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First in a delicious new mystery series about Eva Knox and her family’s Georgia olive plantation.   In the sweet Southern town of Abundance, Georgia, home of the Knox family’s olive farm, gossip isn’t the only thing that can kill you...   After leaving a man at the altar for the second time in her life, Eva Knox decides to head home to her family’s plantation to regroup and soak in some Southern charm. But hiding from her woes is a slipperier proposition than Eva imagined. For one thing, most people in town still haven’t forgiven her for leaving local boy Buck Tanner at the altar and hightailing it up north eighteen years ago. For another, a death on her family’s farm soon makes her the lead suspect in a murder case—and the sheriff investigating is none other than Eva’s old flame Buck.   With the police putting the squeeze on her, it’s up to Eva and her sisters, Pep and Daphne, to figure out who could have possibly left a dead body in their olive grove. And they’ll have to catch the greasy killer quickly—because it looks like Eva has been picked as the murderer’s next victim...From the Paperback edition.

Eva Knox and her quirky Southern family are back in the second in the “intriguing”* culinary mystery series.   It’s the pits for the attendees of the annual Farm Family Fare in Abundance, Georgia, when olive oil farmer Eva Knox finds herself in the middle of a murder case...   Eva and the residents of Knox Plantation are oozing with excitement over the activities planned for the Farm Family Fare. The weekend event consists of two days of tours, exhibitions, music, tastings, and, most important, cooking demonstrations with celebrity chefs from the Chow Network. The enthusiasm, however, begins to dribble away after one of the star chefs goes missing—and is later found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck.   The scandal gets messier after the police discover that Eva’s sister Daphne spent the night with the victim right before he died, making her the prime suspect for his murder. It’s up to Eva, with the help of her other sister, Pep, and her best friend, Precious, to track down the real killer before Daphne finds herself squeezed into handcuffs...INCLUDES RECIPES!From the Paperback edition.

On her family''s South Georgia olive plantation, Eva Knox is on the hook for murder in the third delightful Olive Grove Mystery from the author of One Foot in the Grove and Cold Pressed Murder.On a sizzling-hot September day, Eva Knox''s ex-boyfriend, Dudley Dexter Codman the Third, along with a bunch of his corporate cronies from Boston, arrive at Eva''s family''s guest inn and olive farm, Knox Plantation. Maps and binoculars in hand, the New Englanders claim they''re on a bird-watching holiday. Only, Eva knows that her ex doesn''t know the first thing about birds. Nor does he care.Eva can''t fathom why he''d show up after all these years in her off-the-beaten-path hometown--nearly 1,200 miles from Boston. When Dudley''s body is found drowned in the pond, Eva starts fishing for answers. But she doesn''t have much time after authorities determine that her ex was poisoned by one of Eva''s family''s olive oils. She''ll have to find the real killer before her family is caught for murder.