Painting the Town Red

In Easter Egg Murder by Leslie Meier, Lucy Stone and Carole Capobianco are amused by the tale of a neighbor's chickens refusing to lay eggs. The decoy eggs he's set out to encourage the hens are being stolen. That's confusing enough, but what's happened to the cook is deadly serious. In Death by Another Easter Egg by Lee Hollis, when a reporter dies mid-meal at Hayley Powell's restaurant, Hayley scrambles to crack the case, discovering that the victim was about to break a juicy story. In An Eggy Way to Die by Peggy Ehrhart, friends Pamela and Bettina are startled to find the dead body of a local cookbook author.