1
cup finely chopped walnuts
3 Tbsp. honey
pinch of salt
3 Tbsp. honey
pinch of salt
Preheat
oven to 350 degrees. Combine walnuts, honey
and salt in a bowl. Toss to coat, and
spread in a single layer onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake, tossing occasionally, until toasted,
about 15 minutes. Let cool.
Murder
a la Christie - Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat;
Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish
"Write
that book if you dare, but you won't live to see it in print!" I stared at the two older women - the usually
subdued Gerda Stein, her face flushed with anger, and my dear friend Sylvia -
but neither seemed aware that I'd entered the kitchen. Sylvia shook her head in dismay. "I've no wish to upset you, but your
father's story is the keystone of my book.
He was a Nazi, Gerda, and responsible for killing thousands of innocent
people." "I know what my
father was!" Fury made Gerda's
German accent more pronounced. "But
I told you about him in confidence. Not
so you'd write about it and expose him to the world!"
Sylvia
and Gerda are members of the Golden Age of Mystery Book Club led by Professor
Lexie Driscoll. The group will be
discussing the works of authors such as Agatha Christie. Lexie's walks in on Sylvia and Gerda's heated
discussion just before the club's first meeting. Hopefully the two will tone down their anger
enough to get through the discussion and even contribute a bit. This isn't to be. When Sylvia starts to complain of stomach
pain, the meeting is brought to a halt.
Sylvia dies, and Lexie suspects she's been poisoned. She finds herself following Christie's
methods of solving the murder of not one but several of the club's members. Could someone be living out Christie's book And Then There Were None?
I
loved this Author's style of writing. It
was like reading an Agatha Christie book in the way it kept me guessing. I would come up with a suspect that actually
had a motive only to change my mind when I found one that had an even greater
motive. I kept remembering the Christie
books I'd read in the past, and the
murderer seemed to always be the one person I didn't suspect. This made it hard for me to put this book
down until I found the guilty person.
This was truly a fun read.
Martha,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for having me here on your blog. Both Lexie and I love those honeyed walnuts. In fact, I'm going to make a batch tonight.
What a lovely review. If I wasn't on an almost-no-carb diet, I would try the walnuts, too. :)
ReplyDeleteI wanna tag it now.! Great opening! ! And now I have a recipe for some walnuts leftover from another dish. Yum!
ReplyDelete* tag it for reading. .. Smart Phone changed read to tag. Gotta track down a copy of it now.
DeleteFun review!
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