White Colander Crime

Written by Victoria Hamilton

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

Queensville has great expectations for their Dickens Days festival. A tourist-trade boom means a big turnout for the opening of Queensville Historic Manor and for Jaymie Leighton, food columnist and vintage cookware collector, a chance to promote the manor and give away homemade goodies. At the end of a long day of festival fun, Jaymie discovers the battered body of local woman Shelby Fretter.

Shelby predicted her own murder in journal entries, and all clues point to Cody Wainwright, the troubled son of Jaymie's beleaguered newspaper editor. But considering that the entire Fretter family had its share of dirty secrets, Jaymie's not convinced by the case against Cody. With twists all over, she's going to have to work like the Dickens to wrap up this investigation before Christmas-especially with the real killer ready to kill again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Dec 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781494589677

Victoria Hamilton

Victoria Hamilton is the pseudonym of nationally bestselling romance author Donna Lea Simpson.She now happily writes about vintage kitchen collecting, muffin baking, and dead bodies in the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries and Merry Muffin Mystery series. Besides writing about murder and mayhem, and blogging at Killer Characters, Victoria collects vintage kitchen wares and old cookbooks, as well as teapots and teacups.

Reviews for White Colander Crime

[beth3511 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Liked the setting and supporting characters. The main character seemed a little bland. This town is more ethnically diverse than most small midwestern towns I know of! Nitpick, but it threw me off: author doesn't seem to realize just how early the sun sets in the upper Midwest in December. One scene, late in the book, has people wandering around a "cut your own" Christmas tree farm, at a time when the sun would have set.

[carolee888 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Great cozy! I love, love the cover, it sets the mood for mystery. Jaymie Leighton, has an interesting view of life. Instead of being impassioned about writing, she is more interested in people. Not thinking that a wrong person should be convicted of a crime, she is persuaded by her employer to investigate the murder of Shelby, the girl friend of her employer'son. The little that she observed of him did not lead her to like him. Short tempered, Cody and she had actually seen him hit Shelby!Her love interest, Jakob had been married and abandoned, leaving him to take cate of their daughter, Jocie, a sweet and intelligent little girl with a form of dwarfism.The mystery has a lot of twists and turns and I followed most of it but got a little bit lost when it came to actual murderer. The story was very enjoyable, I got a little lost when if came to who the murderer was but a true delight to read.