A Sprinkling of Murder
  • Published: 25 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781496726346
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $35.00
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A Sprinkling of Murder

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Agatha Award-winning author Daryl Wood Gerber (a.k.a. Avery Aames) launches a whimsical new series featuring Courtney Kelly, owner of Open Your Imagination, a fairy-gardening store and teashop in Carmel, California. It's a special place brimming with good vibes, lush greenery, miniature fairy accessories, soothing fountains and host to book club teas, but when a neighboring business owner turns up dead, Courtney must enlist the help of some magical friends to clear her name...

Fairy garden store owner Courtney Kelly believes in inviting magic into your life. But when uninvited trouble enters her shop, she’ll need more than a sprinkling of her imagination to solve a murder . . .
 
Since childhood, Courtney has loved fairies. After her mother died when Courtney was ten, she lost touch with that feeling of magic. A year ago, at age twenty-nine, she rediscovered it when she left her father's landscaping business to spread her wings and start a fairy garden business and teashop in beautiful Carmel, California. At Open Your Imagination, she teaches garden design and sells everything from fairy figurines to tinkling wind chimes. Now she's starting a book club tea.
 
But the light of the magical world she's created inside her shop is darkened one night when she discovers neighboring dog-grooming business owner Mick Watkins dead beside her patio fountain. To make matters worse, the police suspect Courtney of the crime. To clear her name and find the real killer, Courtney will have to wing it. But she’s about to get a little help from an unexpected source . . .
  • Published: 25 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781496726346
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

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Praise for A Sprinkling of Murder

Praise for the author's previous mysteries

"Readers will relish the extensive cookbook suggestions, the cooking primer, and the whole foodie phenomenon. Gerber's perky tone with a multigenerational cast makes this series a good match for Lorna Barrett ("Booktown Mystery" series)." --Library Journal

"[An] enjoyable cozy plot." --Kirkus Reviews

"Gerber ticks all the boxes for a successful cozy: a capable protagonist, intelligent dialogue, a fine sense of place, eccentric yet plausible suspects, and clues galore." --Publishers Weekly

"[Gerber] creates colorful, enjoyable characters...One word of warning: her descriptions of the food and wine pairings are so very vivid and realistic that readers should not be hungry when they read this mystery." --Booklist

"Just as delicious as the first... When it comes to the word "appetizing" you automatically think of food. But when it comes to the literary scene, this series is well beyond appetizing. Not only are the foods incredible (make sure to check out the awesome recipes provided), but the characters and plot are equally superb." --Suspense Magazine

"There's a feisty new amateur sleuth in town and her name is Jenna Hart. With a bodacious cast of characters, a wrenching murder, and a collection of cookbooks to die for, Daryl Wood Gerber's Final Sentence was a page turning puzzler of a mystery that I could not put down." --Jenn McKinlay, New York Times bestselling author of the Cupcake Mysteries and Library Lovers Mysteries

Daryl Wood Gerber is the Agatha Award-winning author of the Fairy Garden Mysteries, the French Bistro Mysteries, the nationally bestselling Cookbook Nook Mysteries and the popular Cheese Shop Mysteries (written as Avery Aames). Prior to her career as a novelist, she was an actress with roles in "Murder, She Wrote" and other television shows. She also wrote screenplays and created the format for the popular TV sitcom "Out of this World." Originally from the Bay Area, she now lives in Southern California where she likes to cook, garden and spend time with her frisky Goldendoodle named Sparky. Visit her online at DarylWoodGerber.com.

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