A Murder for Miss Hortense: A Mystery Binding:Hardcover It's time to dive back

It's time to dive back into a job that could springboard her career--and maybe offer much-needed closure

Mystal brings his trademark humor

no matter the consequences

until the baking opportunity of a lifetime presents itself: a couples' cooking competition with the prize of her dreams

A Murder for Miss Hortense: A Mystery Binding:Hardcover It's time to dive backA beautiful novel, suffused with fondness and wit. . . . A real triumph! Alexander McCall Smith Retired nurse, avid gardener, and renowned cake maker Miss Hortense has lived in Bigglesweigh, a quiet suburb of Birmingham, England, since she emigrated from Jamaica in 1960. She takes great pride in her home, starching her lace curtains bright white, and she can tell if shes being shortchanged on turmeric before shes taken her first bite of a beef patty.