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Today I'm featuring a recipe from

Book 5 in the Country Store Mysteries

DEATH OVER EASY

by

Maddie Day

(aka Edith Maxwell)

Restaurateur Robbie Jordan is ready for the boost in business a local music festival brings to South Lick, Indiana, but the beloved event strikes a sour note when one of the musicians is murdered . . .
 
June’s annual Brown County Bluegrass Festival at the Bill Monroe Music Park in neighboring Beanblossom is always a hit for Robbie’s country store and café, Pans ‘N Pancakes. This year, Robbie is even more excited, because she’s launching a new bed and breakfast above her shop. A few festival musicians will be among Robbie’s first guests, along with her father, Roberto, and his wife, Maria. But the celebration is cut short when a performer is found choked to death by a banjo string. Now all the banjo players are featured in a different kind of lineup. To clear their names, Robbie must pair up with an unexpected partner to pick at the clues and find the plucky killer before he can conduct an encore performance . . .
 
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On to the recipe!

FRIED APPLES

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In Death Over Easy (release date July 31), Robbie Jordan and her assistant Danna prepare fried apples as a breakfast special to celebrate the bluegrass festival, because the dish is a specialty of the Bluegrass state, Kentucky.

Makes 6 to 8 servings

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter, cubed

6 medium unpeeled tart red apples, sliced

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions:

   Melt butter in a large cast-iron or other oven-proof skillet. 

   Add apples and 1/2 cup sugar; stir to mix well. Cover and cook over low heat for 20 minutes or until apples are tender, stirring frequently. 

   Add cinnamon and remaining sugar. Cook and stir over medium-high heat 5 minutes.

Enjoy warm on top of your French toast or pancakes, or as a topping for vanilla ice cream!

Be honest. 

How many of you are heading out to buy apples the first chance you get?

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About Maddie

Agatha- and Macavity-nominated Edith Maxwell writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Foods Mysteries, and award-winning short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she writes the Country Store Mysteries and a new 2019 series, the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. Maxwell is president of Sisters in Crime New England, co-chair of the New England Crime Bake conference, and lives north of Boston with her beau, two elderly cats, and an impressive array of garden statuary.

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The Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda's Voice

Rules: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that's okay.) *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you. *Post it.

My Book Beginnings

A crow scratched out a call from a tall black maple at the edge of the music festival seating area. A shiver rippled through me, but I shook it off. I don't believe in bad omens.

My Friday 56% 

I hurried through my apartment to the back door.

And sucked in a harsh breath. Scratch marks surrounded the metal plate that held the keyhole and handle to the door.

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