Eggs on Ice

Zusatztext Praise for the  New York Times  bestselling Cackleberry Club Mysteries   “Tasty and fun.”— Minneapolis Star Tribune   “With a plot that holds interest and characters who are well-envisioned and well-executed! Childs will have readers planning another trip to the Cackleberry Club and its treats.”— Richmond Times-Dispatch   “Childs excels at creating comforting settings in which to put her characters! and the Cackleberry Club is a place you’d like to visit.”— St. Paul Pioneer Press   “Along with toothsome recipes! Childs dishes up plenty of small-town charm.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Laura Childs Klappentext The Christmas season at the Cackleberry Club café is marred by murder in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling series, now in paperback. Some say that casting crusty attorney Allan Sharp as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of A Christmas Carol is just playing to type. He's not the most beloved man in town. In fact, you'd have a dickens of a time finding someone who liked him. Still, it's a shock when the Ghost of Christmas Past stabs him during the first rehearsal. Suzanne, co-owner of the Cackleberry Club café, Kindred's favorite combination diner, craft store, and bookshop, chases the murderer out of the building but loses him in the alley. As the days pass, the list of suspects grows longer. Is it the disgruntled law partner? The former secretary, whom Sharpe sexually harrassed? Or is it fellow owner of the Cackleberry Club Toni's almost ex-husband, Junior? The women of the Cackleberry Club are determined to find the killer before he can add another victim to his Christmas list.***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected copy proof*** Copyright © 2018 Laura Childs   1 It was a Dickens of a night. Velvet topcoats worn with silk ascots, fake British accents that echoed through the theater, a key light focused on an antique rolltop desk piled high with black ledgers. Like that. “It’s perfect casting,” Suzanne Dietz whispered to her friend Toni as they stood backstage. “Allan Sharp playing Ebenezer Scrooge.” “Our town curmudgeon scored the ultimate role,” Toni chuckled. “What’s not to like?” It was Sunday evening, a few weeks before Christmas, and the Kindred Players were holding their first-ever dress rehearsal for A Christmas Carol. Suzanne and Toni had ditched their holiday decorating chores at the Cackleberry Club Café in order to help with costumes, sets, and lighting. Now they stood in the darkened wings of the refurbished Oakhurst Theatre, watching their fellow townsfolk do some fairly credible acting. “Look at Bud Nolden,” Toni said. “Who would have thought a big gallumping guy who drives a two-ton snowplow would make such a believable Bob Cratchit?” “He’s doing great,” Suzanne said. “The entire cast is. They’ve learned their lines and are putting real emotion behind them.” Suzanne, who’d never appeared onstage, never even sung in a high school musical, was delighted to remain in the wings. “And take a gander at Mayor Mobley stomping around out there. Even he’s giving a hundred and ten percent.” “Which is about what he usually gets after he stuffs the ballot box.” “Still,” Suzanne said. “For once Mobley’s trying to do his part for the community.” “Which is more than I can say for myself, because I still haven’t figured out which rope raises the curtain and which pulley lowers the backdrop.” Toni let out a long sigh. “And then there are the confounded lights. I don’t know a key light from a klieg, which I guess makes me some kind of dim bulb.” “Don’t be so hard on yourself,” Suzanne said. “We’ll get the bugs worked out. That’s what rehearsals are all about.” For her own part, Suzanne was struggling with the fog machine, trying to figure out how to make it spew...

Product details

• Authors: Laura Childs
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780425281734
• ISBN: 978-0-425-28173-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 21 mm
• Series: A Cackleberry Club Mystery; Cackleberry Club Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense