1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 bottle (64 ounces) apple cider or juice, divided
1 can (12 ounces) frozen orange juice concentrate
1 liter ginger ale, chilled
Orange slices, optional
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Place the sugar, spices and 1 cup cider in a saucepan; cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat; stir in juice concentrate until melted. Transfer to a large pitcher. Stir in remaining cider. Refrigerate, covered, until cold. To serve, pour the cider mixture into a punch bowl. Stir in the ginger ale. If desired, garnish with orange slices.
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Pumpkin Cupcakes
Ingredients
2 cups granulated sugar
1 can (15 ounces) pumpkin
4 large eggs, room temperature
1 cup canola oil
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup raisins
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Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
⅓ cup butter, softened
3 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups confectioners' sugar
½ cup chopped walnuts, toasted if desired
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Preheat the oven to 350ºF (180ºC, Gas Mark 4). Beat the sugar, pumpkin, eggs, and oil until well blended. In another bowl, whisk in the next seven ingredients; gradually beat into pumpkin mixture. Stir in the raisins.
Fill each of 24 paper-lined muffin cups with 1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon of the batter. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 28-32 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
For the frosting, beat the butter and cream cheese until smooth. Beat in the vanilla. Gradually add the confectioners' sugar. Frost the cupcakes and sprinkle with walnuts. Refrigerate.
Yield: 24 cupcakes
About Lorraine Bartlett
The immensely popular Booktown Mystery series is what put Lorraine Bartlett’s pen name Lorna Barrett on the New York Times Bestseller list, but it’s her talent—whether writing as Lorna, or L.L. Bartlett, or Lorraine Bartlett—that keeps her in the hearts of her readers. This multi-published, Agatha-nominated author pens the exciting Jeff Resnick Mysteries as well as the acclaimed Victoria Square Mystery series, the Tales of Telenia adventure-fantasy saga, and now the Lotus Bay Mysteries, and has many short stories and novellas to her name(s). Check out the descriptions and links to all her works, and sign up for her emailed newsletter here: http://oi.vresp.com/?fid=aee11a8d64
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Also by Lorraine Bartlett
The Lotus Bay Mysteries
Panty Raid (A Tori Cannon-Kathy Grant mini mystery)
With Baited Breath
Christmas At Swans Nest
A Reel Catch
The Best From Swans Nest (A Lotus Bay Cookbook)
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The Victoria Square Mysteries
A Crafty Killing
The Walled Flower
One Hot Murder
Dead, Bath and Beyond (with Laurie Cass)
Yule Be Dead (with Gayle Leeson)
Murder Ink (with Gayle Leeson)
A Murderous Misconception (with Gayle Lesson)
Dead Man’s Hand with (Gayle Leeson)
Recipes To Die For: A Victoria Square Cookbooks
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Life On Victoria Square
Carving Out A Path
A Basket Full of Bargains
The Broken Teacup
It’s Tutu Much
The Reluctant Bride
Tea’d Off
Life On Victoria Square Vol. 1
A Look Back
Tea For You (free for download)
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Tales From Blythe Cove Manor
A Dream Weekend
A Final Gift
An Unexpected Visitor
Grape Expectations
Foul Weather Friends
Mystical Blythe Cove Manor
Blythe Cove Seasons (Free for all ebook formats)
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Tales of Telenia
(adventure-fantasy)
STRANDED
JOURNEY
TREACHERY (2020)
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Short Women’s Fiction
Love & Murder: A Bargain-Priced Collection of Short Stories
Happy Holidays? (A Collection of Christmas Stories)
An Unconditional Love
Love Heals
Blue Christmas
Prisoner of Love
We’re So Sorry, Uncle Albert
Sabina Reigns (a novel)
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Writing as L.L. Bartlett
The Jeff Resnick Mysteries
Murder On The Mind (Free for all ebook formats)
Dead In Red
Room At The Inn
Cheated By Death
Bound By Suggestion
Dark Waters
Shattered Spirits
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Jeff Resnick’s Personal Files
Evolution: Jeff Resnick’s Backstory
A Jeff Resnick Six Pack
When The Spirit Moves You
Bah! Humbug
Cold Case
Spooked!
Crybaby
Eyewitness
A Part of The Pattern
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Abused: A Daughter’s Story
Off Script
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Writing as Lorna Barrett
The Booktown Mysteries
Murder Is Binding
Bookmarked For Death
Bookplate Special
Chapter & Hearse
Sentenced To Death
Murder On The Half Shelf
Not The Killing Type
Book Clubbed
A Fatal Chapter
Title Wave
A Just Clause
Poisoned Pages
A Killer Edition
Handbook For Homicide
A Deadly Deletion
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With The Cozy Chicks
The Cozy Chicks Kitchen
Tea Time With The Cozy Chicks
About Gayle Lesson
Gayle Leeson is a pseudonym for Gayle Trent. Gayle has also written as Amanda Lee. She is currently writing the Kinsey Falls chick-lit/women's fiction series, the Down South Cafe cozy mystery series, and the Ghostly Fashionista cozy mystery series, and co-author of several Victoria Square Mysteries (with Lorraine Bartlett). Her book KILLER WEDDING CAKE won the Bronze Medal in the 20th Anniversary IPPY Awards.
Gayle lives in Southwest Virginia with her family and enjoys hearing from readers.
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Also by Gayle Leeson
Writing as Gayle Leeson
Down South Café Mystery Series
The Calamity Café
Silence of the Jams
Honey-Baked Homicide
Apples and Alibis
Fruit Baskets and Holiday Caskets
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Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Series
Designs on Murder
Perils and Lace
Christmas Cloches and Corpses
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Kinsey Falls Chick-Lit Series
Hightail It to Kinsey Falls
Putting Down Roots in Kinsey Falls
Sleighing It in Kinsey Fa
lls
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The Victoria Square Mysteries (with Lorraine Bartlett)
Yule Be Dead
Murder Ink
A Murderous Misconception
Dead Man’s Hand
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Writing as Amanda Lee
Embroidery Mystery Series
The Quick and The Thread
Stitch Me Deadly
Thread Reckoning
The Long Stitch Goodnight
Thread On Arrival
Cross-Stitch Before Dying
Thread End
Wicked Stitch
The Stitching Hour
Better Off Thread
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Writing as Gayle Trent
Daphne Martin Cake Decorating Mysteries
Murder Takes the Cake
Dead Pan
Killer Sweet Tooth
Battered to Death
Killer Wedding Cake
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Myrtle Crumb Mysteries
Between A Clutch and A Hard Place
When Good Bras Go Bad
Claus Of Death
Soup...Er...Myrtle!
Perp and Circumstance
The Party Line (A Myrtle Crumb Prequel)
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Stand-Alone Books
The Perfect Woman
The Flame
In Her Blood (as G. V. Trent)
Contents
Acknowledgments
Cast Of Characters
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Brad’s Tealicious Open House Recipes
About Lorraine Bartlett
Also by Lorraine Bartlett
About Gayle Lesson
Also by Gayle Leeson
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