A Catered New Years Eve, Isis Crawford
A Catered New Years Eve, Isis Crawford
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A Catered New Year's Eve
(A Mystery With Recipes)

Author: Isis Crawford

Narrator: Margaret Strom

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/29/2019

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are reunited with a distant relative who wants them to cater a New Year's Eve event—and help find a guilty party . . .

It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family—though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner, which happened within hours of each other—and were both ruled accidental.

Ada thinks otherwise—and has a plan. On New Year's Eve, she'll gather a group of guests and read from a diary she's found in her mother's attic that she thinks will expose the culprit. The Simmons sisters agree to provide refreshments for the bash, and when the night arrives, Ada's ready to count down to a confession. But as midnight approaches, a guest drops dead. It looks like the menu tonight includes champagne and cyanide . . .

In the tumult, the diary disappears. When Ada is arrested for murder, she'll have to hope that Bernie and Libby can provide a resolution before the clock runs out.

About Isis Crawford

Isis Crawford was born in Egypt to parents who were in the diplomatic corps. When she was five, her family returned to the States, where her mother opened a restaurant in Upper Westchester County and her father became a university professor. Since then Isis has combined her parents' love of food and travel by running a catering service as well as penning numerous travel-related articles about places ranging from Omsk to Paraguay. Married, with twin boys, she presently resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where she is working on the next Bernie and Libby culinary mystery.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalia on October 18, 2019

Sisters Libby and Bernie are contacted by their cousin Ada Sinclair, who wants their help to investigate the suspicious deaths of her father and his business partner which occurred ten years ago. She invites the sisters into her home to cater a New Year 's Eve party in the hopes that they will uncov......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on December 04, 2019

This book was hard to get into. the two sisters are asked to cater a New year’s party for some long estranged cousins. Their dad doesn’t want them to do it and makes a bet that it would be a disaster.Ada insists that the death of her father and his business partner hours apart was murder and she has......more

Goodreads review by Kirsti on December 17, 2019

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read this book. Overall this was disappointing. It has many elements of a traditional cozy, but lacks a real thread to tie everything together. The theme of food/catering could be good, and I did enjoy when the sisters talked of food and thei......more

Goodreads review by Paula on January 09, 2021

I loved the conversations in this book. Very entertaining. A good mystery too.......more

Goodreads review by The Cozy Review on October 22, 2019

Series: A Mystery with Recipes – Book 15 Author: Isis Crawford Genre: Cozy Mystery/ Culinary/Holiday Publisher: Kensington Books Page Count: 320 From Isis Crawford comes the 15th book in the “A Mystery with Recipes,” a holiday-themed cozy, A Catered New Year’s Eve published by Kensington Books. Bernie an......more