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Pies and Prejudice by Ellery Adams

Mystery Book Club

Pies and Prejudice Discussion Questions

1. What do you think of the 3^rd person narration?
2. Does it feel like the book introduces a bunch of characters at the very beginning?
3. What do you think of Ella Mae?
4. The book begins with Ella Mae sad and telling her family about catching her husband cheating on her with twins, what do you think of this as a beginning?
5. Would you want to have 5 women raising you like Ella Mae?
6. What do you think of Ella Mae mixing her feelings into her pies?
7. Would you want a pie that made you feel things?
8. Does Loralyn seem like an evil stereotype?
9. Do you wish there was a pie shop near here?
10. What do you think of Ella Mae’s husband, Sloan?
11. What do you think of the planning of the shop?
12. Does the murder seem forced?
13. Does showing up at the dead vet’s clinic with pie seem like an odd way to investigate his murder?
14. What do you think about the scene between Loralyn and Ashleigh, her fiancee’s daughter at the funeral?
15. How yucky is someone being murdered with a pie in the pie shop?
16. Did you expect Ashleigh to be the killer?
17. Did it take Ella Mae a long time to figure out that her pies were causing people’s emotions?
18. Does it seem like the book goes on for a while after the killer is discovered?
19. Should Ella Mae have ripped up Sloan’s check?
20. Would you have?
21. Did you like the book?
22. Would you read more in the series?