Teaser Tuesday 138: Eggs in Purgatory

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current book or recent read.
* Share a few "teaser" sentences from somewhere in the book.
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!


As I write this post, I am only about 60 pages (21%) into Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs, the first in her "Cackleberry Club" mystery series. The following teaser is from page 42:

"Hello?" she called out, suddenly unsure. There were no streetlights out here, and the summer darkness seemed thick and oppressive.

There was a dull click and then, like some terrible, mechanized mosquito, a bullet whined past her left ear.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
1. Eggs in Purgatory
2. Eggs Benedict Arnold
3. Bedeviled Eggs
4. Stake and Eggs

Suzanne, Toni and Petra lost their husbands but found independence—and, in each other, a life raft of support, inspiration, fresh baked goods, and their own business. But when the Cackleberry Club café opened its doors in the town of Kindred, who’d have guessed that the cozy oasis would become the scene of a crime?

Suzanne’s lawyer is found in his car behind the Cackleberry with egg on his face and blood on the dash. Suzanne’s taking the crime personally: The murder reveals a scandal in her late husband’s past and brings a stranger fleeing a messianic sect to her for help. Now, discovering the link between a dead man with secrets and a runaway cultist may be putting Suzanne’s own life on the line.