Halloween Murder on the Menu

Categories: Mystery & Suspense , Fiction

This past weekend, I went to a family Halloween party.  There was plenty of food on hand, including my aunt’s famous iced pumpkin, bat, and ghost cookies.  If treats are on your menu this Halloween, I highly recommend these delicious new mysteries:

A Catered Halloween by Isis Crawford: Sisters Bernadette and Libby Simmons are hired to cater a haunted house fundraiser for the volunteer firemen of Longely, New York, at the old Peabody School.  The severed head that is found at the haunted house turns out to be real—and the victim, Amethyst Applegate, was a former student at the school and a classmate of Bessie Osgood, who died under suspicious circumstances years ago and whose ghost still haunts the place.  Bernie and Libby, along with their father, the town’s retired police chief, must solve this culinary cozy mystery. 

Working Stiff by Tori Carrington:  The week before Halloween, a body disappears from the funeral home of Greek American and Private Investigator Sofie Metropolis’s aunt.  While working on this case—which may be a holiday prank--Sofie is also trying to prove the innocence of teenager Johnny Laughton, about to go on trial for the murder of his girlfriend.  Complicating matters even further is her romantic interest in two men—family-approved Greek baker and pastry shop owner Dino Antonopoulous and the ever-mysterious Australian bounty hunter Jake Porter.