Dead Weight: A June Larsen Mystery

Some routes you drive for the scenery. June Larsen drives hers for the pie.Six years hauling freight through the Cascade mountains has taught June every diner, every regular, and every back road worth knowing - which is exactly why she doesn't buy it when the sheriff calls Denny Voss's death an accident. She's watched the man work that kitchen a hundred times. He never once reached for the top shelf without his step stool. Not once in nineteen years. Not the night he supposedly fell.With her dog Diesel riding shotgun and a growing list of people who'd rather she minded her own business, June starts pulling on a thread that runs from a small mountain diner all the way up to a debt somebody's been quietly bleeding out of a grieving widower for a decade - and the person covering it up isn't who anyone expected.Warm, funny, and stubborn as its heroine, Dead Weight is a cozy mystery for anyone who takes their murder with a side of pie - and doesn't mind a little coffee-stained detective work along the way.Dead Weight is Book One in the June Larsen Mystery series.