Southern Peach Pie and A Dead Guy (Poppy Peters Mysteries Book 1), by A. Gardner
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From debut author A. Gardner comes a deliciously dangerous new series... After an injury derails Poppy Peters' ballet career, she gathers the courage to follow in her grandmother's footsteps and attend Calle Pastry Academy in a small-town Georgia. Poppy has her work cut out for her not only fitting in with her charming (and not-so-charming ) Southern classmates but also proving her worth to her teachers after her first publicly humiliating attempt a making the school's famous peach pie. But Poppy's pastry problems go from bad to worse when she's suddenly accused of stealing expensive black truffles, and her attempt to clear her name goes awry...resulting in her finding a dead body instead! If Poppy's going to survive this culinary experience, she'll need to find the missing truffles and track down a killer, all while honing her baking skills to compete in the school's dessert competition for a coveted pastry internship in Paris. Can Poppy prove she's one tough cookie? Or is her life about to crumble? **Recipes Included** Poppy Peters Mysteries: Southern Peach Pie and a Dead Guy (book #1) Chocolate Macaroons and a Dead Groom (book #2) Ice Cream Bombes and Stolen Thongs (short story in the "Killer Beach Reads" collection) Bananas Foster and a Dead Mobster (book #3) - coming soon! "A sweet and satisfying mystery that will leave you hungry for more! A. Gardner's Poppy Peters Mysteries have earned a place on my keeper shelf!" ~ Gemma Halliday, New York Times bestselling mystery author
Southern Peach Pie and A Dead Guy (Poppy Peters Mysteries Book 1), by A. Gardner- Amazon Sales Rank: #69595 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-04
- Released on: 2015-03-04
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author A. Gardner is a native westerner exploring the sweet bites of the south. After years of working in the healthcare industry, she moved across the country with her husband and adventurous baby boy. She is a mystery and romance writer with a serious cupcake obsession and a love of storytelling that began at an early age. When she is not writing, she is either chasing after her son, out for a swim, trying out a new recipe, or painting her nails bright blue.
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77 of 93 people found the following review helpful. How did this book get so many 5 stars? By JF, RRT The beginning was good. Midway it starts heading to ridiculous. One culprit is arrested - but guess what? There are more. Of course, bad guy #1, after being accused of murder, doesn't rat out bad guy #2 (or even hint that there is another one). OK, it could happen.The heroine flies to CA from GA and discovers bad guy #2 putting empty weed killer bottles in the trash outside her home. He admits he poisoned the party food for revenge and runs away. Call the cops? No. Tell everyone at the party "don't eat the food, it has been poisoned? No. Start throwing it on the floor so they can't/won't eat it? Sure that works. Food destroyed, party guests gone...call the local cops? No. Call the detective in GA who immediately hops on a plane WITH his "team" of criminalists to gather evidence. Worry about jurisdiction issues? Nah, No problem.Please. Couldn't decide if this was a fantasy or a mystery.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful. A great mystery By Denise Austin This is a wonderful story. I loved Poppy and her quirkiness. Any story that involves food and a good mystery does it for me and this involved both. It has a touch of humor and a lot of angst for Poppy but she is able to solve the murder and do what she set out to do. I won't spoil the story but I truly loved this book.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful. The Murder is Slow in Coming . . . By Amazon Customer Murder at a pastry school doesn't stop its students from turning out the tastiest morsels in Georgia.Poppy Peters had to give up her dream (rather her mother's dream) of being a ballerina after a back injury. But her Grandmother Liz, a Calle Pastry Academy alumni and baker extraordinaire, has given her an idea for another occupation - pastry chef. Poppy, against her family's liking, decides to enroll in the same pastry school her grandmother attended. There she seems to find happiness - new friends and even a love interest. But things quickly go awry.Not the typical murder mystery - the reader is well into the book before a dead body shows up and there is a mystery to solve, there's no list of suspects and the clues are lacking - still Southern Peach Pie and a Dead Guy fits into the cozy genre easily. The characters are typical, but fun. It's set in a small community and amateur sleuthing and good baking abound. (Check out the recipes in the back of the book, they look yummy.)WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!However, for this reader there were a lot of things amiss: Peach pie doesn't actually have much to do with the murder. Poppy, who acts a lot younger than thirty, has a love of coffee that people seem to know about - even before she has one cup of it (I believe she only drinks one cup in the entire book). There's an illegal ring of thieves that seem to have no purpose and there's blackmailing of students it seems, without anything bad to hold against them. Then there's the lack of research by the author which made the book less believable. Gardner writes about a pastry school where the instructors are called "Mr." and "Professor" instead of "Chef." Students are allowed to cook in shorts and high heels (what happened to chef jackets?), and valuable items are stored for some reason in classroom kitchens. But the most egregious miss was how the story surrounded the French founder of the school who immigrated to Georgia "nearly" a hundred years ago. It appears that he soon became disillusioned with the school in the early 1900s and went back to France to bake for the Queen. The last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, died in 1792 (a lot longer than a hundred years ago.) Seeing that France's very last queen was pretty popular (with the saying "let them eat cake," erroneously attributed to her, and having her head chopped off), the author should have gotten the history (timeline) right. Then when you think the mystery is solved and life has gone back to normal for Poppy, without nary a clue from the author to the reader, the case picks right back up, assumingly, as a twist to the story. The only surprise was why the author did that because it's kind of unbelievable. Wouldn't people actually taste (if not smell) weed killer and not eat the food? And why did the killer spray it on the food in the backyard then throw the containers away in the trash cans there? There would be fingerprints everywhere. And where were the people that actually delivered the food?? Did they just hang out while the killer sprayed the poison and then packaged it back up and dropped it off at the door? Even though the book is fictional, it still should be believable.Not the best cozy mystery book, but a light quick read nonetheless. Three stars.
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