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Authors: Ellie Grant

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Designed by Leydiana Rodríguez-Ovalles

Cover illustration by Jesse Reisch

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Grant, Ellie.

Plum deadly / Ellie Grant. — First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.

pages cm

1. Bakeries—Fiction. 2. Pies—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Durham (N.C.)—Fiction. 5. Mystery fiction. I. Title.

PS3607.R3638P58 2013

813’.6—dc23

2013011692

ISBN 978-1-4516-8955-6

ISBN 978-1-45168957-0 (ebook)

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Epilogue

New Pie Recipes from
Pie in the Sky

Flaky Piecrust

Lotsa Lemon Meringue Pie

Delia’s Deep-Dish Cherry Pie

Clara’s Coconut Custard Pie

About Ellie Grant

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