hammering, and I wasn’t sure I could stand up on my own. I propped one hand on the wall until I felt Nate’s arm around me, bracing me against him.
