title: Mother's Day, Muffins, and Murder (An Ellie Avery Mystery)
author:  Sara Rosett 
description: <b>Sara Rosett</b>, born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, is the wife of an Air Force pilot. She and her husband live in Houston, Texas, with their two children and dog. Sara is the author of nine previous Ellie Avery mysteries<i>.</i> Her writing has also appeared in <i>Chicken Soup for the Military Wife's Soul. </i>Sara is a member of Sisters in Crime, Girlfriends Book Club blog, and the Deadly Divas, who are four nice women who happen to write about murder. Please visit her website, www.sararosett.com, or connect with Sara on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Goodreads.
zlib_text: Killjoy
  Julie Garwood
  
   
  For Mary K. Wahlstedt Murphy, my sister and my friend.
  With your steady strength, your quiet grace, and your wonderful sense of humor, you make the
  world a better place.
  
  Prologue
  AVERY ELIZABETH DELANEY'S mother was a frickin' maniac.
  Fortunately her mother, Jilly, left for parts unknown just three days after Avery was born.
  Avery was raised by her grandmother Lola and her aunt Carrie. The three generations of females
  lived quietly and modestly in a two-story frame house on Barnett Street just two blocks from the city
  square in Sheldon Beach, Florida. The atmosphere on Barnett Street was vastly different after Jilly
  left home. The household, which had once been in a constant uproar, was now peaceful. Carrie even
  learned to laugh again, and for five wonderful years, life was very nearly idyllic.
  The previous years with Jilly had taken their toll on Grandma Lola, however. She hadn't become a
  mother until she was almost old enough to begin the change of life, and