Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder - Softcover

3.49

61 ratings by Goodreads

9780425168905: Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425168905 ISBN 13: 9780425168905

Publisher: Berkley Trade, 1999

An entertaining assortment of short fiction for Mother's Day features mystery tales with a maternal twist, from Nancy Pickard, Joan Hess, Lia Matera, Margaret Maron, Susan Dunlap, Ed Gorman, Jeremiah Healy, Gillian Roberts, and other notable authors. Original.

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From Publishers Weekly:

The former president of Sisters in Crime serves up 16 original stories that involve mothers and apple pies, plus 10 recipes featuring apples. One of the best entries is Margaret Maron's haunting "Growth Marks," in which a woman and her married son reconcile an old sorrow when she moves to a new home. Ed Gorman also makes a notable contribution, with "Mom and Dad at Home," an eerie story about a boy who discovers the grim secret behind his parents' difficult marriage. A lonely, handicapped woman becomes phone pals with a charming killer in Angela Zeman's magical "Hello?" and Pickard herself pens a poignant tale about a nurse's aide who suspects a patient's family of foul play in "Out of Africa." A few of the stories, however, such as Joan Hess's lackluster "The Maggody Files: Death in Bloom," slip below par, and many of the tales rely more on trick endings than on smart suspense. This isn't the sweetest showing, then, but the recipesAincluding for Mom's Brandied Apple BabiesAprovide a nice bonus.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

Mom, Apple Pie, And Murder ($13.00 paperback original; May; 320 pp.; 0-425-16890-5): Rising to the challenge of giving mom and apple pie a `90s edge, this collection of 16 new stories (by Susan Dunlap, Ed Gorman, Linda Grant, Jeremiah Healy, Joan Hess, Margaret Maron, Gillian Roberts, Sarah Shankman, Marilyn Wallace, Carolyn Wheat, editor Pickard, and other sons and daughters)and ten appended apple recipeshas arrived just in time for Mother's Day, though not in time for a proper review. Sorry, Mom. -- Copyright �1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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