"Betts and Gram will deal with some new ghosts and a new murder."
If Mashed Potatoes Could Dance
By: Paige Shelton
Genres: Mystery
Posted: December 12, 2012
Three of the food tour group go missing before their first night is out. Betts and Jake will be drawn into the investigation. Betts and her grandmother, Miz, see ghosts and talk with them. In IF MASHED POTATOES COULD DANCE, we meet Sally Swarthmore, one of Broken Rope's more infamous killers. She is supposed to have killed both her parents.
As Betts investigates, one of the missing guests is found dead and her attention is diverted. Sally is not willing to let her be diverted. The two investigations will bring the identity of the killers to light and the truth of the Swarthmore deaths to light.
A unique series placed in a small town in Missouri with a rather interesting history, I've really enjoyed the County Cooking School books. This is the second in the series. I love the main characters and their ability to see ghosts. Miz has always been able to see and talk with ghosts. Betts' has the same ability but hers are enhanced. She can touch them in special circumstances. The history of Broken Rope places an integral part in the stories since the ghosts are all part of the town.
Book Summary
At Gram’s Country Cooking School in Broken Rope,
Missouri, Isabelle “Betts” Winston and her grandmother share
the secrets of delicious home-style recipes. But there’s one
secret they keep from their classes—their ability to talk to
ghosts from the town’s colorful
past…
Betts and Gram agree to help their
friend Jake at Broken Rope’s Historical Society by
accommodating some foodie tourists for the night and
occupying them with cooking lessons. It couldn’t be worse
timing when the pair encounter the ax-wielding ghost of
Sally Swarthmore, one of Broken Rope’s legendary murderers,
who pleads with Betts to help find her diary--a diary that
could prove that Sally was really a victim, not a
villain.
But they soon have a modern-day murder
on their hands when one of the tourists turns up dead with a
noose around his neck and two other tourists are nowhere to
be found. Now Betts needs to put the cooking classes on the
back burner to untangle two knotty mysteries and rope in a
cold-blooded killer.
If Mashed Potatoes Could Dance
by: Paige Shelton
County Country Cooking School #2
Berkley
October 1, 2012
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Featuring: Isabelle "Betts" Winston
ISBN: 0425251616
EAN: 9780425251614
Kindle: B008EXJZ4C
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