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Delicious and Suspicious (A Memphis BBQ Mystery Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Riley Adams (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.0 151 ratings

Book 1 of 4: Memphis BBQ Mysteries

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Welcome to Aunt Pat's barbecue restaurant, which serves up Memphis fun with a side order of murder.

Recipes included.

Named in honor of Lulu Taylor's great aunt, Aunt Pat's family-run Memphis restaurant is known for its ribs and spicy cornbread. But now the Taylor family will be known for murder...

Rebecca Adrian came to Memphis to suss out the best local BBQ for a prominent Cooking Channel Show. Trouble is, a mystery ingredient has killed her-and now all fingers are pointing to Aunt Pat's restaurant. Horrified that her family is being accused of murder, Lulu fires up her investigative skills to solve the crime before someone else gets skewered.

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In this sassy first in a new series from Adams (the pseudonym of Elizabeth Spann Craig), Lulu Taylor, owner of Aunt Pat's, a Memphis, Tenn., rib eatery, is all aflutter because the Cooking Channel has sent food scout Rebecca Adrian to check out Lulu's down-home specialties for a future show. Too bad Rebecca's searching for dirt as well as the best BBQ in Memphis. She quickly insults a number of people, including Lulu's daughter-in-law, Sara, and Lulu's son, Seb, who happens to be Rebecca's former boyfriend. When Rebecca's poisoned, chaos reigns. Lulu later uncovers the corpse of Mildred Cameron, an elderly bookseller and aspiring romance author/sleuth, who was also offended by the tart-tongued Rebecca. Aiding and abetting Lulu's investigation are the Graces, docents at Graceland, whose devotion to Elvis adds some goofy firepower to this sometimes poky paint-bythe-numbers cozy.
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About the Author

Riley Adams is the bestselling cozy mystery author of the Southern Quilting mysteries, Memphis Barbeque mysteries, and the Myrtle Clover series. She lives in Matthews, North Carolina, with her husband and two teenage children.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003NX769E
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (May 26, 2010)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 26, 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1041 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,022,239 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #8,824 in Amateur Sleuth Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #9,723 in Cozy Animal Mystery
- #16,795 in Cozy Animal Mysteries

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Elizabeth writes the Memphis Barbeque series for Penguin/Berkley (as Riley Adams), the Southern Quilting mysteries for Penguin/NAL, and the Myrtle Clover series for Midnight Ink and independently. She blogs at Mystery Writing is Murder, which was named by Writer’s Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers for 2010, 2011, and 2012.

Her most recent releases are Quilt or Innocence (June 2012) and A Body in the Backyard (October 2012.) Her next book, Knot What it Seams, releases February 5, 2013.

Elizabeth is active in the online writing community. She shares writing-related links on Twitter as @elizabethscraig and posts on craft and the publishing industry on her blog, Mystery Writing is Murder. She and Mike Fleming of Hiveword also manage the Writer’s Knowledge Base–a free search engine to help writers find resources.

As the mother of two in North Carolina, Elizabeth writes on the run as she juggles volunteering, referees play dates, drives carpools, and is dragged along as a hostage/chaperone on field trips.

Elizabeth Spann Craig (Riley Adams)

http://mysterywritingismurder.blogspot.com

http://mysteryloverskitchen.com

Twitter: @elizabethscraig

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Mary Angela Young

Great Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2020

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I truly enjoyed this mystery. It was set in my hometown of Memphis which drew me to it. And I so enjoyed reading about BBQ and Beale Street not to mention the pyramid, The Peabody and WC Handy park. I felt like I was right there in Memphis reading this book. Can't wait to dive into the next book in the series.

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Kentuckybooklover

A tasty lip-smacking mystery

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2024

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3.75 stars for me. The mystery was good but getting there was a tad bumpy.

There a slew of characters to keep straight. Almost too many for the short length of the book. Most of the characters are enjoyable. I think some have a lot of potential to be fun and interesting if handled correctly.

A few scenes were unnecessary as they drug out the book for no reason other than to show some normalcy to the characters.

I will say the food descriptions made me hungry as all get out for some red beans and rice and spicy cornbread. Plenty of recipes are included at the end of the book and I plan on making a few.

I will give book two a try when I need a southern or culinary book for my cozy mystery book bingo.

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2014

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Enjoyable and kind of fun.

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walt8800

Fun Read with a Twist

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2017

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This is the first book in a great series by Riley Adams (a pen name of Elizabeth Spann Craig). I have read most of her Quilting Mystery series and I like her Memphis BBQ series a little better. The characters are well-described and authentic, and the BBQ recipes are tasty. The book had me guessing until the end.

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ITZME

LIGHT COZY MYSTERY IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2010

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Interesting first book in a new series: Memphis BBQ Mystery. Light cozy mystery. The owner of Aunt Pat's BBQ is Lulu. The restaurant is staffed by family members. We also learn alot about the regulars at the restaurant, too - The Graces, for instance. A TV scout has come to Memphis to do a show for the Cooking Channel and she ends up poisoned. It seems that everyone except Lulu is a suspect. Fun read.

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Janet Morrissey

A Delicious Little Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2010

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This first in a new series set in Memphis has the recipe for a successful series. The very richly-drawn characters and setting really make you feel like you're in the South at Aunt Pat's barbeque restaurant. And the food talk made me drool.

There's some humor and some heartbreak and a mystery that kept me guessing until the end. I'm waiting, impatiently, for the next book in the series.

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Sandy from Kansas

New Cozy, WEAK PLOT, BURN IT!! RIDICULOUS!!!

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2010

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I try every new author in the cozy or the hard mystery/thriller genre. Almost EVERY book has some redeeming merit and plot and I can truly say that at least 75% of all that I try the first written, I go on to purchase and save most all of them. This is one, that could I "return to sender".....it would have been gone the same day I received it. Honestly everyone....IT IS THAT BAD!! Not only is the plot "unbelievable" but the writing is somewhat like a 3rd grader might put forward. I find that any publisher would print something like this in the economy we have....knowing that people can only purchase so many books a year....must have a "death wish". I for one...spend more than $600 a month every month during the year on new books.....and this author has five strikes against him in my status book list, This book is based on a very WEAK Plot, and even WEAKER characters. If a book doesn't make you happy that you either are/or have read it....For heaven's sake....never read one by them again. Our money should be spent on authors works that make us happy to have read them....and continue to make us happy.....NEVER Reward one for a book like this!!

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tj

Was ok

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2014

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I thought this book sounded way better than it was. It started out slow and the ending felt rushed. I will not buy the next book in this series.