Looking in the Window: Cooking up a Mystery Selected for an Amazon Daily Deal, and the Price is Good for All of June. Recipe and Other Authors.

This month’s chocked full of $1.99 deals on Amazon, including novels by many Pelican Book Group authors.

I’m honored to have Cooking up a Mystery among them. (See below for a list of other authors to look for.)

About Cooking up a Mystery

Cooking up a Mystery combines a mystery with a touch of romance, humor, faith and forgiveness.

In the story, Laney Eskridge is on edge from emotional scars from her parents’ deaths and her husband’s infidelity and abandonment. Then she hears unexplained noises in her new tea house, and her anxiety is tripled. Add a budding romance with Eric—a guy with a fear of commitment—and it's all too much to handle. She cuts ties with Eric and works to make her business pay off, but he discovers she’s in danger and wants to help. Little could they know they would overhear a threat that could cause a national turmoil.

Even though I come from a long line of Southern gourmet cooks, I didn’t think of writing a culinary book until I met a newspaper faith editor who suggested we complete a project together. She had written a cookbook for a charity, Mission Love Seeds, which supports children, and we saw Cooking up a Mystery as a perfect fit for my culinary upbringing and her recipes.

In addition to the mystery in the heroine’s tea house kitchen, there are two dozen plus recipes, all supplied by members of Mission Love Seeds, in the back of the book, so it’s double the fun. The recipe headings have the name of a character in the book with a byline of the person who submitted it at the end.

From Laney’s Chefs in the Making in the back of Cooking up a Mystery

Greta’s Cherries in the Snow

Ingredients

One (18.25 oz) package of yellow cake mix

One (3.5 0z.) package instant vanilla pudding mix

One (21 oz.) can cherry pie filling

Directions

Prepare and bake care according to directions using a 9 x 12-inch pan. Cool. Prepare pudding according to directions. Pour on top of cooled cake. Pour cherries on top of pudding. Serve. Refrigerate leftovers.

Submitted by Pam Griffin of Destin, Florida.

Find the $1.99 Monthly Deal on Cooking up a Mystery on Amazon

And Also Look for the $1.99 Price on the Following Sites for the Month of June

Kobo

Apple

Look for the following Pelican authors' Monthly Deals during the entire month of June.

Adams, Jamie

Akins, Karla

Allord, Rachel

Asenato, Lisa

Baganz, Susan M.

Baker, Brenda

Blythe, Barbara

Britton, Barbara M.

Buck, Victoria

Clark, Katie

Cosgrove, Julie B

Couch, Angela K.

Davy, Wendy

Doran, Bonnie

DuCharme, Judy

Duncan, Lillian

Elder, Jan

Friesen, Kathleen

Glick, Heidi

Goree, Valerie Massey

Green, Cindy K.

Griffith, R.J.

Henderson, Lesa

Hilbert, C.E.

Jakes, Janis

James, Carol

James, Izzy

Johnson, Susan Diane

Kuntz, Robert

Leach, Marilyn

Lickel, Lisa J.

Ludwig, Ashley Elizabeth

Malley, Karen

Marcoux, Sheryl

Marzec, Penelope

Mason, Susan Anne

McCarthy, Zoe M

McMahill, Kim

Mendoza, Kimberlee R.

Miller, Kimberly M.

Mitchell, Margaree King

Morrow, Jayna

Nadeau, Sandy

Novikov, Anya

O'Shea, Jim

Pallotta, Gail

Redmond, Shirley Raye

Revell, Clare

Rolfs, Judith

Self, Jayne E.

Spess, Susan

St. John, Blair

Stevenson, Erin

Taylor, Donn

Thor, Miriam

Tiffany, Terri

Travis, Therese M.

Voigt, Janalyn

Wegley, H.L.

Wick, Audrey

Wilson, Dianne J.

Wolfe, Jodie

Wright, Eric E.

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