2 Yule Be the Death of Me
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½ cup vegetable oil
½ teaspoon almond extract
4 drops of green food coloring
½ cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
½ cup chopped nuts
Confectioner’s sugar (for garnish)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine yellow cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, sour cream, oil, extract, and food coloring in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for two minutes. Grease and flour a Bundt cake pan.
In a small bowl, combine the granulated sugar, cinnamon, and chopped nuts. Stir together until well mixed and set aside.
Pour half the batter into the prepared cake pan. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar nut mixture on top. Pour the remaining cake batter over the nut mixture and bake for 50-55 minutes.
Allow to cool for 15 minutes, then remove from pan onto a cake plate. Dust with the confectioner’s sugar.
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Body Bags & Blarney:
Book 3 of the Vivienne Finch Magical Mysteries
After a long winter season, Vivienne Finch and the residents of Cayuga Cove are just itching to put away the snow blowers and shovels for good and welcome the return of spring. With preparations underway for the annual Saint Patrick’s Day Parade and Luck of the Irish Carnival, members of the Shoreline Baptist Church prepare their own counter celebration with a weekend of faith-based activities they hope will turn hearts and minds away from the green beer and bar hopping. The charismatic new preacher, Seamus Kilpatrick, warns the town that such alcohol-fueled debauchery will only lead to retribution for their wicked acts.
As the first crocus buds push up from the frigid ground, the weather service issues a warning for a historic Nor’easter to strike the East Coast with Cayuga Cove in its crosshairs. Preparations are made to deal with the coming onslaught of snow, but no one is prepared when Father William is found drowned in the baptismal pool at Our Lady of the Lake Church. Sheriff Rigsbee investigates what he believes to be a case of unfortunate bad luck, while Pastor Kilpatrick believes it is a call to arms to wage spiritual warfare against those who revel in sin, leaving Vivienne Finch to see only cold-blooded murder. With the storm brewing and tempers rising, Vivienne must search for the killer before the only thing found at the end of the rainbow is her own grave!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
J.D. Shaw is a 2008 graduate of the prestigious Odyssey Writing Workshop run by Jeanne Cavelos, former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell. During his six weeks in the program, he worked alongside such award winning authors as Barry B. Longyear and Nancy Kress.
He resides in Elmira, NY with Sam, an indoor orange tiger cat who seems to think that sleep is just wasted time between feedings and spending quality outdoor time with his pal, the neighborhood stray, Mister Tommy Cat.
This is the second novel in his ongoing supernatural cozy series The Vivienne Finch Magical Mysteries. He is hard at work on the next book in the series.
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