This is the 4th Amanda Pepper mystery - and I enjoyed it very much. I find the writing to be clever, even if the plot is sometimes a little see-through. There is always a twist or two to keep you guessing.

Any book that can keep you attention & have you smiling to yourself & chuckling out loud is a book to recommend to others!

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Amanda Pepper, sleuthing high-school English teacher at Philly Prep, is dragooned into attending a birthday party for her mother's old friend Lyle Zacarias, a well-known playwright. Oddly, none of his guests seem to like him--more the opposite. But who caused him to drop dead in the middle of his birthday speech? Certainly not Amanda's mother, Bea, whose birthday tarts were both delicious and deadly. Naturally, Amanda cannot rest until her mother is cleared...

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Lyle Zachariias, a well known playwright, comes to Philadephia to throw himself a birthday party. During the party he drops dead, having eaten a poison tart. All the guests are suspect. Amanda Pepper, an amateur sleuth, looks for the guilty party. This is a discontinued library book,

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