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Mood: Cool ]
Magdalena Yoder runs a B&B in Pennsylvania. Being of Mennonite descent, she has decided to name her B&B PennDutch Inn. She offers an "Amish Lifestyle Package" for her guests where they can clean their own rooms.
Into this world comes a weekend full of guests for hunting season. A senator, his wife and staff, a group of anti-hunting activists and a journalist. Add to that Magdalena’s divorced and vain sister, and the elderly Amish cousins who help run the Inn and you have a rich cast of characters.
It is really too bad that author Tamar Myers doesn’t use them better. Magdalena is bitter, jealous and judgemental of all around her. This makes her a completely unsympathetic main character, which in turn makes it difficult for the reader to get invested in the book. So I found this book to be a little on the meh side. I will give the next one a chance, but if it falls flat, to the curb this series goes.
Like many of the culinary mysteries out there are recipes in the book so you can cook what the characters eat. Your choice to include the arsenic or not.