Snoop to Nuts is the second installment in the Nut House Mystery series featuring Lindy Blanchard. Miss Amelia, Lindy's Meemaw is looking forward to entering her Heavenly Texas Pecan Caviar in this years Riverville, Ag Fair. Miss Amelia has won every other blue ribbon at the fair for her fabulous Nut House recipes and wants to win for Most Original Pecan Treat.
Things don't go as hoped when Miss Amelia's treat doesn't win the blue ribbon and doesn't even receive an honorable mention. Determined to prove the judges wrong, she offers up a second sample to head judge Pastor Jenkins at the Winner's Supper. In just a matter of minutes Pastor Jenkins is dead and the evidence is pointing to Miss Amelia as the poisoner. Lindy teams up with Miss Amelia to prove her Meemaw's innocence and save the reputation of the Nut House.
The townspeople including Ethelred Tomroy, Miss Amelia's nemesis/friend have invested quite a bit of money with Hawley Harvey, investment banker and trustee of the Rushing to Calvary Independent Church. Hawley and the other board members are determined to turn the small church into a "megachurch" drawing thousands of parishioners into their flock. With the help of Deputy Hunter Austen, Lindy and Miss Amelia soon discover that there is quite a bit of sinning going on in Riverville.
It was easy to figure out whodunit and why right from the introduction of the character which was a little disappointing, but I enjoy the characters in this series and the down homey feel of the small Texas town, not to mention the delicious sounding recipes. I'm looking forward to the next in the series to see how Lindy makes out with her new batch of Pecan trees but am begging the author not to drag out the romantic tension between Lindy and Deputy Austen
Things don't go as hoped when Miss Amelia's treat doesn't win the blue ribbon and doesn't even receive an honorable mention. Determined to prove the judges wrong, she offers up a second sample to head judge Pastor Jenkins at the Winner's Supper. In just a matter of minutes Pastor Jenkins is dead and the evidence is pointing to Miss Amelia as the poisoner. Lindy teams up with Miss Amelia to prove her Meemaw's innocence and save the reputation of the Nut House.
The townspeople including Ethelred Tomroy, Miss Amelia's nemesis/friend have invested quite a bit of money with Hawley Harvey, investment banker and trustee of the Rushing to Calvary Independent Church. Hawley and the other board members are determined to turn the small church into a "megachurch" drawing thousands of parishioners into their flock. With the help of Deputy Hunter Austen, Lindy and Miss Amelia soon discover that there is quite a bit of sinning going on in Riverville.
It was easy to figure out whodunit and why right from the introduction of the character which was a little disappointing, but I enjoy the characters in this series and the down homey feel of the small Texas town, not to mention the delicious sounding recipes. I'm looking forward to the next in the series to see how Lindy makes out with her new batch of Pecan trees but am begging the author not to drag out the romantic tension between Lindy and Deputy Austen
