RELEASE DAY NEWS: Taken Too Soon by Edith Maxwell

Congratulations to our own... 

MADDIE DAY, aka Edith Maxwell

On the release of her new
Quaker Midwife Mystery

TAKEN TOO SOON

A new book in the Agatha Award-winning series by Edith Maxwell!

Quaker midwife Rose Carroll must turn her investigative skills on her own family when a young woman’s murder stuns a New England community . . .

Following a long betrothal, midwife Rose Carroll and her beloved David are finally celebrating their marriage with friends and relatives, when a most disturbing telegram interrupts the festivities: the young ward of Rose’s aunt has suffered a mysterious death, and Rose’s help is needed urgently on Cape Cod. Reluctantly agreeing to mix her honeymoon plans with murder, Rose embarks on an investigation that will expose family secrets and a community’s bigotry.

As Rose does her best to comfort her aunt in her loss and also learn as much as possible about the poor young victim’s death, she discovers that each new clue points to a confounding list of suspects: a close friend of the victim who may have harbored secret resentments, an estranged brother of David’s with an unsavory reputation, and the son of a Native American midwife who supposedly led the young woman astray. And as Rose grows closer to identifying the perpetrator, the solution will rattle her assumptions about her own family and faith . . .

TAKEN TOO SOON

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Sauteed Hailstones from @MaddieDayAuthor plus #GIVEAWAY

MADDIE here. Hailstones, you might ask? Wouldn't they just...melt? Grab a cup of tea or a glass of wine, kids, and I'll tell you a story.

My sister used to live and tend bees (lots of them) in Quebec with a Quebecois man. He grew up in a farmhouse in the countryside, and while he was (still is) a college-educated biologist, Pierrot spoke both French and English with a heavy Quebec accent (still does). They had a big garden and grew lots of their own food.

When I visited them in July one year, Pierrot was rolling the tiniest potatoes I'd ever seen in butter in a pan on their beautiful old wood cookstove. He said they were les petits grêlons. My sister said the word meant hailstones. The little hailstones. 

Freshly dug potatoes are swoon-worthy enough. But little hailstones smaller than a ping-pong ball? Truly heavenly. So when I saw a box of new potatoes (really new) of various sizes at my local farm stand this week, I had to root around and pick out a bagful of grêlons.

Because they are tiny, they are a little more work to scrub (no need in the world to peel), but it's worth it and they barely need cooking. We had some leftover salmon, and mushrooms and a pepper that needed using up, plus fresh herbs in the garden, so I made a great side dish. But seriously? I could have eaten just the potatoes for dinner!

Sauteed Hailstones

Ingredients
Olive oil
4 cups tiny potatoes, scrubbed
1 onion, diced
1 green pepper, diced,
12 ounces mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
Butter
2 cloves garlic, pressed
Fresh basil, parsley, and rosemary, minced

Directions
Cut larger potatoes in half. Steam all in microwave until tender, for about eight minutes.

Heat olive oil in cast iron skillet.
Sautee onion and green pepper until mostly tender. 

Add mushrooms until wilted and remove to a bowl. 

Add a chunk of butter, potatoes, and garlic and and heat until warm. Add herbs and season with salt and pepper.

Combine with other veggies and serve hot.

We enjoyed it with a piece of salmon, a green salad, and a glass of white wine!

Readers: What's your favorite way to enjoy new potatoes? I'd love to send one of you an audiobook code for Nacho Average Murder!

My next book is my alter-ego's Taken Too Soon, the sixth Quaker Midwife (written by Edith Maxwell), up for preorder now!

In this book, releasing September 8, midwife Rose Carroll travels to Cape Cod with her freshly minted husband on a modest honeymoon - which turns into an investigation into the murder of her aunt's ward.


Following on its coattails is Candy Slain Murder, the eighth Country Store mystery - also up for preorder and releasing September 29. You guessed it, the story takes place at Christmas, with Robbie Jordan back in South Lick, Indiana. She digs into the mysterious skeleton of a woman who went missing a decade earlier, and then the woman's twin's murder nearly right in front of Robbie's eyes.

Isn't that a fun cover! You'll be hearing more here about the recipes in the back.

I hope you'll visit Edith Maxwell and me on our web site, sign up for our monthly newsletter, visit us on social media, and check our all our books and short stories.

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.

Chicken Quesadilla from @MaddieDayAuthor, plus #giveaway

Maddie Day here, with another easy and delicious Cali-Mex recipe to celebrate the coming release of my seventh Country Store Mystery, Nacho Average Murder!

In chef Robbie Jordan's next adventure, she's hanging out in her home town of Santa Barbara. She loves the chicken quesadilla she eats so much, she puts it on the Specials menu after she gets back to her country store restaurant in southern Indiana. It's a super easy dish to fix for lunch or dinner, and you can add or subtract spiciness per your taste.

After June 30, I'll send one commenter a signed copy of the book (paper if US, ebook if elsewhere)!

Chicken Quesadilla

Ingredients

3 tablespoons olive oil

1 onion, minced

1 green pepper, diced

Two boneless chicken thighs, trimmed of fat

Cumin

Chili pepper

Salt

4 flour tortillas

(Option) Chopped fresh or pickled Jalapeños

8 ounces pepper Jack cheese, grated (Option: use regular Monterey Jack if you don't like the peppers)

1 avocado mashed into your favorite guacamole recipe, or commercial guacamole

Salsa

  

Directions

Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a cast iron skillet. Sauté onions and green peppers until tender. Remove to a plate.

Sprinkle cumin, chili pepper, and salt on chicken and rub in. Turn and repeat.

Heat second tablespoon of olive oil in the same pan. Sauté chicken on both sides until cooked. Remove, cool slightly, and shred.

Spread chicken, vegetables, and cheese in equal portions on one half of each tortilla. Fold over and press down.

Heat last tablespoon of olive oil in same pan. Saute one or two quesadillas at a time on both sides, just to warm.

Serve hot with salsa and guacamole.

 I'll send one commenter a sign copy of the book (paper if US, ebook if elsewhere)!

Readers: This is basically a grilled sandwich. What's your favorite grilled sandwich?

My next book is Nacho Average Murder, which comes out June 30 and is the seventh Country Store Mystery.

Robbie Jordan is temporarily leaving Pans ’N Pancakes, her country store in South Lick, Indiana, to visit Santa Barbara, California—where wildfire smoke tinges the air, but a more immediate danger may lie in wait . . .

The next book after that is Taken Too Soon, the sixth Quaker Midwife (written by Edith Maxwell), up for preorder now!

I hope you'll visit my alter-ego Edith Maxwell and me on our web site, sign up for our monthly newsletter, visit us on social media, and check our all our books and short stories.

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.