Assault and Pepper

Tamar Myers

New American Library, 2005 - Fiction - 227 pages

At the annual church chili supper, Reverend Schrock falls face down into his bowl. It seems someone put peanut butter in the chili, knowing full well that he was allergic.

As Pennsylvania Dutch Innkeeper Magdalena Yoder investigates, she finds plenty of people who wanted the reverend dead, including a serial monogamist with a grudge and a wrongly-accused man whom the reverend testified against. As more motives emerge, Magdalena struggles to find the truth amidst evidence that is all too quickly becoming a five-alarm frenzy.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 5
• Section 3: 16

About the author

Tamar Myers was born and raised in the Belgian Congo (now just the Congo). Her parents were missionaries. She was sixteen when her family settled in America. In college she began to submit novels for publication, but it took 23 years for her to get published. Persistence paid off, however, because Tamar is now the author of two ongoing mystery series. One is set in Pennsylvania and features Magdalena Yoder, an Amish-Mennonite sleuth who runs a bed and breakfast in the mythical town of Hernia. The other is set in the Carolinas and centers around the adventures of Abigail Timberlake, the proud owner of a Charlotte (and later Charleston) antique store, the Den of Antiquity. Tamar now calls Charlotte, NC home. She lives with her husband, plus a Basenji dog, a Bengal cat, and an orange tabby rescue cat.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Assault and Pepper; Volume 13 of Magdalena Yoder Mysteries; Penn Dutch Murder Mysteries; Book 13 of Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Series, Tamar Myers; Volume 13 of Pennsylvania Dutch
• Author: Tamar Myers
• Publisher: New American Library, 2005
• ISBN: 0451213947, 9780451213945
• Length: 227 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Amish & Mennonite; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths