#COOKING WITH CLORIS--MYSTERY AUTHOR MADDIE DAY SHARES A WINE SPRITZER #RECIPE

Maddie Day pens the Country Store Mysteries and Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. As Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, she writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Foods Mysteries, and short crime fiction. Learn more about Edith and her books at her website, where you can find links to all her social media, and at the Wicked Authors and Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen blogs. Today Maddie/Edith shares with us a refreshing wine spritzer that’s a favorite of one of her sleuths.

In Batter Off Dead, number ten in the Country Store Mysteries, chef and protagonist Robbie Jordan enjoys a blueberry wine spritzer during the July heat. I included the recipe among the others at the back of the book, and I’m delighted to share it with your readers.

 

That said, we are in the depths of a cold New England winter, and I couldn’t find a trace of fresh mint to use, so I stuck a lime on the glass. 

 

Robbie’s Blueberry Wine Spritzer

Ingredients (for one drink): 

Fresh blueberries

3 mint leaves

1 teaspoon sugar

4 ounces chilled Pinot Grigio

Lime seltzer

 

Muddle a dozen blueberries and mint with the sugar at the bottom of a glass. Stir in wine, add ice, and top off with seltzer and a few more blueberries. Enjoy on the deck with a good book!

 

Readers: What’s your favorite refreshing summer drink? I’d love to send one commenter a signed copy of the new book. Please include your email address so I can contact you if you’re the winner.

 

Batter Off Dead

A Country Store Mystery, Book 10

 

In South Lick, Indiana, fine foods and classic cookware can be found at Robbie Jordan’s Pans ’N Pancakes. Unfortunately, her country store also seems to stock up on murder.

 

In Batter Off Dead, Robbie and her new husband Abe O’Neill are enjoying a summer evening in the park with fellow townsfolk excited for some Friday night fireworks. In attendance are senior residents from Jupiter Springs Assisted Living including Roy Bird, father to South Lick’s very own Police Lieutenant Buck Bird. Despite his blindness, Roy is a member of his group home’s knitting circle, spending quality time with some lovely ladies.

 

But when the lightshow ends, one of the knitters who sat with Roy is found dead, a puncture wound in her neck. The poor woman’s death echoes that of Buck’s mother and Roy’s wife—an unsolved homicide. To help find the killer, Robbie’s going to have to untangle the knotty relationships deep in the victim’s past . . .

 

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