BAILEY
RUTH'S OLD-FASHIONED OKLAHOMA CORN BREAD
1 c. yellow corn
meal
2 t. baking
powder
3/4 t. salt
3/4 c. milk
1 egg1 Tbsp oil
Butter round baking pan. Cook
at 425 degrees for 30 min.
Ghost Gone Wild - Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir,
Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish
Excerpt from GHOST GONE WILD: I was afraid I was
beginning to understand. The telegram from Wiggins had been
counterfeit. Nick's aunt Dee had nosed about the department and found my
name. Any thriller writer would consider it child's play to purloin
information from Wiggins's old-fashioned paper files, which were kept in
accommodatingly unlocked wooden filing cabinets. It was possible she
sometimes served as an emissary. However, Wiggins was always insistent
that emissaries not contact family members who knew them... In any event, if
she'd wanted to send help to Nick, obviously she would have hunted about in the
files for someone connected to Adelaide, and so she had sent the spurious telegram
and waylaid me as I was en route.
Bailey Ruth arrives in Adelaide, OK, to help out Nick,
who became the target of a bullet within minutes after her arrival at his
house. Luckily Bailey Ruth was able to push him out of the way before the
bullet struck him. Bailey Ruth tries to convince him to call the
police but his cell phone is missing. And then people started appearing
due to a text that was supposedly sent to them by Nick. Jan, Nick's girl
friend, showed up but wasn't thrilled to see that another woman was
there. After some fast thinking, Bailey Ruth was able to calm her
down. That is until Lisa showed up due to her text from Nick which
invited her to come over. And then the third person showed up... Lisa's
husband demanding to know where she was. All arrived 'after' the shot was
taken at Nick. Did the shooter want to implicate these three in the
killing of Nick? Well, thanks to Bailey Ruth saving him, the shooter's
idea was spoiled and Bailey Ruth now had some possible suspects.
Author Carolyn Hart has done her usual in writing another
fun-filled story of suspense, murder, humor and spirits. Oh, did I forget
to tell you that Bailey Ruth is a ghost? From time to time she is allowed
to descend upon earth to help a person in danger. This is normally done
through Wiggins but in this case the person, or should I say ghost, that
sent Bailey Ruth to earth is Dee, Nick's aunt who decides she has to keep an
eye out and make sure Bailey Ruth does everything correctly to save her nephew.
Problem is, with Dee being the one to send Bailey to earth, she has no control
over her abilities to appear and disappear, so once Bailey Ruth appeared, she
was unable to disappear and with Wiggins not knowing of her descent, she became
OF the earth and not ON the earth.
This series is one that I keep an eye out for the next Bailey Ruth
story to hit the shelves. The characters are always so real, including
Bailey Ruth, to the point that you actually feel that you know them as
neighbors. Now I "patiently" wait for the next volume to see
what Bailey gets herself into next.