2011 Book Review #59: Scoop to Kill

Title: Scoop to Kill
Author: Wendy Lyn Watson
Genre: Cozy mystery
Thingummies: 4

Synopsis: Tally had quite enough of murder last year when she solved the mystery of her ex-husband's girlfriend's death. Now, she just wants to concentrate on her burgeoning ice cream parlor business in her Texas hometown. But when her niece Alice discovers the body of a murdered grad student, Tally has to start meddling again to protect her niece. Tally's already got a wedding and a benefit dinner to cater for--what's one more project to add to the heap?

Thingummies: ( So, what did you think? )

Island of the frozen dolphins

I dreamt last night that I was a dolphin researcher who went to Antarctica and discovered telepathic dolphins while diving. They were very nice dolphins, although I had great difficulty explaining to them that I could not sleep underwater with them because humans sleep with their whole brain at once instead of one half at a time (which they thought was a very stupid way to organize a brain). Unfortunately, while I was underwater, a huge storm came up and I had to get out and try to fasten my tent back down to the iceberg it was pitched on. The head dolphin was trying to convince me to get back in the water, since the turbulence dies down once you get far enough away from the surface and it's much safer. But I knew that if my tent blew away, I'd lose all my scientific recordings. So I was frantically retying one rope after another (they were color-coded, with each spike getting a different color rope, which helped in the high wind) when I woke up.

Victory!

Thank you, Cook's Illustrated, for tips that actually made my ice cream freeze properly. (Corn syrup replacing some of the sugar, half a cup custard frozen solid while the rest chilled and added back to bring the mixture's temperature down before putting it in the machine.)