A Peach of a Murder

A Fresh-Baked Mystery

by Livia J. Washburn

Signet

Mystery, Mystery: Cozy

October 3, 2006

ISBN-13: 0451219740

Available in: Paperback

A Peach of a Murder
by Livia J. Washburn

Fresh out of the oven: the first in a new series of baking mysteries. Includes recipes!

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 J. Washburn's Bio

Under the names Livia J. Washburn and L.J. Washburn, Livia Reasoner has been writing award-winning, critically acclaimed mystery, western, romance, and historical novels for almost thirty years. She began to write in collaboration with her husband, author James Reasoner, and soon branched out into telling her own stories.

In addition to writing, Livia enjoys photography, arts, crafts, and cooking, but she also loves having a pile of lumber, a circular saw, and a building project. An accomplished carpenter, she has framed houses and built more sets of bookshelves than she can remember, some of which have been filled with the books she’s written. A good day for her includes having time to create something new in the kitchen, on a story, and in the garage.

Livia lives in the Texas countryside with her husband, and her dogs. She blogs when she can find the time at http://liviajwashburn.blogspot.com.