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I'm Jo Hiestand. I write two mystery series: the McLaren Mysteries that take place in mid-England and in Scotland, and the Cookies & Kilts Mysteries that take place in mid-Missouri. I hope you'll see what my website pages offer and return often for updates on new releases. Thanks for stopping by!
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Crumbs of Defeat
April first. The annual bake-off contest in Beaudin Trace, Missouri. Oven temperatures and entrants' tempers are hot enough to bake most anything. And everyone there thinks if one particular participant would leave, things would cool off.
Evidently, someone's wish is overheard, for the contentious contestant is found post-contest, sprinkled with cupcakes and ready for her postmortem.
The death yields a mix of suspects, all capable of cooking up the murder. The problem is, who was stirred up enough to do it?
You can buy the
Cookies & Kilts
cozy mystery novels at
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