A Catered St. Patrick’s Day: A Mystery with Recipes

Murder once again interrupts a holiday in Crawford’s diverting eighth mystery featuring sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons, the owners of A Little Taste of Heaven, a catering business in Longely, N.Y. As Bernie and Libby are preparing St. Patrick’s Day goodies one morning, an urgent call from Bernie’s boyfriend, Brandon, summons them to the bar he runs, RJ’s. There, Brandon shows the sisters a body floating in a large keg of green beer. The deceased, Mike Sweeney, was a member of the Corned Beef and Cabbage Club, which had been meeting at RJ’s. Could a drunken Mike have fallen in and drowned? When the nephew of “real estate agent extraordinaire” Bree Nottingham is arrested for Mike’s murder two weeks later, Bree asks Bernie and Libby for help in proving her nephew’s innocence. Cozy fans will appreciate the zany characters, witty dialogue, and puzzling plot. Agent: Evan Marshall. (Feb.)