Secrets and Pies

Once again Callie is up to her neck in work. In Secrets and Pies by Jenny Kales, Callie, thanks to her father George, is baking enormous amounts of Greek food for the Greek church festival. 

Her ex-husband Hugh asks her to meet him at one of the Gilded Age homes he is renovating to pick up their daughter Olivia. While she waits Callie decides to browse around the house and stumbles across the body of Olivia's teacher, Holly Tennyson. Holly was a grad student working on an F.Scott Fitzgerald thesis.

Thrust as usual into the crime, she promises her daughter she will find the murderer, but her boyfriend Detective Ian Sands discourages her involvement. And life at Callie's Kitchen is crazy. Besides the church festival, she is roped into Beats at the Bay, a musical evening, by her grandmother, and baking for the every day tourists who are visiting the area is almost overwhelming.

When her right hand man Max tells her he has to quit to work at his father's farm, Callie panics.

There is still so much prep work for the festival and she wants to continue her investigation. Without Max in the kitchen Callie has to ask her father for help. Two Greeks in a kitchen. What could go wrong!

When another grad student is attacked, Callie is sure the solution has something to do with the graduate work and the Fitzgerald connection. Putting herself in jeopardy, she finds the killer.

The Callie Costas books take me back to my days in the kitchen learning how to cook with my Greek-American mother. We made almost all of the goodies Callie makes and to this day, I still make most of them. Still working on my pie crust, but I'm getting better.

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