A Case of Accidental Intersetion - W. S. Gager, Author

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Icebox Cookies
  A Favorite Recipe from Author W. S. Gager 


Sift:     4 ½ cups flour
            2 teaspoons baking soda
            1 teaspoon cinnamon
            1 teaspoon salt
Combine:         1 cup brown sugar
                        1 cup white sugar
                        3 eggs, well beaten
                        1 ½ cup melted shortening (Crisco)


Add flour and dry ingredients into the other and mix well. Add 1 cup chopped walnuts. Split dough into thirds and place on an 18-inch piece of wax paper or foil and shape into a long roll. Wrap up and twist ends to seal. Refrigerate at least two hours. Slice thin and bake at 375 degrees 6-8 minutes on a greased cookie sheet. Dough can be kept for up to two weeks but rarely made it that long in our house.
Yummy!

 W.S. Gager
Author of Humorous Whodunits
A Case of Infatuation
A Case of Accidental Intersection-Now Available


A Case of Accidental Intersection – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
 
‘A twisted piece of fiberglass stuck in the dirt along the side of the road.  A rear view mirror the color of cherry-red lipstick had busted off the wreckage and landed some fifty feet away, along the center line marking the do-not-pass zone.  Firefighters, EMTs and policemen huddled around the still-turning belly of a cement truck that had mowed over the top of something but was itself undamaged.  The realization hit me with horror.  The mirror belonged to a car pinned under the orange and white girth.  It now looked like an octopus with jagged sheet-metal legs protruding in all directions, rather than a fancy sports car from a showroom.  I moved in the direction of a woman pacing and wringing her hands.  I pulled out my ever-present small digital camera and snapped a couple of shots of the wreckage.  Then one of the woman who clearly showed the magnitude of the scene without any words needed.  I slipped the camera back in my breast pocket.  “I’m Mitch Malone with the Grand River Journal.” 
 
Mitch Malone has just run across a wreck that will be the basis of his biggest story of his career, so far.  The “accident” took place just as the elderly Elsie Dobson was looking out her window.  The little red sports car seemed to just pulled out in front of a cement truck.  The passengers – Dominique Pewter, heiress to Herman Steel Designs and her long time best friend Ashley Albanese.  Dominique had just purchased the car as a graduation gift to herself and as the papers would soon report, was killed on impact.  The passenger, Ashley, was taken to the hospital with a broken arm and head injuries.  Her chances of surviving are hopeful at best. 
 
After seeing the wreck, talking to Elsie and then to a friend from the police department, Mitch isn’t convinced that this was an accident.  After another death occurs and is tied to a bar Mitch has been staking out, he’s sure it wasn’t an accident.  And this turns out to be the same bar where Mitch has been observing his new editor Neil patronizing.  Could there be a connection?
 
In reading A Case of the Accidental Intersection I knew the why and came up with 3 possibilities as to who wanted Dominique dead.  I finally realized that I was wrong about 35 pages from the end.  I really enjoyed reading A Case of Accidental Intersection.  Its filled with memorable characters, good cops, a rear end cop, as well as a touch of humor.
 
 
2010
Oak Tree Press
232 pages
ISBN# 978-1-892343-70-3
 

16 comments:

  1. WS Gager said...

    Martha: Thank you so much for the great review and sharing my Grandma's cookie recipe. They are great with a cup of hot tea. Just a ticket for these cold days!
    Wendy
    W.S. Gager
    www.WsGager.com

  2. Joselyn Vaughn said...

    Great review, Gager!! I might have to try the cookie recipe. It looks easy enough.

  3. WS Gager said...

    It is very easy and best of all you can have hot cookies whenever you want them. (The dough is really good too. Sometimes they don't make it to the oven!)

  4. Sunny Frazier said...

    Martha, again you've tantalized our taste buds with both a great cookie recipe and a terrific read. I am already a Mitch Malone fan.

    Your site is always a pleasure to read. Warms my tummy!

  5. Cindy Sample said...

    What a nice review. Wendy, your book sounds very tantalizing, as does that cookie recipe. My pantry is bare so it looks like I have some baking to do. And a new book to order.

  6. Marja said...

    These cookies will give me something to much on while I read your book. Mitch Malone is becoming one of my favorites, and I have the feeling that the cookies will be the frosting on the cake, so to speak.

  7. Holli said...

    I love Wendy's Mitch Malone series and now I have a new cookie to try. Funny, I recently tried to bake homemade chocolate chip cookies and they weren't as good as Toll House so I decided it was pointless to work that hard. I think I will try Wendy's recipe and see what happens!

    Holli Castillo
    Gumbo Justice

  8. WS Gager said...

    May I suggest the cookies with a cup of hot tea. Can't be beat on a cold night (or afternoon or morning with breakfast...)

    Cindy: Let me know how you like the book. I had to give a cookie recipe because of what one of the characters can get Mitch to do with just a plate of fresh cookies.

  9. Stephen L. Brayton said...

    Always good to have cookies for the upcoming holidays.

  10. jennymilch said...

    Great-looking recipe and all the way to 35 pages in from the end is an excellent endorsement!

  11. Clark Lohr said...

    Liked the review of Accidental Intersection. Got any recipes with stevia? Yeah, I know, it spoils the fun but I like the stuff. I'd like to see a recipe that goes with "Devil's Kitchen," the title of my upcoming crime novel from Oak Tree Press.
    I might be able to find my Grandmother Dingwall's raisin-oatmeal cookie recipe. Pedestrian, perhaps, but good. Clark Lohr

  12. jack59 said...

    If I wasn't trying to lose weight I would try the cookies recipe and the book reads well too: very original idea, makes the reader want to read more. Well done to both of you.
    jackleverett.me.uk

  13. Velda Brotherton said...

    So enjoyed the super review and the cookie recipe, which I'll try soon for the holidays. The book sounds as good as the cookies do.

    My mother collected recipes for 80 years and I put a lot of them in a book called Arkansas Meals and Memories. Mmm, maybe I should feature one on my blog everytime I do a review. How would that be?

  14. J Q Rose said...

    What a great review. I am with Martha in trying to figure out the ending...I was wrong with all my choices!! It is a great read. I will have to try the cookie recipe too definitely with a cup of tea...

  15. WS Gager said...

    The holidays are coming and I need to swear off cookies too, but they are really hard to resist and I have no will power. The same goes for a good book, I just can't put it down. Thank you all for posting a comment and I do hope you enjoy the cookies, at least a small nibble to taste. There can't be any calories in a nibble, can there? Santa says no.

  16. Becke Davis said...

    Thanks for sharing the receipe - sounds yummy!

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