As the snow is falling outside and winter has set in to stay for awhile, reading mystery novels that involve some delicious recipes to go along with a good crime to try and solve.
So I settled in with Tamar Myers series about Magdalena Yoder, the owner and hostess of the PennDutch Inn. But be careful when you book a room at this Bed and Breakfast, because this is the ninth in a series of murder mysteries that are happening in around this Pennsylvania Dutch Inn.
Magdalena has grown up in a Mennonite family in this Amish small town of Hernia. She inherited this house and now runs it as a B&B with her aunt Freni cooking in the kitchen.
In previous books these characters have been developed and details of their background has been elaborated on. In this book we find Mags with a full house, including a Hollywood couple and gym teacher. She tries to help her guests get the full Amish country experience, including paying extra to help clean, cook and even gather the eggs from the hens. At the same time she is trying to help solve the murder of town
Her sister, Susannah, is married to the Police Chief, Melvin Stoltzfus, who is very busy running his political campaign to get elected local councilman. So he deputizes Mags to help him discover the killer of both Lizzie Mast and then the subsequent death of Thelma Hershberger. Lizzie Mast was a friend but it is well known she was a terrible cook. But why would anyone want to kill her? Then it is even more complicated when Thelma is killed and we need to figure out how they were connected.
This just another fun cozy mystery that will keep you warm and comfortable as you read this formulaic novel and then you can eat some delicious comfort food as you eat some crepes with a variety of fillings.
Tamar Myers likes to write these simple cozy formulaic style mysteries and she has a following for this series and her other antique dealer series also. This Pennsylvanian Dutch series with recipes now has twenty one books.
More interesting might be that she is also writing a Belgian Congo mystery series, about which she has quite a bit of knowledge because she grew up there in the village of a headhunters. Her parents were missionaries and her childhood sounds incredible. I will possibly try and read one of the books in this series.
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