Execution in E

Execution in E (2020) Alexia Gordon (A Gethsemane Brown Mystery #5)

“If you don’t want me to see your fingers crossed behind your back,” she pointed to his semi-transparent hand visible through his semi-transparent torso, “you should dial up your density.”

“Ms. Markham’s parents’ money buys a great deal of tolerance of Ms. Markham. The pay is phenomenal. And I’ve convinced myself that running interference between Sunny and the rest of the world is my penance for past sins.”

“What are you, um, baking?” She picked up a pan filled with thick, lumpy batter the color of beets.

“A medieval veal and vegetable pie.”

“Rephrase. Why are you baking?”

“Saoirse’s studying the culinary history of the British Isles and Europe. We’ve reached the medieval period. Have you ever tried to convert a sixteenth-century recipe to the metric system?”

Characters: Gethsemane Brown, Eamon McCarthy, Orla McCarthy, Billy McCarthy, Francis Grennan, Father Tim Keating, Inspector Niall O’Reilly, Verna Cunningham, Vivian Cunningham, Ty Lismore, Sunny Markham, Theophilus Derringer, Brian Nishi, Malcolm Amott, Miss Rosalie Baraquin, Inspector Sutton, Ms. Agnes Haywood, Jared Ely

Published by Henery Press

Rating: 7/10

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