Review
The Sixth Rita Calabrese Culinary Mystery
While most people believe "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" takes place in Terrytown, the people of Acorn Hollow know that their bucolic town was the real inspiration. The community theatre is putting on their production of "The Legend of Acorn Hollow", a telling of the original Washington Irving story followed by the stories of two local disappearances that have uncanny resemblances to the original-smashed pumpkin and all. While her son, Vinnie, is working on the production journalist, matriarch, and Italian cook extraordinaire Rita Calabrese has been asked to cater the Widow Schmalzgruben's funeral by the very much alive widow. The widow has close ties to the more recent disappearance told in the play and believes someone got away with murder. When accidents start befalling the current Ichabod Crane and Vinnie looks guilty, Rita will do everything in her power to prove his innocence, and she may just solve those mysteries from the past as well.
I am absolutely thrilled to be back in Acorn Hollow during my favorite season. I love how the classic Legend of Sleepy Hollow is incorporated in so many ways into the mystery. We have the legend, the disappearance in the 1930s, the disappearance of the Widow's nephew in the 1960s, and the actors portraying characters from both of these time frames-all love triangles, all interwoven.
I love so many things about THE LEGEND OF ACORN HOLLOW, indeed this whole series. One of my favorite things is the humor found here. From Rose's amorous aspirations to Rita's machinations, so many scenes had me grinning and laughing, but the one that still has me in stitches is Rita's "vision".
THE LEGEND OF ACORN HOLLOW is a complex multilayered mystery that is as intriguing as it is heartwarming. With decadent food descriptions and a multitude of laughs, the sixth Rita Calabrese Culinary Mystery will have you drooling, smiling, and wanting more.
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