Murder at the Maple Market: A Cozy Culinary Mystery

Every recipe has a secret. Every secret has a price. Autumn has come to Maple Hollow, and Penny Vale is finally ready for a quiet season. Her new fall spice cupcake line is selling out at the farmers' market, the maples are blazing red across the town square, and the biggest decision she has to make is whether to add chai or cardamom to the weekend batch. Then the market's beloved honey vendor is found dead in his stall, a jar of his prize wildflower honey spilled beside him-and Penny notices something the police missed. A label that doesn't belong there. In a dead man's receipt book. Planted by someone who knew exactly where to look. As Penny digs into a decades-old property fraud and a network of corruption that reaches from Maple Hollow to the county courthouse, she gets closer than ever to the conspiracy she's been unraveling since winter-and closer to the person at the center of it all. With a killer who looks like a neighbor and secrets buried as deep as property lines, Penny must follow the honey trail before someone decides she knows too much. Murder at the Maple Market is the fifth book in the Fatal Frosting Mystery Series-a cozy mystery rich with autumn harvest, small-town warmth, and a sleuth who won't stop until every hidden thing comes to light.

Pages: 141, Paperback, Independently published