The satanic mechanic

Title:

Author:

Andrew, Sally, author.

Personal Author:

Andrew, Sally, author.

ISBN:

9780062397690

Physical Description:

368 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

A Tannie Maria mystery

Tannie Maria mystery.

General Note:

Includes recipes.

Abstract:

Tannie Maria writes the love advice and recipe column for the Klein Karoo Gazette: words of wisdom for the lovelorn, along with a recipe for something helpful and delicious. Her own relationship with detective Henk Kannemeyer is still haunted by the memory of her abusive late husband, so she decides to check out a counseling group run by a man they call the Satanic Mechanic. When a local land-rights activist is poisoned before her eyes, Tannie Maria's quest for healing takes a more investigative turn.

When Slimkat the Bushman's life is threatened by an unknown adversary, recipe writer-turned-crime fighter Tannie Maria becomes embroiled in a nature-reserve land dispute among Bushmen descendants, diamond miners, and cattle companies.

Personal Subject:

Tannie Maria (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Subject Term:

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Women journalists -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Fiction.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Summary:

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Summary

Now an Acorn Original TV Series Starring Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kylie Fisher, and Tony Kgoroge

Tannie Maria, our crime-fighting, food-loving heroine, returns to solve another delicious caper: the mystery of her own romantic future

Tannie Maria--recipe writer turned crime fighter--barely has time to return to her cooking and advice column for the local Gazette when she finds herself embroiled in another whodunnit--Slimkat the Bushman's life is being threatened, and Tannie Maria is determined to find out who wants to kill him. The nature reserve beside the Kuruman River has been awarded as ancestral land to the Bushmen, also known as the San people, and a host of greedy parties, like diamond miners and cattle companies, are willing to do whatever it takes to keep them from claiming it.

Add to the mix that Tannie Maria is also trying to overcome her own hangups in love with her boyfriend, the rugged detective Lieutenant Henk Kannymeyer, and--for the first time in her life--to go on a diet, there is no shortage of conundrums personal and professional for an amateur sleuth to confront in this delightful, warm-hearted sequel to Sally Andrew's Recipes for Love and Murder, one of O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE's Books To Start 2016 Right."

Blending a madcap mystery with lovable characters, in the beautiful setting of South Africa's rural Klein Karoo, Sally Andrew really does have the perfect recipe for a crime series.