Being a bit of a softy gets Eleanor Swift in trouble. When her delivery driver calls in “sick” Eleanor think she can handle A Slice of Delight’s deliveries herself that night. Her one late night delivery is to the home of Richard Olsen, someone whose advances she very publicly rebuffed at her town’s most recent harvest festival. Pizza in hand, Eleanor looks in through Richard’s front door, only to see that someone has stabbed him with a large kitchen knife.
The image of Eleanor juggling her cell phone and the pizza box is a great start to this light-hearted mystery. Because of that incident at the festival, Eleanor is suspected of the murder by the police chief, who happens to be her high school beau. When public opinion, as measured by sales at her pizzeria, seems to turn against her, Eleanor enlists her sister Maddy to help her investigate the crime. Along the way, the reader gets introduced to a town full of characters.
Check this title’s availability in the UNC-Chapel Hill Library catalog.