Karen’s Killer Fixin’s **AUTHOR SPECIAL** with KIRSTEN WEISS!!
Welcome to my Friday bonus feature called Karen’s Killer Fixin’s **Author Special**!! Today, instead of one of my recipes, I will introduce you to a new author who will share a favorite recipe. Not only will you and I occasionally learn how to make something new and delicious, but we’ll also get a chance to check out some fantastic authors. Introducing author KIRSTEN WEISS and her favorite recipe for Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie, Pennsylvania Dutch Style!
WHISPERS OF THE WITCH
The Mystery School Book 3
BY KIRSTEN WEISS
Blurb
How do we go on when our world has collapsed?
Mitzi’s lost her marriage, her home, and her career. Teaching photography on a Georgia barrier island might be the do-over this midlife influencer needs.
But her fresh start soon takes a dark turn. When she stumbles over the body of a supposed drowning victim, she realizes the idyllic island isn’t everything it seems.
Haunted by the dead woman and mysterious messages from a mystery school, Mitzi must solve the mystery of her own magic. Because a killer is on the island, and his work has just begun.
Whispers of the Witch is an interactive, metaphysical mystery from the Mystery School Series that will leave readers spellbound. If you were inspired by the quest in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, discover a path where women find their magic through connection and love.
WHISPERS OF THE WITCH
The Mystery School Book 3
BY KIRSTEN WEISS
Excerpt
I’d stumbled upon a dreamy fairy lady, a naiad of Greek myth, her long red hair swaying like water grass. Her face beneath the water was peaceful, as if she meant to be there, as if her eyes would blink open, and she’d rise up, laughing at my shock.
For a moment, I hadn’t realized she was dead. And in the next, I had known, the knowledge turning me to ice. The knowing came without words, as they always did. She wasn’t just dead—she’d been murdered.
Now, night had fallen. The police lamps dulled nature’s colors and flattened the definition of the oaks and brush.
Even now, with red and blue lights strobing through the marsh, with boots of uniformed men thunking on the low dock, the dead woman still seemed unreal, a dream.
“When did you arrive on the island?” the detective asked—Sanchez, he’d said his name was. His suit was charcoal colored, the same shade as the dress on the woman in the water.
I swallowed and studied my water shoes. Their black rubber tips aligned neatly with the dock’s edge. “Three hours ago,” I said. “Roughly.”
“Did you see anyone around when you found her?”
“No. I mean, I saw two men on shore about a quarter mile back, I think. They were, ah, talking. But I don’t know who they were.” I tried not to look at the lumpy yellow tarp on the dock.
The night air was still and warm, like the water. Would that warmth confuse the time of death?
And suddenly she was there again, in front of my eyes, her red hair coiling loose like a living thing. Nausea swam in my gut.
“And when you found her,” Detective Sanchez said, “did you try to help her?”
My throat squeezed. Should I have tried? Could there have been a chance…?
No, she’d been dead. It had been obvious. “No,” I said. “I could see she was dead.”
He nodded. “You can go.”
That was it? I rubbed my forehead, my eyebrows drawing together. True, I had nothing real to contribute. I couldn’t tell the police what I knew. They wouldn’t believe me, and rightly so.
About Author Kirsten Weiss…
Kirsten Weiss writes page-turning paranormal and metaphysical mysteries, and now a Tarot guidebook that’s a work of experimental fiction. Her heroes and heroines aren’t perfect, but they’re smart, they struggle, and they succeed. Kirsten writes in a house high on a hill in the Colorado woods and occasionally ventures out for wine and chocolate. Or for a visit to the local pie shop.
Kirsten is best known for her Wits’ End, Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum, and Tea & Tarot cozy mystery books. So if you like thoughtful, action-packed mysteries with complicated heroines, just turn the page…
~~~
Links to Kirsten’s website, blog, books, #ad, etc.:
Amazon: https://bit.ly/4kvFtjT
Apple Books: https://apple.co/3ZIv1xl
Google Play: https://bit.ly/4dRSphF
Kobo: https://bit.ly/4dRvjrn
Bookbub:
https://www.bookbub.com/books/whispers-of-the-witch-by-kirsten-weiss
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235741237-whispers-of-the-witch
Website: https://KirstenWeiss.com
Twitter: twitter.com/SBPM_Museum
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/KirstenWeiss-Writer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kirstenweissauthor/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kirsten.weiss
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@kirstenweissauthor
~~~
Karen
P.S. We’re at 748 recipes and counting with this posting. Hope you find some recipes you like. If this is your first visit, please check out past blogs for more Killer Fixin’s. In the right-hand column menu, you can even look up past recipes by type. i.e. Desserts, Breads, Beef, Chicken, Soups, Author Specials, etc.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE: If an author’s favorite recipe isn’t their own creation and came from an online site, you will now find the entire recipe through the link to that site as a personal recommendation. Thank you.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie, Pennsylvania Dutch Style
Note from Kirsten: This recipe has nothing to do with the book Whispers of the Witch, which is set on an imaginary Georgia barrier island. It’s from Penn Dutch country, and an old family recipe from my grandmother, Alice Weiss. But it’s rhubarb season here in Colorado, and my thoughts have turned to pie…
Crust:
1 ½ C flour
1 T Sugar
¼ tsp salt
1/3 C ice water
1 tsp grated lemon peel
½ C unsalted butter
Filling:
1 ½ pints sliced strawberries
2 C diced rhubarb
1 C sugar
2 T Kirsch
1 T tapioca
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
For pie crust: Mix flour, sugar, salt, ice water and grated lemon. Cut in butter (or use fingers), until dough is mealy. Roll out 2/3 of the dough to line the pie pan. Refrigerate remaining dough, which will be used for lattice.
Mix strawberries, diced rhubarb, sugar, kirsch, and tapioca. Let stand for 15 minutes.
Roll out remaining dough and cut into strips for lattice. Fill pie with strawberry-rhubarb mix and top with lattice.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes until crust is golden.
Happy Reading!
~~~
Special Giveaway: Kirsten will gift a physical copy of her UnTarot deck (the UnTarot app is included in the book to all readers) in a purple velvet pouch (U.S. only) to one lucky reader who comments on her Karen’s Killer Book Bench blog. Good luck!
~~~
Thanks, Kirsten, for sharing your book with us!
Don’t miss the chance to read this book!
Good morning , and Wow!!! This book sounds and looks so Very Intriguing!! Thank you for sharing the excerpt. Thank you also for sharing the Strawberry Rhubarb Pie recipe. Have a great day and a great weekend.
You are very welcome! It’s one of my few family recipes that doesn’t involve copious amounts of alcohol!
The Mystery School Books sound great! Thank you
Welcome to Karen’s Killer Fixin’s, Kirsten. I’m intrigued! Love your premise and excerpt. Can’t wait to read this book. Thanks for sharing it with us today!
Thanks for having me on your blog!
So you leave us hanging, Kirsten! shame on you! 😉
The kirsch is a nice touch to your recipe…had never thought of it…
Thanks, Kirsten and thanks, Karen, for the introduction
My Penn Dutch relatives used alcohol in a lot of their recipes.
A LOT.
tasty recipe
What a fascinating book that sounds like. And, that recipe sounds great, as well. Thank you so much for sharing both of them with us.
Very intriguing, I want to read more.