No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk: A Pennsylvania-Dutch Mystery with Recipes

In this Penn-Dutch mystery, Magdalena gets involved in murders revolving around a cheese factory. Once again, Ms. Myers' wonderful sense of humor and colorful characters make for a most cozy read. Though this is the third in the series (it's a good idea to read them in order, as the characters' subplots progress) it's as fresh as the first.

Magdelena Yoder, Mennonite proprietess of the PennDutch Inn and her less-than-reverent sister, Susannah, take to the road as they travel to Farmersburg, Ohio for the funeral of their second cousin twice removed. This unfortunate man was found floating, nude, in a milk tank on his dairy farm. Magdalena knows that any self-respecting Amish man would never be found in this compromising position, and she grows more suspicious when she discovers that one of his partners died under suspicious circumstances during the previous week. A conflict seems to center around competitors who are trying to produce the best Swiss cheese in the area. Susannah has a romance with the head of the competition's business and Magdelena fears that her sister's life is in danger. The web of evidence grows until Magdelena is kidnapped by the murderer who has her pegged as the next victim. Fans of the Pennsylvania Dutch books will enjoy this 3rd. novel of the series.

This series just gets better and better. In this installment, Magdalena Yoder receives a phone call telling her that a distant cousin, Yost Yoder, has drowned in a vat of milk---naked. So it's off to Ohio for Magdalena, her sister Susannah, and cook and close friend Freni Hostetler, for the funeral. But they find out that Yost was not the first to die recently. There was also the mysterious death of Levi Mast, who crowed like a rooster on top of the silo and then fell to his death. And Magdalena discovers that Yost mooed like a cow before drowning in the milk vat. Things just keep getting stranger and stranger, and more and more mysterious, until finally, the killer is revealed. This hilarious book is reccommended for fans of Finnegan Zwake Mysteries, and any other good, funny, fantastic books.

I just got through reading this book and what a hoot it was. This is the first book of Tamar's I've read and can't wait to read the others in this series. Kinda like Fannie Flagg meets Nancy Drew.

This was the first of the Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery series by Tamar Myers and it took me awhile to figure everyone out. Eventually I did and was hooked! The star, Magdalena, has a nutcase sister complete with ratty dog; and a whole gaggle of relatives to contend with while trying to find the killer of her Amish second cousin, twice removed. He was found naked, floating in three feet of milk; this should give you an idea of the unusual fun! An older Mennonite Janet Evanovich ! Should have come with a ...WARNING: Don't read this if you're hungry !