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Dead Man's Hand

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by Lorraine Bartlett


  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

  * * *

  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.

  * * *

  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

  * * *

  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

  * * *

  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

  Not familiar with all of Lorraine’s work? Check out A Cozy Mystery Sampler, which is FREE. Just click this link.

  If you enjoyed DEAD MAN’S HAND, please consider reviewing it on your favorite online review site. Thank you!

  Find Lorraine on Social Media

  www.LorraineBartlett.com

  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)

  * * *

  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

  * * *

  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)

  * * *

  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)

  * * *

  Tales of Telenia

  (adventure-fantasy)

  STRANDED

  JOURNEY

  TREACHERY (2020)

  * * *

  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)

  * * *

  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

  * * *

  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

  * * *

  Abused: A Daughter’s Story

  Off Script

  * * *

  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

  * * *

  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.

  Visit her website to join her email newsletter list!

  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

  * * *

  Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Series

  Designs on Murder

  Perils and Lace

  Christmas Cloches and Corpses

  * * *

  Kinsey Falls Chick-Lit Series

  Hightail It to Kinsey Falls

  Putting Down Roots in Kinsey Falls

  Sleighing It in Kinsey Fa
lls

  * * *

  The Victoria Square Mysteries (with Lorraine Bartlett)

  Yule Be Dead

  Murder Ink

  A Murderous Misconception

  Dead Man’s Hand

  * * *

  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

  * * *

  Writing as Gayle Trent

  Daphne Martin Cake Decorating Mysteries

  Murder Takes the Cake

  Dead Pan

  Killer Sweet Tooth

  Battered to Death

  Killer Wedding Cake

  * * *

  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)

  * * *

  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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