She opens the door to discover her husband, Mac playing hide the sausage with Hayley, the new barmaid. Sloan Krause is working on a new brew and quickly runs to her office at Das Keller to get her notes. Readers will enjoy descriptions of Sloan's IPA cupcakes and chocolate stout brownies many will wish the recipes weren't a mystery.įirst book in A Sloan Krause Mystery series!ĭeath on Tap by Ellie Alexander is the first book in A Sloan Krause Mystery series. Alexander provides everything you want to know about brewing, maybe more, including the temperature for storing hops and reasons to filter. Meanwhile, the chemistry cooks between Sloan and handsome Garrett Strong, Nitro's owner. For the sake of their teenage son and Mac's terrific parents and brother, Sloan must save her low-life cheating husband by sussing out the real killer. The local police chief arrests Mac for Eddie's murder. There she discovers brewmaster Eddie Deluga, "bloated with beer and death" in a brewing tank. When Sloan catches her husband, Mac, in flagrante with the barmaid at the Krause family's venerable microbrewery, Das Keller, Sloan leaves Mac and takes a job at Nitro, a competing brewery.
Set in Leavenworth, Wash., a neo-Bavarian craft beer paradise, this hopped-up series launch from Alexander (A Crime of Passion Fruit and five other Bakeshop mysteries) introduces gifted beer brewer Sloan Krause. Danger is brewing in Beervaria and suddenly Sloan is on the case. When Mac, is arrested, Sloan knows that her ex might be a cheater, but a murderer? No way. Nitro’s owner, brewmaster Garrett Strong, has the brew-world abuzz with his newest recipe, “Pucker-Up IPA.” This place is the new cool place in town, and Mac can’t help but be green with envy at their success.īut just as Sloan is settling in to her new gig, she finds one of Nitro’s competitors dead in the fermenting tub, clutching the secret recipe for the IPA. She decides to strike out on her own, breaking away from the Krause family brewery, and goes to work for Nitro, the hip new nano-brewery in the Bavarian-themed town. Sloan has spent her life in Leavenworth, Washington becoming an expert in brewing craft beer, and she doesn’t have time to be held back by her soon-to-be ex-husband. When Sloan Krause walks in on her husband, Mac, screwing the barmaid, she gives him the boot. From Ellie Alexander, beloved author of the Bakeshop Mysteries, comes the first in an intoxicating new series: Death on Tap.
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