A Clue in the Stew

Soup shop owner Lucky Jamieson stirs up more trouble in the latest mystery from the national bestselling author of Ladle to the Grave.

When Lucky Jamieson opens up By the Spoonful to host an event with a famous author, she’s not expecting a bunch of nuts to descend on her small-town soup shop. But the author’s exasperating entourage-from a prickly publicist to a snippy son and his tipsy wife-give fresh meaning to the phrase, too many cooks spoil the broth.

The evening is more than spoiled, however, when it ends with a homicide. When the manner of the murder-as well as another recent unsolved crime-echoes the author’s fiction, Lucky needs to stir up some clues to catch a cunning killer-before things really take a tureen for the worse…