The Good Old Babes — Susan Spencer-Smith

Dragon lady Gudrun Wince lies dead at Glory Hallelujah Church in Biddlebourne, West Virginia, stabbed while concocting Mammy's Marvelous Biscuit Casserole. Sheriff Dooley Skiles gears up his official deputies and his unofficial backroom boys. But the culprit eludes him until Edith Fay Smith and the Good Old Babes step in with their own brand of case cracking. Is the killer an anguished lover, a jealous cook, an unhandy helper or someone Edith Fay and Dooley never suspected? The inspirational cozy mysteries of Susan Spencer-Smith come to life in Biddlebourne, the literary double of Middlebourne, West Virginia, a place that is pure Hoopie. What's Hoopie? Hoopie is a special place along the Upper Ohio River Valley claimed by feisty Scots-Irish settlers. And it's a special people marked by hard work, firm opinions and staunch loyalties. Susan Spencer-Smith, whose forebears lived and worked in Middlebourne, invites readers to pull up a chair to a corner of Appalachia where corn grows tall in the bottoms, muskies run thick in Middle Island Creek, and locals do things their own way.