The Pickled Piper
FIRST IN A NEW SERIES! After her dreams of romance are crushed, Piper Lamb decides to pursue her dream of opening her own shop of pickles and preserves, called Piper’s Picklings, in the idyllic small town of Cloverdale. But she isn’t in town long before she encounters a barrelful of...
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FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!
After her dreams of romance are crushed, Piper Lamb decides to pursue her dream of opening her own shop of pickles and preserves, called Piper’s Picklings, in the idyllic small town of Cloverdale. But she isn’t in town long before she encounters a barrelful of trouble
The Cloverdale fair offers Piper a sweet opportunity to promote her business. With her new assistant, Amy, she sets up a booth centered around an eye-catching display of the ever-popular dills in an old-fashioned barrel of brine.
But things soon turn sour when fairgoers witness a fight between Amy’s boyfriend, Nate, and town council blowhardand bagpipe playerAlan Rosemont. When Rosemont is found floating in Piper’s barrel, Nate becomes the prime murder suspect. With Amy’s boyfriend in a pretty pickle, there’s no time to dillydally. But as Piper searches for the real killer, she needs to be careful to preserve her own life
or she may end up a pickled Piper herself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425262450 (0425262456)
Publish date: 6-5-2014
Publisher: Berkley Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Pickled and Preserved Mystery (#1)
I'm not rating this one because I couldn't even get to page 60 before closing it with a "nope, can't do it". By page 32 there were so many implausibilities my suspension of belief snapped from the tension of over-stretching. To wit: The MC's (Piper's) ex-fiancee is a lawyer working in the distri...
Piper Lamb has moves back to the place she's called home after calling it quits in a dead-end relationship. Opening a pickling and preserves shop called Piper’s Picklings, things are looking good until a local man is found in her picking barrel and her assistant, Amy's boyfriend is being accused. In...
Mary Ellen Hughes has been a favorite of mine since I read the Craft Corner Mystery series she did from 2006 - 2008. She's been on my Facebook for what seems like forever, and on a personal level is a kind and considerate friend. I was extremely excited when I heard she had a new series coming ou...
The Pickled Piper begins a new cozy series and I think it's going to be a good one. Piper, who moved to the small town of Cloverdale to start over after a romance goes bad is a smart, engaging sleuth and the other characters are just as interesting. Piper has moved to Cloverdale to be near her a...
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