Tamar Myers's early life was spent in the Belgian Congo, where her family served as missionaries to a tribe known for its distinct customs. Growing up surrounded by an unfamiliar yet vibrant culture, she developed a unique perspective shaped by adventure and resilience. This formative period, including a tumultuous departure and subsequent culture shock upon returning to the United States, imbues her writing with a deep understanding of displacement and adaptation. Myers crafts compelling narratives that explore the nuances of cultural encounters and the strength found in navigating vastly different worlds.
Shockwaves are running through Hernia with the disastrous news that a huge, biblical-themed amusement park is to be built on its doorstep. At a public demonstration to showcase his plans for the new park, Aaron Miller, bites into a homemade tart - with fatal consequences. It's clear the tart was poisoned, but who baked it?
A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery With Recipes
Struggling to cope with the discovery that her husband is a bigamist and the destruction by a tornado of her Amish country inn, Magdalena Yoder must turn sleuth when the reunion of a group of World War II buddies and an old vendetta lead to murder. Original.
A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery With Recipes
Hosting a cooking contest at her PennDutch Inn, Magdalena Yoder fears that a murderer lurks among the competitors when the CEO of a gourmet food company is found dead in the barn, in a mystery featuring Pennsylvania Dutch recipes. Original.
A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery, with Recipes
A well-preserved corpseA twenty-year-old barrel of genuine Pennsylvania Dutch sauerkraut isn’t Magdalena Yoder’s idea of a great wedding present from her future father-in-law. Especially when it has a corpse in it. And it sure puts Mennonite-born Magdalena, owner of the picturesque PennDutch Inn, in a pickle. She has just one week before she ties the knot with the man of her dreams—and this bride of forty-four will allow nothing to delay her nuptials, even murder.Of course, Magdalena recognizes the victim, who is as well preserved as a gherkin. It’s her fiancé’s cousin Sarah, who’s been missing for years. Soon Magdalena’s inn is filled with unwanted guests—eccentric aunts and loopy uncles of the deceased. And Magdalena—shrewd as she is peppery—suspects one of them is the killer. Now she is over a barrel, blowing the lid off a mystery two decades old, and digging up a scandal that may shake her Amish hometown to the bedrock and send her to a funeral—her own—instead of her wedding day!
Hoping to put her culinary skills to work for the celebration of the bicentennial of Hernia, Pennsylvania, innkeeper Magdalena Yoder finds the festivities cut short when one of her guests, Buzzy Porter, is found murdered and she must use her sleuthing talents to find a killer. Reprint.
Magdalena searches in the Amish community for the murderer of an Asian tourist.
PennDutch Inn owner Magdalena Yoder is up to her ears in trouble when her guests include deer hunters and animal-rights activists, the cook quits, and two guest die under mysterious circumstances. Reprint.
When Reverend Schrock ends up dead at the annual church chili supper, thanks to a not-so-accidental allergic reaction to the peanut butter someone added, innkeeper Magdalena Yoder investigates, only to encounter plenty of people who had wanted the reverend dead--including a vengeful serial monogamist and a wrongly accused man against whom the victim had testified. Reprint.
The story follows Abigail Timberlake, an antiques shop owner, who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation after a seller is killed in a hit-and-run outside her shop. With her boyfriend, Homicide Investigator Greg Washburn, frustrated by the case, Abby takes it upon herself to uncover the truth behind the victim and the valuable Ming vase that went missing. As she delves into the victim's prestigious lineage connected to Roselawn Plantation, Abby faces the perilous task of exposing long-hidden family secrets that could threaten her life.
It’s a nightmare in shining armoire…Petite, indomitable North Carolinian Abigail Timberlake rose gloriously up from the ashes of divorce—parlaying her savvy about exquisite old things into a thriving antiques enterprise: the Den of Antiquity. Now she’s a force to be reckoned with in Charlotte’s close-knit world of mavens, eccentrics and cuttthroat dealers. But a superb, gilt-edged 18th-century French armoire she purchased for a song at estate auction has just arrived along with something she didn’t pay for: a dead body.Suddenly her shop is a crime scene—and closed to the public during the busiest shopping season of the year—so Abigail is determined to speed the lumbering police investigation along. But amateur sleuthing is leading the feisty antiques expert into a murderous mess of dysfunctional family secrets. And the next cadaver found stuffed into fine old furniture could wind up being Abigail’s own.
Schmucker Brothers' Sausages are the talk of the town, and potential investors are lining up to go into business with the coveted sausage makers. But when one of the investors is found slaughtered at Magdalena Yoder's Penn-Dutch Inn, she must catch a murderer intent on turning juicy pork dreams to rashers!
When Magdalena Yoder had the brainwave for the annual Billy Goat Gruff Festival four years ago, little did she expect it to become the highlight of Hernia's social calendar. Unfortunately, the festivities are soon derailed by a series of bizarre pranks and a gruesome discovery. But is the festival really the target, or is it Magdalena herself?
A decades-old murder intertwines with a peculiar superstition in the picturesque town of Belle Vue, where an enormous snake and a colossal secret threaten to disrupt the community. As the layers of mystery unfold, the residents must confront their past and the hidden truths that could change their lives forever.
Magdalena Yoder's new Amish-Asian restaurant is not to everyone's taste, but it is unanimously agreed that the desserts are to die for. Not literally however. When a guest at the PennDutch Inn drops dead shortly after consuming a slice of delicious Blitz torte, Magdalena finds herself arrested for murder...
Set in Tidal Shores, a struggling seaside town in South Carolina, the story revolves around the town council's quirky efforts to attract tourists. The standout plan involves Gunner Jones, a charming taxidermist, who creates a fabricated mermaid from an albino ape and a tigerfish. As the town revels in mermaid mania, reporter Zoe Porter suspects the truth behind the spectacle. Her investigation leads her into a deeper, more sinister narrative, challenging her to uncover the reality amidst the town's desperate attempts at revival.
In ihrem dritten Krimi holt Tamar Myers ihre beherzte Heldin Magdalena Yoder aus ihrem ländlichen Gasthaus und führt sie auf den Hof ihres entfernten Cousins, der auf höchst schockierende Weise sein Leben verloren hat: Er wurde nackt in einem Milchtank gefunden - eine ziemlich unappetitliche Todesart.§Ein witziger Krimi um die kulinarisch hochbegabte Magdalena Yoder! Mit zahlreichen Rezepten.
Magdalena braucht gute Nerven, als ein Filmteam in ihren Landgasthof einzieht. Diverse Dorfbewohner möchten Karriere als Schauspieler machen. Der Regie-Assistent wird mit einer Mistgabel erstochen. Magdalena muss den Mörder finden, denn sie steht selbst unter Verdacht.
Amanda přijme nabídku vést penzion v africkém Kongu, kam v době diamantové horečky denně míří stovky Belgičanů za vidinou zbohatnutí. K závisti všech najde největší drahý kámen místní šaman. Prodejem by jednou provždy vyřešil stupňující se existenční problémy, avšak šamanovy ženy pochopily, že diamant nepřinese rodině nic dobrého, a proto musí zmizet...
