Piper Lamb knows how to make fruits and vegetables keep for months. Unfortunately, its the people around her who are expiring too soon…
After her fiancé left her, Piper came to Cloverdale to rebuild her life and open up her shop, Pipers Picklings, to sell pickles and preserves. When her ex decides to drop in for a visitjust as things are heating up between her and a local Christmas tree farmerPiper finds herself in a jam.
But there are other visitors to worry about…
An Italian soccer team is set to play the Cloverdale All-Stars in an exhibition game. Their manager, Raffaele Conti, was a bitter rival of Pipers dill supplier, local farmer Gerald Standley. After Conti is found dead in Standleys field, Piper must work to clear Geralds name and find out who relished killing Raffaele before the town is soured by another death. INCLUDES RECIPES!
I enjoyed this book. The characters are normal human beings with all the little quirks and kinks that people have, the story interesting, well written, flows nicely with a surprise ending. I liked the ending made me smile. Should be an interesting series although I cant believe that that many people go through so many spices or that she could be pickling, spicing and canning on a daily basis. I also liked how the author explained so much about dill at the end of the book with the dill recipes. I used to can a long time ago and just enjoyed the story --- any homemaker would probably be interested in this really nice cozy!
After her fiancé left her, Piper came to Cloverdale to rebuild her life and open up her shop, Pipers Picklings, to sell pickles and preserves. When her ex decides to drop in for a visitjust as things are heating up between her and a local Christmas tree farmerPiper finds herself in a jam.
But there are other visitors to worry about…
An Italian soccer team is set to play the Cloverdale All-Stars in an exhibition game. Their manager, Raffaele Conti, was a bitter rival of Pipers dill supplier, local farmer Gerald Standley. After Conti is found dead in Standleys field, Piper must work to clear Geralds name and find out who relished killing Raffaele before the town is soured by another death. INCLUDES RECIPES!
I enjoyed this book. The characters are normal human beings with all the little quirks and kinks that people have, the story interesting, well written, flows nicely with a surprise ending. I liked the ending made me smile. Should be an interesting series although I cant believe that that many people go through so many spices or that she could be pickling, spicing and canning on a daily basis. I also liked how the author explained so much about dill at the end of the book with the dill recipes. I used to can a long time ago and just enjoyed the story --- any homemaker would probably be interested in this really nice cozy!
