A Deadly Grind, Victoria Hamilton
A Deadly Grind, Victoria Hamilton
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A Deadly Grind

Author: Victoria Hamilton

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/28/2013


Synopsis

When vintage cookware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton spies an original 1920s Hoosier brand kitchen cabinet at an estate auction, it's love at first sight. Despite the protests of her sister that the 19th-century yellow-brick house they share in Michigan is already too cluttered with Jaymie's "junk," she successfully outbids the other buyers and triumphantly takes home her Hoosier.

But that night on the summer porch where they've left the Hoosier to be cleaned up, a man is murdered, struck on the head with the steel meat grinder that is part of the cabinet. Who is this stranger—and what was he doing on their porch? Does his death have anything to do with the Hoosier?

As the police struggle to determine the man's identity, Jaymie can't help doing a little digging on her own, accompanied by her three-legged Yorkie Poo, Hopalong. But in her bid to uncover the truth about the hidden secrets of the Hoosier, Jaymie may be the one who ends up going, going . . . gone.

About Victoria Hamilton

As Victoria Hamilton, Donna Lea Simpson is the nationally bestselling author of the Vintage Kitchen Mystery series, including No Mallets Intended and Freezer I'll Shoot, as well as the Merry Muffin Mystery series, including Muffin but Murder and Bran New Death. She also writes the Teapot Collector Mysteries as Amanda Cooper.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on July 14, 2017

I hadn't been reading in a while and needed a new series. I was enjoying other cooking type cozy series and decided to give this one a chance. Decent first start, I'll check out the rest. I love kitchen / cooking stories... and antiques... so this kinda fit in. Characters weren't as memorable as I w......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on June 22, 2012

I know that cozy mysteries are designed to revolve around the people and the community with the dead body being a secondary image. In my person opinion, I think that Victoria Hamilton has gone too far with the description of the town and their festivities, has too many characters to keep straight an......more

Goodreads review by Vicky on June 10, 2012

I am more than half-way through the book and I get so irritated by the procrastination. if one wants the murder on their backporch solved, you just don't procrastinate when you find evidence. this draws me out of the story and causes me to nearly put the book aside and begin a new read. I am going t......more

Goodreads review by Berit☀️✨ on September 13, 2017

This book was just OK for me... For me the draw to a cozy mystery is usually the fantastic characters... The characters in this book weren't bad, they were just unmemorable.. there just needed to be some more quirk in this quirky town.... The most interesting character for me in this book was the Hoo......more

Goodreads review by Linda on June 10, 2015

This is my first encounter with this author in this form. Apparently, it's her nom de plume for this new series. The vintage cooking theme interested me since I love cooking, baking and all the gadgets--old and new. Sadly, this disappoints. It includes the usual dog, almost always a rescue dog of som......more