Zachary “Buck” Williams asks Phyllis
to help him throw a big Easter shindig with games and food and an egg hunt, inviting
everybody from the whole county to join in the fun.
It’s a beautiful spring day in Weatherford,
Texas, as kids are running and playing and parents are chatting and sampling
wonderful home cooked foods. It was all fun and games until someone played hide
and seek with the prize egg leaving Phyllis having to find the culprit.
The Coconut Bunny Butt Caper is a short
story that follows DEATH BAKES A PECAN PIE the fourteenth novel in the
critically acclaimed and best-selling Fresh Baked Mystery series. Phyllis and
her friends tackle another complex case with all the humor, camaraderie,
good-hearted warmth, and delicious recipes that have made readers around the
world fall in love with this series.
Recipes included!
EXCERPT
On a beautiful spring day under an almost cloudless blue
sky, Phyllis Newsom smiled as she watched the crowd of children running and
screaming across the vast green lawn. They descended on the shrubbery and
flowerbeds like a swarm of locusts.
“Dang,” Sam Fletcher said as he stood beside Phyllis. “Don’t
get between a kid and an Easter egg, that’s all I’ve got to say.”
“They’re certainly enthusiastic,” Phyllis agreed. “This
reminds me of the big Easter egg hunts that went on when we were young, and
even when Mike was a child. I remember taking him to several of them, sometimes
put on by family, sometimes by the community or one of the local service clubs.
People don’t do things like that anymore. Not much, anyway.” She shook her
head. “Just another way that things have changed, I suppose.”
“They’ve
got a way of doin’ that,” Sam said. “But bringin’ back the old days was sort of
the whole idea of this fandango, wasn’t it?
