Tea with Jam and Dread

Tamar Myers is of my favorite cozy authors. Lots of fun, a great read with bonus recipes.

This is the first book my this author I have read and I find it to be quite delightful. It's a fun cozy mystery with so much going on that I found myself completely engaged to the very end. I now will need to go back and read the rest of the series from the beginning.

This book was provided by Netgalley for my honest review.

This was a very funny and oddly exciting mystery. The main character is not the most believable of characters but by God she is the funniest and most witty woman of immeasurable faith. It is at times hysterically funny, it is endearing and I picture main character Magdalena as a Mennonite Super Hero, who hides her cape in her sturdy Christian Under Clothes. This story feels very relevant with the times and even the political climate of the USA right now. This story is a wonderful blend of religion, politics, long standing feuds, ghosts, murders, friendship, deception and more...Tea with Jam and Dread was such a hoot! Very entertaining and just and all over enjoyably fun read. I would in a heart beat read anything by Tamar Myers in the future and look forward to looking at some past works as well.

Another great volume in the Magdalena Yoder Pennsylvania Dutch Series. I have read every book in the series and they are always a hoot!

Magdalena Yoder has decided she needs to make her Inn a little more upscale. Then she could charge more and offer more things. So she's excited to book the Earl and Countess Grimsley-Snodgrass and their family as honoured guests, Maybe she can start to pick up some international customers!

Severn House and Net Galley allowed to read this book for review (thank you). It will be published June 1st.

Magdalena isn't the most confident person and she wants to put her best face forward. She goes all out for them and they arrive as snobs who mistreat all the help, eat her out of house and home, and demand activities she hasn't done before. She accommodates them the best she can, but they still complain. When they take a trip to a local mountain and one of the sons falls off the cliff and dies, she's devastated! How could this happen?

When she starts trying to work out how he died and who was involved, it gets even more complicated. She has a real surprise coming before the end of the story. Nothing this couple has been telling her is true.

I enjoy Magdalena as a character. She's trying hard to keep her business going and be a successful entrepreneur. Now if everybody else would just stop trying to mess with her...

Tea With Jam And Dread is the twentieth book in the Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery series.

If you are looking for a book with a lot of humor and puns, give Tea With Jam And Dread a read.

Magdalena Yoder is back once with a hilarious tale from the PennDutch Inn in Hernia, PA. At the PennDutch you pay more, but get more too. You clean your own room and help out with chores around the farm.

Magdalena's Aunt Agnes has finally convinced her to expand the breadth of her advertising to include Europe. Magdalena soon gets a reservation from the Earl of Grimsley and his family. Even though everyone speaks English, there seems to be some kind of language barrier that only adds to the humor.

Soon the body of a prior guest, who was thought to have returned home, is found on top of the Inns elevator. So not only does Magdalena have snooty aristocrats to deal with, but also she has to find out who might have put the dead woman on the top of the elevator.

It was another fun and funny visit to The PennDutch Inn.

Great Book!
This is a great book; this is the twentieth book in the Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery series by Tamar Myers. This book can be read as a standalone, but once you read this one you will want to go back and read the others. Magdalena Yoder decided that the PennDutch Inn needs to go more upmarket, so she is delighted to welcome the Earl and Countess Grimsley-Snodgrass and their family as honored guests. She soon learns that the Grimsley-Snodgrasses are by no means the easiest guests. When a mummified corpse is found in the elevator shaft, she puts her sleuthing skills to the test to find out what really happened. This book has a wonderful story and well developed characters. This book will keep you reading long into the night. This was such a great read and full of surprises. I am looking forward to reading the next book by this great author. A Review copy was provided to me in exchange for a fair and honest review. The free book held no determination on my personal review.