You've just stuffed yourself with once-a-year Thanksgiving delicacies, gone a few times around the Monopoly board with friends and family gathered together, and now all you want to do is lie down for a nap before gearing up for Black Friday.
Or maybe you'd rather retire to your most comfortable easy chair with Kindle in hand and reading in mind. If mysteries are your cup of tea, consider these Thanksgiving-themed puzzlers for postprandial holiday reading:
A Catered Thanksgiving, by Isis Crawford. Kensington Books, 2011. Print Length: 321 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (6 reviews). Kindle edition $5.38. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Whipping up Thanksgiving dinner can be stressful for anyone, but that goes double for the Field family. Everything has to be perfect, or they risk getting cut out of dominating patriarch Monty's lucrative will. That's where sisters Bernie and Libby's catering company, A Little Taste of Heaven, comes in. Surely with their lumpless mashed potatoes and to-die-for gravy, even the super-dysfunctional Fields can get along for one meal. But no one can dress up disaster when the turkey goes boom right in Monty's scowling face, sending him to that great dining room in the sky. With everyone harboring their own cornucopia of secrets, discovering who wanted to carve up Monty won't be easy. Worse, the Field Mansion is draped under a snowstorm, trapping them with a killer determined to get more than his piece of the pie." - Publisher.
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme, by Krista Davis. Berkley, 2008. Print Length: 308 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (47 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Few can compete with Natasha Smith when it comes to entertaining, but her childhood rival, Sophie Winston, certainly tries. Natasha may have stolen the spotlight - and Sophie’s husband - but Sophie is determined to rob her of the prize for the Stupendous Stuffing Shakedown. She just needs the right ingredient. But Sophie’s search for the perfect turkey takes a basting when she stumbles across a corpse. And when the police find her name and photo inside the victim’s car, Sophie will have to set her trussing aside to solve the murder - or she’ll be serving up prison grub." - Publisher.
Murder She Wrote: A Fatal Feast, by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain. Based on the Universal television series created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link. NAL, 2010. Print Length: 288 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Jessica Fletcher would like to relax as Thanksgiving comes to Cabot Cove, but she's hosting a bountiful dinner for an ever-growing guest list. She couldn't be happier with the results - until she stumbles upon a body with a carving knife stuck in its chest..." - Publisher.
A Killer Crop, by Sheila Connolly. Berkley, 2010. Print Length: 306 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (15 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When Meg Corey’s mother arrives unannounced in Granford, Massachusetts, Meg’s sure it’s not just to pay a surprise visit to the apple of her eye. The timing is terrible - it’s harvest season and Meg is understaffed in the orchard. Plus Elizabeth Corey is clearly hiding the real purpose of her trip from her daughter. After an English professor from Amherst - and an old friend of her mother - is found dead on the floor of a cider house, Elizabeth is interrogated by the police, and then grilled by her daughter. She is indeed keeping a secret - but could Meg’s own mother really have committed murder?" - Author's web site.
The Risk of Fortune: A Dr. Risk Mystery, by Bob Berger. Xlibris, 2000. Print Length: 174 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $0.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"On Thanksgiving Day, Dr. Risk's dad loses big at the world’s largest casino on America’s smallest Indian reservation. James Denny, aka Dr. Risk, writes a weekly column on everyday risks for a New York tabloid, and must win the money back and solve two murders... The setting, based on Foxwoods Casino and the Pequot tribe, is Bearforest Casino in Connecticut. Called by his mom to help, the columnist tries to force his dad to face a gambling addiction that seems to mock his profession. When the second murder of a tribe member occurs, the Indian nation hires Dr. Risk to solve the killings; they’ll wipe clean his dad’s debt if he does. But Dr. Risk’s investigation stirs up a hornet’s nest..." - Publisher.
The Pumpkin Muffin Murder, by Livia Washburn. NAL, 2011. Print Length: 306 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (11 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Phyllis is taking care of her grandson Bobby while her son Mike and daughter-in-law Sarah are out of town. Carolyn gets Phyllis involved in the harvest festival to be held in one of the city parks the Saturday before Thanksgiving. The purpose of the festival is to help feed the poor and homeless. Much like the peach festival held in the summer, there are games and rides and craft displays, as well as food vendors, a Thanksgiving cooking contest, and of course murder." - Author's web site.
Murder at Plimoth Plantation, by Leslie Wheeler. Belgrave House, 2011. Print Length: 204 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $3.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When a living history museum turns deadly right before Thanksgiving, armchair historian, Miranda Lewis, becomes an amateur sleuth. At Plimoth Plantation, the famous seventeenth-century village where her niece works as an interpreter, Miranda discovers protesting Indians, hostile Pilgrims, and finally a grisly murder. With her niece under suspicion, Miranda struggles to prove her innocent and ends up face to face with a ruthless killer." - Publisher.
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