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another great cozy mystery!

This week's recipe is from

STRANGLED EGGS AND HAM

Book 6 in the Handcrafted Mysteries

by Maddie Day

Robbie Jordan’s rustic country store is growing in popularity. But when a dead body appears, it turns out that Robbie’s home-style cooking attracts hungry customers—and murder!
 
While Robbie scrambles through breakfast orders for her expanding clientele at Pans ‘N Pancakes, tempers run as high as the sticky August heat in South Lick, Indiana. Real-estate developer Fiona Closs plans to build a towering luxury resort at one of the most scenic hilltops in Brown County, and not everyone can see the sunny side of the imposing proposition—including Robbie’s furious Aunt Adele, who doesn’t waste a minute concocting protests and road blockades. When tensions boil over and a vocal protester is silenced forever at the resort site, Robbie ditches the griddle to catch the killer. But if slashed tires are any indication, she’ll need to crack this case before her own aunt gets served something deadly next . . .  
 
Includes Recipes for You to Try!

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CUCUMBER-DILL SOUP

The steamy Indiana August is too hot for hot soup, so Robbie’s assistant Danna thinks up this creamy refreshing cold soup to serve in the restaurant for lunch. Here’s a bit of the scene from ~ Maddie

Strangled Eggs and Ham:

Danna rolled her eyes. “My mom is way excited about that resort deal. She’s thinking tax revenues, obviously.”

“She’s the mayor of South Lick. Of course she is,” I said. I thought of Lonnie’s impassioned list of reasons the resort should go forward. “I actually think the people in support of the project have some pretty good arguments on their side.”

 “I’m not getting involved,” Danna said. “But I had an idea for a lunch special. We have lots of cucumbers, and you ordered buttermilk for something, right?”

I nodded.

“I can make a great cold cucumber soup and some savory biscuits to go with. I know you have dill out in your herb garden. Okay? It’s too warm for hot soup.”

“Sounds perfect,” I said.

Ingredients

2 English cucumbers, peeled, seeded, and chopped
½ cup roughly chopped fresh dill
2 cups buttermilk
½ teaspoon kosher salt, more if needed

Dash habanero sauce
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, more if needed

Directions

   Combine all soup ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Refrigerate in a covered container for at least 2 hours. The soup can be refrigerated for longer than two hours, but be sure to give it a shake before serving as it tends to settle the longer it sits. Adjust seasonings before serving.

Readers: What’s your favorite refreshing food in sweltering weather? ~ Maddie

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Maddie Day writes the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. As Edith Maxwell, she writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Foods Mysteries, and award-winning short crime fiction. With seventeen novels in print and five more in production, Maxwell has been nominated for an Agatha Award six times. She lives north of Boston with her beau and two elderly cats, and gardens and cooks when she isn’t killing people on the page or wasting time on Facebook. Please find her at edithmaxwell.com, at the Wicked Authors blog, and elsewhere:

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installments of 

Book Beginnings on Fridays

and

The Friday 56

Both the BB and 56 are from

STRANGLED EGGS AND HAM

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Book Beginnings on Fridays is a meme hosted by Rose City Reader

Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading.

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

I plopped down on the towel. Stroking through Lake Lemon's cool water had made me forget the controversy brewing in town, at least for a while. 

My 56

What I wouldn't have given to be a fly on the wall. Or a ladybug on the table. Anything to hear what was up over there. Because something clearly was.

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