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Eggs in Purgatory: A Cackleberry Club Mystery (Cackleberry Club Mysteries)

by Laura Childs

Published: 2008-12-02
Mass Market Paperback : 289 pages

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Introduction

Now Laura Childs is cracking a whole new case of murder in a brand new series?RECIPES INCLUDED.

Introducing the Cackleberry Club Mysteries...

Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lose their husbands but find independence when they open the Cackleberry Club. Then their cozy cafe becomes the scene of a crime when a lawyer dies with a secret on his lips and egg on his face. What this all has to do with a religious cult and Suzanne?s past could put her own life on the line.

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Excerpt

CHAPTER 1
Suzanne Deitz didn't set out to start the Cackleberry Club, the whole thing just sort of happened. The ramshackle white-washed building with the tangle of wild roses and stack of antique egg crates out front actually began life as an unassuming Spur station on Highway 65, just outside the small town of Kindred. Truckers stopped there to buy diesel, empty their bladders, and stock up on Slim Jims. Underage teenaged boys tried to wheedle six-packs of Schlitz. And on Sundays, folks from the Journey's End Church of Ultimate Repentance came by after morning services for ice cream. Probably, raspberry swirl and peppermint bon bon brought cooling relief from a sermon rife with hellfire and brimstone. ...

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Discussion Questions

Do you think the title of the book offers a clue to its content?

What is the starting point of the book - the one action that gets the story rolling?

Do you think Sheriff Doogie is Suzanne's adversary - or her friend?

Are there any characters that you identify with? Any characters you particularly like or dislike - and why?

Which character do you think offers the most comedic interest?

Laura Childs' Eggs in Purgatory is a classic “cozy,” written in the spirit of Agatha Christie. Why do you think many women prefer this kinder, gentler type of mystery?

Why do you suppose many women want to be entrepreneurs like Suzanne, Toni, and Petra? And why do many women prefer to own smaller, more manageable businesses?

Do you think the Cackleberry Club plays out as a “character” in this book?

Do you think the author has succeeded in creating a “sense of place?”

What is the over-riding theme of the book? Justice, faith, friendship? Has the author used any repeating images or symbolism?

Novels are much like three-act plays. There is an opening act, a middle
act, and a concluding act. Where do you think these “break points”
occur?

If you were going to create a new egg dish, what would it be?

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Notes From the Author to the Bookclub

If you haven't met Suzanne and her friends at the Cackleberry Club yet, you're in for a treat with Eggs in Purgatory. Suzanne isn't your basic cozy heroine - she's recently widowed, just launched her café, is “mom” to her aging dog Baxter, and (good heavens!) a little past forty. She's also an intelligent, focused amateur sleuth who doesn't rely on “coincidences” or inept police work to solve crimes. In fact, she's buckthorn in the side of Sheriff Doogie, who does his small-town best to solve two seemingly unrelated murders. But as Suzanne serves up her bodacious bacon quiche along with a side of advice to Doogie, she gets pulled into the killings, locks horns with a vicious widow, and is harassed by a messianic cult leader who just might lead to the club's undoing. Halfway between a cozy and a thriller (a thrillsy!) Eggs in Purgatory offers an exciting read with tea, knitting, cake decorating, a dash of spirituality, and good sleuthing with three women who are over forty and proud of it. You'll also flip over Cackleberry Club recipes like cherry pie muffins and drunken pecan chicken

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