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Peach Clobbered

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by Anna Gerard
Jane Oppenheimer
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Nina Fleet's life ought to be as sweet as a Georgia peach. Awarded a tidy sum in her divorce, Nina retired at forty-one to a historic Queen Anne house in quaint Cymbeline, Georgia. But Nina's barely settled into her new B&B-to-be when a penguin shows up on her porch...or, at least, a man wearing a penguin suit. Harry Westcott is making ends meet as an ice-cream shop's mascot and has a letter from his great-aunt, pledging to leave him the house...too bad that's not what her will says. Meanwhile, the Sisters of Perpetual Poverty have lost their lease. Real-estate developer Gregory Bainbridge intends to turn the convent into a golfing community, so Cymbeline's mayor persuades Nina to take in the elderly nuns. And then Nina finds the "penguin" again, this time lying in an alley with a kitchen knife in his chest. A peek under the beak tells Nina it's not Harry inside the costume but Bainbridge. What was he doing in Harry's penguin suit? Was the developer really the intended victim, or did the culprit mean to kill Harry? Whoever is out to stop Harry from contesting the sale of his great-aunt's house may also be after Nina, so she teams up with him to cage the killer before someone clips her wings.

  • Creators

  • Series

    A Georgia B&B Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 17, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666579116
      • File size: 279990 KB
      • Duration: 09:43:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Jane Oppenheimer captures Nina's alarm when a man in a penguin suit shows up at her door insisting that the house she just bought to serve as a B&B really belongs to him. That's what his late aunt promised, Harry claims. Shortly afterwards, Nina finds a man in a penguin costume, stabbed and dying--but it's not her would-be evictor. Instead it's the most hated man in town dressed in Harry's penguin costume. Oppenheimer takes listeners through the gamut of emotions as Nina deals with the mystery of the stabbed man, Harry's claim to her home, and the delightful group of tech-savvy nuns who move into the B&B after they're evicted from their convent. Though the story contains unrealistic premises, this audiobook will still give listeners plenty of pleasure. V.M.G. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 6, 2019
      This bright and breezy series launch from Gerard (the Black Cat Bookshop mysteries, as Ali Brandon) introduces Nina (pronounced Nine-ah) Fleet, a divorcée who moves from Atlanta to Cymbeline, Ga., where she impulsively buys a historic Queen Anne house. Soon afterward, Harry Westcott, an aspiring actor and current mascot for an ice cream company, arrives at her door dressed as a penguin, claiming that the executor of his great-aunt’s will wasn’t authorized to sell Nina the house. After he leaves, Cymbeline’s mayor arrives with the Sisters of Perpetual Poverty. Developer Gregory Bainbridge, the most hated man in town, has evicted the nuns from their convent. The mayor offers to fast-track permission for Nina to turn her house into a B&B if she agrees to immediately take in the nuns. When Bainbridge turns up dead wearing a penguin costume, things get complicated. Gerard provides it all: well-drawn characters, pithy dialogue, and enough twists and turns and shifts of motive to keep cozy fans happily playing the whodunit game. Agent: Josh Getzler, HSG Agency.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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