From the introduction, which wistfully recalls the author's childhood spent picking out pecans for her mother's candymaking, to the candid discussion of the health aspects of pecans, this collection evokes nostalgia & a desire to cook with pecans in order to improve health. ...

Newly returned from investigating a murder in Monkslip-super-Mare, handsome Max Tudor wants nothing more than to settle back into his predictable routine as vicar of St. Edwolds Church in the village of Nether Monkslip.

But the flow of his sermon on Bathsheba is interrupted when the lady of the local manor house is found in a suicide pact with her young lover.

Lady Duxters husband rallies quickly from the double tragedy
- too quickly, it is murmured in the village. Lord Duxter has already offered his manor house to a motley crew of writers, including Maxs wife Awena, for his writers retreat, & he insists the show must go on.

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• ISBN: 9781472125187
• Author: G.M. Malliet
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 281
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm












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