A brand new finger-lickin' good mystery featuring small-town Georgia
spice shop owner Piper Prescott, a smart and spunky amateur sleuth.
Spices are flying off the shelves of Spice It Up!, and Piper Prescott
couldn't be happier. It's that time of year again--time for the annual
Brandywine Creek Barbecue Festival. Soon contestants and BBQ aficionados
from all over the Southeast will converge on the town. Many of
Brandywine Creek's citizens plan to participate in the week-long
festivities and are busily concocting savory rubs and sassy sauces.
Among the locals vying for the grand prize are Becca Dapkins and
Maybelle Humphries. The women have been arch enemies ever since Buzz
Oliver dumped Maybelle after a 13-year courtship and started seeing
Becca. When Becca's body is found near one of the festival booths,
bludgeoned by a brisket, Maybelle becomes one of Chief Wyatt McBride's
top suspects. Determined to help clear her friend's name, Piper begins
her own investigation, much to McBride's consternation. As the festival
draws closer, will Piper and Reba Mae be able to find the real killer
and clear Maybelle's name? Will Piper make it to the annual shag contest
with Doug Winters, the mild-mannered vet she's been seeing? And, who
will win the BBQ cook-off?
