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

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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.

I'm reading my way through Ms. Myers' Pennsylvania Dutch/Magdelena Yoder series and have liked them.

This one, where Magdelena and her wild sister and crusty cook take off to Ohio, disappointed me. I figured out the ending long before I should have and I missed the Hernia, Pennsylvania, locals. I'll keep reading these books, because I like all the characters, even Schnookums....the rat dog....

This one just didn't seem as good as the rest.

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.

This reads worse than some B movies. The last few chapters were totally ridiculous. The first several books in this series were enjoyable but not so with this disappointing one. Hopefully the rest of the titles featuring the owner of the PennDutch Inn won't be as bad as this one.

Tamar Myers cracks me up. This was the first of her books that I read, and I loved it - no 4-letter words, no pornographic descriptions, but lots of laughs. I was so busy enjoying Tamar's humor that I kept forgetting to try to solve the mystery. My only complaint is that I can't find the Penn Dutch Series on CD. I would like to be able to listen to all of them.

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 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 !

I really enjoyed the first book in this series, and the second one was OK, but not as good as the first, but this one was just terrible! I gave it two stars instead of one because I know that Ms. Myers is capable of much better than this. This book is poorly written and poorly edited. There are glaring mistakes in it, and the plot is so loose that you could drive a truck through it. The last few chapters are truly terrible, and rather than feeling anything for the main characters, I just wanted to finish the book. I will read one more in this series and if it's as bad as this I will not continue. I did enjoy the first in her Den of Antiquity series, and will continue with that one unless the same thing happens with that one that has happened here. It appears that Ms Myers is trying to make a slapstick comedy, and it falls flat.

I read the first book in this series and then this one. I won't be reading any more - some good recipes, but the books are just too silly.

In this one, the crimanal is involved in a sneaky plot, but you wouldn't jump off a silo in the middle of Febuary with your shirt off would you? Or would you? And you probaly wouldn't get cought in the same situation in a milk tank. To find the killer read the book.