Just Plain Pickled to Death

A WELL-PRESERVED CORPSE

A Twenty-year-old barrel of genuine Pennsylvania Dutch sauerkraut isn't Magdalena Yoder's idea of a great wedding present from her future father-in-law. Especially when it has a corpse in it. And it sure puts Mennonite-born Magdalena, owner of the picturesque PennDutch Inn, in a pickle. She has just one week before she ties the knot with the man of her dreams--and this bride of forty-four will allow nothing to delay her nuptials, even murder.

Of course, Magdalena recognizes the victim, who is as well preserved as a gherkin. It's her fiance's cousin Sarah, who's been missing for years. Soon Magdalena's inn is filled with unwanted guests--eccentric aunts and loopy uncles of the deceased. And Magdalena--shrewd as she is peppery--suspects one of them to be the killer. Now she is over a barrel, blowing the lid off a mystery two decades old, and digging up a scandal that may shake her Amish hometown to the bedrock and send her to a funeral--her own-- instead of her wedding day!