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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #5"Bubbling over with mirth and mystery." –Dorothy Cannell
"A delicious treat." –Carolyn G. Hart
Even though new husband, Aaron (Pooky Bear!), is away, Magdalena Yoder, proprietor of the prosperous Penn-Dutch Inn, is still in a honeymoon haze...until she's pulled in by Police Chief Stolzfus (her nemesis!) to help investigate the sad demise of an Asian tourist – run over by a horse and buggy!
But things really show more start to sizzle when it's revealed that the victim was strangled first. And when a young Amish lad is shot, Magdalena must really use her noodle, lest she foul up her first officially deputized investigation. Added to that stress is shocking news from her Pooky Bear that shakes her world.
But trust Magdalena to leap from wok to frying pan without a single scorch!. show less
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Another in the Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries. This one Magadalena helps to investigate the killing of a young Asian woman who is found in the middle of the road downtown. During this one she also finds out that here marriage to Aaron is null and void as he is/was married to another woman as well. Another light fun mystery from Tamar Myers.
I normally enjoy this series but didn't like this one. The mystery of who killed a Chinese woman found on a road inhernia is shoved aside for most of the book until the hasty solution at the end. the turn Magdalena's personal life takes in this book annoyed me.
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Tamar Myers was born and raised in the Belgian Congo (now just the Congo). Her parents were missionaries. She was sixteen when her family settled in America. In college she began to submit novels for publication, but it took 23 years for her to get published. Persistence paid off, however, because Tamar is now the author of two ongoing mystery show more series. One is set in Pennsylvania and features Magdalena Yoder, an Amish-Mennonite sleuth who runs a bed and breakfast in the mythical town of Hernia. The other is set in the Carolinas and centers around the adventures of Abigail Timberlake, the proud owner of a Charlotte (and later Charleston) antique store, the Den of Antiquity. Tamar now calls Charlotte, NC home. She lives with her husband, plus a Basenji dog, a Bengal cat, and an orange tabby rescue cat. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Between a Wok and a Hard Place
- Original publication date
- 1998-03-01
- People/Characters
- Magdalena Yoder
- Important places
- Hernia, Pennsylvania, USA; Pennsylvania, USA
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- 189
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- Reviews
- 2
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- (3.47)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 2
