PEARLS AND POISON by Duffy Brown Guest Post

Some elections are pure murder.

A dead-as-a-doornail opponent is one way to win an election…unless you wind up in jail for the murder.

Gloria Summerside is trailing in the poles but front-runner as a murder suspect when her mud-slinging opponent is poisoned. Is someone out to frame Judge Guillotine Gloria? Will she be the one behind bars this time? Can her daughter find the real killer or will they have adjoining cells?

A dead opponent is one way to win an election…unless you wind up accused of the murder.

Guest Post:

 Southern Food

I love Savannah, I’ve visited there a lot of times and did a ton of research on the place when I wrote my Consignment Shop Mystery Series. Things like what streets are one way, how many squares are there,  is the Pirate House really haunted and God bless the to-go cup.

One of the things I love researching the most is the food! Eating my way across Savannah is a delicious, lip-smacking, calorie-overload adventure.  Is there anything more delicious than Southern cooking?

            You can have your sushi and broiled skinless/boneless chicken breast  but give me a good old pork something-or-other anytime. I read somewhere that there are two religions down South...Baptist and Barbecue.  This is where the pork comes in, a cookout over a hardwood fire. Pulled, shredded, chopped, diced or sliced, it’s all pure heaven.           

            Then there’re the pies. Lord have mercy, pies! My Kentucky mother in-law taught me to make crust that crumbles if you look at it sideways. And the filling… I have a pecan pie recipe that makes grown men cry, a peach cobbler recipe bequeathed to my eldest daughter and a sweet potato pie recipe that our neighbor’s  broken into my house twice now trying to swipe.

            Some of my friends just don’t get it. North food, South food, what’s the difference? Lots! Here’s a list and you tell me if it’s on a Northern grocery list or a Southern one. First off there’s the grocery itself…just try and find a Winn Dixie or Piggly-Wiggly in New Jersey.

            Bagels or hush puppies, granola bars or bread pudding, soft pretzels or jambalaya, baguette or grits, penne or grits, 12-inch Italian sausage or grits.  You get the idea.

            So what about you? What is your favorite Southern dish? Is there one passed down in the family or one you found in an old Southern Living magazine in your doctor’s office? Share the good food! I’ll give away two Pearls and Poison totes  from the answers and here’s my pecan pie recipe to get the ball rolling. Yummmmm!

Pecan Pie

9” unbaked pie crust (if in a hurry Pillsbury in the fridge section will do nicely)

1 cup light corn syrup

1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar

3 eggs slightly beaten

1/3 cut butter melted

½ tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecan halves (or walnuts)

heat over to 350. Combine corn syrup, sugar, eggs, butter, salt, vanilla and mix well. Pour into crust, sprinkle with nuts and bake for 50 min till knife comes out clean. Cool. Add whipped cream, cinnamon or caramel ice cream is great. J

And when you take that first bite think of me.

Happy eating.

Hugs, Duffy Brown

Duffy Brown loves anything with a mystery. While others girls dreamed of dating Brad Pitt, Duffy longed to take Sherlock Holmes to the prom. She has two cats, Spooky and Dr. Watson, her license plate is Sherlock and she conjures up who-done-it stories of her very own for Berkley Prime Crime. Duffy’s national bestselling Consignment Shop Mystery series is set in Savannah and the Cyclepath Mysteries are set on Mackinac Island. Duffy writes romance as Dianne Castell and is a USA Today bestselling author.

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