Books in the Holmes & Watson Culinary Whodu series

What's more delectable than a delicious murder mystery with food and drinks ... and recipes? Take one Mexican-American Heritage Day celebration, serve up a double engagement, roast hot ghost peppers, add in overly spicy seasonings, chill with icy cervezas, and watch the fireworks begin. What you get is a fiery recipe for fatal heart attacks an herbalist and an Irish food inspector/chef detective team must extinguish in a hurry. When cardiologist Dr. Norman Frank, pharmacist Larry Clay, and his brother Jimmy Clay collapse in the middle of the Cinco de Mayo party, Thomasina "Tommie" Watson and her partner Finbar Holmes use their sleuthing skills to solve the heart-stopping crimes and have the attacker arrested. Twelve hours. What can happen in twelve hours? On Monday, May 5, 1862, the Mexican Army fought from daybreak to dusk against a foreign enemy. When night fell, they had defeated the French forces at the Battle of Puebla. They suffered 83 fatalities. On Sunday, May 5, 2019, Mexican Americans in the town of Greenleaf, Florida, celebrated Cinco de Mayo from daybreak to dusk and into the night with music, feasting, drinking, dancing, and fireworks. When night fell, a battle was raged against a common enemy. Floral county suffered three fatalities-noted cardiologist Dr. Norman Frank, pharmacist Larry Clay, and local runaround Jimmy Clay-all apparent victims of massive heart attacks. What can happen in twelve hours? Controversial cardiac casualties.

What's more delectable than a delicious murder mystery with food and drinks? Take one popular midday meeting place, mix in organic herbal tea blends, sweeten with a shopkeeper's reputation, stir in unsavory suspects, and steep with a poisoned patron. What you get is a recipe for a murder-infused crime an herbalist and a food inspector/chef detective team must reme-tea. Three days. What can happen in three days? On Easter Sunday, Christians around the world celebrated the resurrection of Jesus after three days dead in the tomb. In Floribunda, Florida, when Mrs. Veranell Collins collapsed during the annual Easter Egg hide and Charity Raffle, Thomasina "Tommie" Watson and Finbar Holmes took one look at her sightless eyes staring at the ceiling of the Confederate Memorial Park Gazebo and knew: Veranell Collins would not rise from the dead. What can happen in three days? Homicide. When Mrs. Collins dies at the microphone in the gazebo at the Easter Charity Raffle, herbalist Thomasina "Tommie" Watson and her friend Finbar Holmes use their sleuthing skills to solve a decidedly uncharitable crime!