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Brie Hooker is a vegan chef who has come home to visit when one of her twin aunts passes away. She ends up staying to help her remaining Aunt Eva run the goat cheese farm that the two aunts had worked on together.

While she is a vegan, she is okay with fixing non-vegan dishes for family and friends, so the book doesn’t preach too hard about food choices. She is attracted to two different men who are quite carnivorous in their food choices as well. She is just finding her footing, when the family pig makes a gruesome discovery on the farm – one that spells legal problems (and worse) for Aunt Eva.

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I have read each and every book in Julie Mulhern’s The Country Club Murders series. I was astounded with her writing skill in the first book in (“The Deep End”) and each succeeding book has added even more to my delight.

The setting is the early 1970’s in Kansas City and our sleuth, Ellison Russell, is part of the elite country club members. Over the last year (and five prior books), Ellison’s life has been turned upside down. She is trying to breaking free of the privileged mold that she was born into. She wants something different for both herself and for her teenaged daughter, Grace.

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I’ve read most but not all of the TJ Jensen Mystery series. “Fireworks in Paradise” brings us back to the small town where TJ’s family owns a resort.

TJ’s father has been in an accident that claimed the life of an old family friend. It starts looking as if the accident was anything but accidental but the problem is trying to weed down the list of suspects.

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I have read all of the books in the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt series and “The Ninja’s Illusion” is another fun and fast-paced story to enjoy. I’ve thought, from my first reading one of the books in this series, that Jaya Jones was a perfect mash-up between various Elizabeth Peters sleuths and Indiana Jones.

Jaya is an art historian who specializes in Indian history. She’s become somewhat famous for being able to find lost treasures and is often called upon by others in this specialty. In this story, however, she goes to Japan to assist her best friend, Sanjay, when he calls for help. Sanjay is a magician of some renown and is known as The Hindi Houdini. He’s been invited to assist a famous Japanese magician in performing a virtually impossible feat but is very much afraid that someone has nefarious plans which will cause him serious harm if not worse.

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