Halloween Hijinks (A Zoe Donovan Mystery Book 1) (17 page)

Rosie’s Apple Crisp

4 cups of apples peeled, cored, and sliced thin

1
cup cranberries

½ cup sugar

2 Tbs cinnamon

2
tsp ground nutmeg

½ cup quick cooking oats

½ cup flour

½ cup brown sugar

½ cup butter cut into pieces

1 cup chopped pecan

1 jar caramel sauce (the kind used for ice cream is fine)

In a large bowl mix apples, cranberries, white sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg.  Place in buttered 9x13 baking dish.

Combine oats, flour, and brown sugar.  With a fork mix butter in until crumbly. 

Stir in pecans.  Spread over apples.
  Drizzle with caramel sauce. 

Bake in preheated oven at 375 degrees for 40 to 50 minutes or until apples are tender.

Serve with vanilla ice cream

Look for
The Trouble with Turkeys
in mid-October and
Christmas Crazy
in mid-November.

The Trouble with Turkeys

Zoe becomes entangled in a complex murder case involving a dead miser, tipsy turkeys, and an eclectic cast of edacious heirs, when she agrees to help Jeremy in his temporary job at a nearby turkey farm ten days before Thanksgiving.

Christmas Crazy

Every year between the dates of December 1 and December 24, a strange and wonderful insanity hits Ashton Falls. Most refer to this phenomenon as Christmas Spirit, but Zoe has been around long enough to know that
spirit
usually translates to
insanity
, which brings on a phenomenon she likes to refer to as Christmas Crazy. After the annual Hometown Christmas is threatened when Santa is killed four days prior to the annual event, Zoe is pulled into a murder investigation with more twists and turns then the narrow road leading to the valley below.

Kathi Daley
lives with her husband and dogs in the small and beautiful alpine community of Lake Tahoe. According to her Facebook homepage, which she shares with her dog Echo, she is a story weaving, dog loving, beach walking, snowshoeing, kayaking, bike riding, day dreaming, sunset seeking, mystery reading, wine drinking, mountain girl.

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