If Catfish Had Nine Lives
(Country Cooking School Mystery)
4th in Series
Cozy Mystery
A Berkley Prime Crime Mystery
The Berkley Publishing Group (August 5, 2014)
Published by The Penguin Group
Cover Illustration by Phil Parks
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0425269282
E-Book File Size: 1325 KB
ASIN: B00I3N5QKU
Betts Winston has inherited more than her cooking skills from her grandmother—she can also see and talk to ghosts of people that once roamed the streets of Broken Rope, Missouri, in the days of the Old West…
With Gram’s Country Cooking School on spring break, Betts and Gram are taking part in this year’s cowboy poetry convention, offering lessons on frying catfish over an open campfire. But when a staged gunfight ends in real death and her brother Teddy becomes a prime suspect, Betts may be the one to jump from the frying pan into the fire.
After her ghostly guardian Jerome appears to watch her back and a spectral Pony Express rider gallops into town with some unfinished business, Broken Rope starts to seem more like a cowboy ghost convention. With trouble on both sides of this mortal coil, it’s up to Betts to clear her brother, put the spirits to rest, and make sure the true killer doesn’t become the one who got away.
Includes Recipes!
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Paige Shelton has given us another top notch cozy mystery. She blends cooking with mystery, history, and ghosts. She also adds in a spoonful of romance that may surprise you.
Betts and Gram are fantastic characters but Jerome always steals my heart. He is always there when Betts needs him and this time she really needed him to help unlock all the mysteries she was trying to solve.
Broken Rope is a very special place. It takes us back to the Wild West and I appreciate the way Jake tries to keep all the history straight. An enormous task and he continues to receive more and more information and treasures for his collection. I loved learning more about the Pony Express.
Shelton continues to amaze me with her imaginative stories. The characters are unique and engaging, the main plots and subplots mesh together perfectly. The history and the mystery draws the reader in and hangs on tight. Then she adds some killer recipes to boot!
Paige you had me with this one – hook, line and sinker! This book is quite a catch!!
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This sounds like my kind of book.
thank you for the chance to win
This sounds like a book I would enjoy.
I love her books!
Sounds like a great read.
I just finished the first two books in this series over the weekend. Looking forward to the next two.
Thank you, Lori – not just for the review, but for everything you do. Greetings to your readers.
You are so welcome Paige!!
Fishing and history are great for summertime. I remember when my husband won a fishing trip on a boat and he took our twelve year daughter with him. They had a blast . I’ll stick with the fish frying. Think I’ll skip the old west ghosts too!! Though reading about them with grannies could be just my thing!!
I love this series, thank you for the chance to win this one.
Great series. Can’t wait to read this one.
A cozy with cooking and cowboys! I have a feeling I’d love this one!
sounds good.thanks for the chance
Looks like a great cozy mystery. Can’t wait to read it.
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