Dial M for Meat Loaf
by Ellen Hart
2020-12-31 19:07:21
RECIPE FOR MURDER As Minnesota housewives race to meet the deadline for the Times Register''s meat loaf contest, an unsavory small-towner named Kirby Runbeck is blown to smithereens by a car bomb. Days later, the town''s former mayor, John Washbu...
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RECIPE FOR MURDER
As Minnesota housewives race to meet the deadline for the Times Register''s meat loaf contest, an unsavory small-towner named Kirby Runbeck is blown to smithereens by a car bomb.
Days later, the town''s former mayor, John Washburn, near death from a stroke, confesses to the killing. His wife and two children vehemently deny it, but when Sophie Greenway, food maven and friend of the family, happens upon an old snapshot, a bundle of letters, and a tattoo of a red-eyed snake, she wonders about Washburn''s innocence. Unlike the recipe for a prize meat loaf, this murder is seasoned with spicy secrets and a generous portion of scandal, which Sophie dares to bring to a roiling boil. . . .
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