Tamar Myers

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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes - PennDutch Mysteries #9 When kindly Lizzie Mast, a local Amish woman-and Hernia's worst cook-is found poisoned by a bad plate of crepes, bumbling local police chief, Melvin Stoltzfus, begs Magdalena Yoder, the irrepressible owner (and sleuth extraordinaire!) of the PennDutch Inn, to help him investigate. With her bed and breakfast full of quirky guests, and her handsome new boyfriend to entertain, Magdalena isn't sure she has time for Stoltzfus's foolery. Cleverly (and frugally!) she puts her seven guests on A.L.P.O. (the Amish Lifestyle Plan Option), where guests pay an additional fee for the opportunity to cook for themselves, clean for themselves and do Magdalena's chores for her. Still, solving the crime won't be a plate of flapjacks; Lizzie's husband blames the neighbor's 'Amish gone wild' sons; whose rumschpringa exploits are wreaking havoc but even more shocking, the trail of clues leads straight back to the PennDutch Inn...and Magdalena fears that this killer is cooking up something flat-out deadly!!!

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Tamar Myers was born and raised in the Belgian Congo (now just the Congo). Her parents were missionaries to a tribe which, at that time, were known as headhunters and used human skulls for drinking cups. Hers was the first white family ever to peacefully coexist with the tribe, and Tamar grew up fluent in the local trade language. Because of her pale blue eyes, Tamar's nickname was Ugly Eyes. Tamar grew up eating elephant, hippopotamus, and even monkey. She attended a boarding school that was two days away by truck, and sometimes it was necessary to wade through crocodile-infested waters to reach it. Other dangers she encountered as a child were cobras, deadly green mambas, and the voracious armies of driver ants that ate every animal (and human) that didn't get out of their way. In 1960 the Congo, which had been a Belgian colony, became an independent nation. There followed a period of retribution (for heinous crimes committed against the Congolese by the Belgians) in which many Whites were killed. Tamar and her family fled the Congo, but returned a year later. By then a number of civil wars were raging, and the family's residence was often in the line of fire. In 1964, after living through three years of war, the family returned to the United States permanently. Tamar was sixteen when her family settled in America, and she immediately underwent severe culture shock. She didn't know how to dial a telephone, cross a street at a stoplight, or use a vending machine. She lucked out, however, by meeting her husband, Jeffrey, on her first day at an American high school. They literally bumped heads while he was leaving, and she entering, the Civics classroom. In college Tamar began to submit novels for publication, but it took twenty-three years for her to get published. Persistence paid off, however, because Tamar is the author of two mystery series. One is set in Pennsylvania and features Magdalena Yoder, an Amish-Mennonite sleuth who runs a bed and breakfast in the mythical town of Hernia. The other is set in the Carolinas and centers around the adventures of Abigail Timberlake, the proud owner of a Charlotte (and later Charleston) antique store, the Den of Antiquity. Tamar and her husband moved to the Carolinas in 1993, and knew immediately that this is where they belong-this is home. Tamar enjoys gardening (she is a Master Gardner), travel, painting and, of course, reading. She loves Thai and Indian food, and antiqueing. She and her husband have been to 59 countries, and have yet to decide which will be number 60.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYLA
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781625177155
• Artikelnr.: 42900924