Cackleberry Club Mysteries · Book 1

Eggs in Purgatory

by Laura Childs

Published
1 January 2008
Pages
289
ISBN-13
9780425224953
Type
novel

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Cover of Eggs in Purgatory

About this book

Eggs in Purgatory opens Laura Childs' Cackleberry Club Mysteries in 2008, introducing recent widow Suzanne Dietz, Toni Garrett, and retired schoolteacher Petra Capelli as they convert an old Kindred, Kansas church into a combination diner, bookshop and yarn store -- and Suzanne starts finding bodies. It runs 289 pages.

Its place in Cackleberry Club Mysteries

Eggs in Purgatory is book 1 in the Cackleberry Club Mysteries series. It is followed by Eggs Benedict Arnold. See the full Cackleberry Club Mysteries reading order.

In small-town Kindred, Kansas, three women in their forties who've each hit a rough patch — recent widow Suzanne Dietz, choir-director-turned-cafe-cook Toni Garrett, and retired schoolteacher Petra Capelli — pool their savings to convert an old church into the Cackleberry Club, a combination diner, bookshop and yarn store built around Petra's egg dishes. It's a business built on reinvention, and Suzanne, restless and sharp-tongued, keeps finding bodies wherever the Club's baking, quilting or supper-club events…

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