[Bohemian Lake 08] • Nuttier Than Pecan Pie

When a burglary disrupts the small-town sweetness of Bohemian Lake’s Sugar & Ice Winter Faire, Eve Banter, the newest Festival Correspondent for the local paper and Committee’s Vice-Chair pores over clues to extract a killer…

The March Break’s maple-themed festival brings sweet sugar taffy, snow covered-sleigh rides, and skating on an outdoor rink. It also brings ice carving, axe throwing and unfortunately, a stiff body or two. It all start with Eve’s friend, head pie judge-Clara Hart. She’s no doll, but she sure likes to collect them, and she enlists Eve’s help when her home is burglarized, and her favorite cabbage patch kid vanishes along with a hidden recipe. Not long after, her fellow pie judge and long-time neighbor also disappears.

After Clara is poisoned at the pie festival, Eve uncovers the neighbor’s whereabouts and, tapping into the town’s historical records, finds a hard nut to crack—one that unravels a conspiracy colder than a nine-ton polar bear carved from ice. Now it’s up to Eve to slip away from a killer, someone nuttier than the town’s prize-winning pecan pie.

Eve might be pushing sixty-two but she’s still got some snap in her garters.