It’s the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a war that will never end. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help. An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing—and is later found murdered.
Miss Dimple and her fellow teachers-turned-sleuths are determined to find the killer. Although Prentice had recently broken up with her boyfriend, the most obvious suspect isn’t always the right one: Prentice may have been keeping some secrets; and a local woman claims to have witnessed the whole abduction. Figuring out what really happened to Prentice is sure to be a challenge. But Miss Dimple has never been daunted by a challenge.
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“A repeating cozy series runs the risk of the fine line between familiarity and boredom, but Mignon Ballard straddles it well. The depiction of folks canning their green beans while sharing the dread of having the man on the bicycle stop at your house with a telegram, flat out shine…A picture of ordinary lives living in extraordinary times.”
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New York Journal of Books