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This Halloween, pie shop proprietor Val Harris must patch together clues to solve a murder by pumpkin . . .As the owner of Pie Town, Val's been tapped to judge the pie making contest at the annual pumpkin festival in the coastal California town of San Nicholas. Things could get sticky though—her boyfriend, cop Gordon Carmichael, is entering the competition with his "special" family pumpkin pie recipe. But Val's got bigger problems than a conflict of interest when she and her flaky show more piecrust-maker Charlene discover another contestant crushed under an enormous pumpkin.
When grudge-holding Chief Shaw comes up with a half-baked reason to toss Carmichael off the case and onto the suspect list, it's up to Val and Charlene to find the tricky killer. But as they dodge lethal pumpkin cannons and follow the clues into a figurative and literal maze, the pie pals are in for the scariest Halloween of their lives—and it may be their last . . .
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The annual Pumpkin Festival is on tap and Val is asked to judge the pumpkin pie contest. But before any pie can be tasted, Val discovers the local ophthalmologist crushed under a giant pumpkin. Was this a bizarre accident or something more sinister? How can you use a giant pumpkin as a murder weapon?
This was so much fun, and entertaining with all the usual characters and a few new ones and well-written.
This was so much fun, and entertaining with all the usual characters and a few new ones and well-written.
The Pie Town series is so well written, fans of any sort of food show on tv will appreciate the attention to all details. It's fall, so Val is tapped to be a judge in a pie contest at a pumpkin festival. The unusual weapon that crushes a contestant to death has both Val and her buddy Charlene ready to suss out suspects and motives.
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- Canonical title
- Gourd to Death
- Original publication date
- 2020
- People/Characters
- Val Harris; Gordon Carmichael; Charlene McCree; Takako Harris
- Important places
- San Nicholas, California
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- Members
- 23
- Popularity
- 1,141,951
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.79)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
