All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as peach pie-except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slipped through Phyllis's fingers more than once...
Everyone's a little shook up when the corpse of a no-good local turns up underneath a car in a local garage. But even as Phyllis engages in some amateur sleuthing, she won't let it distract her from out-baking her rivals and winning the upcoming Peach Festival contest.
She and all the other contestants guard their secret, original recipes with their lives-and talk a whole lot of trash. With her unusual Spicy Peach Cobbler, Phyllis hopes to knock 'em dead. But that's just an expression-never in her wildest dreams did she think her cobbler would actually kill a judge. Now, she's suspected of murder-and she's got to bake this case wide open.
Livia Washburn's style of writing is just very comforting to me...kind of like peach pie on a cool autumn evening. A Peach of a Murder is the 1st book in her Fresh Baked series. While I, once again, read the second book first, Murder By the Slice, this book was wonderful and refreshing and just gives you a sense of home, family and friends. The things that are important in life.
While everyone seems to be popping up dead around her, Phyllis Newsom puts a few skills she didn't know she had to work and searches for clues to the killer. The police believe it may be someone who lives in her home and Phyllis sets out to clear their name. In the meantime, more bodies keep showing up in town, none of them with any ties to each other. Is there a serial killer on the loose in their sleepy little town? With the help of some friends, Phyllis will find out.
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