A Crumble To Die For: A Cozy Culinary Whodunit with Recipes (Cranberry Cove Bakery Mysteries)

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Everyone in Cranberry Cove hated the last victim. Everyone loved this one. That's the problem.December has come down hard on Cranberry Cove, Maine, and baker Maggie Hart has her hands full: holiday orders stacked to the rafters, a cat named Biscuit waging a calculated campaign against the Christmas tree, and a certain detective whose car idles outside Hart's Bakery every Friday at twelve past six.Then, on the night of the town's beloved tree lighting — with the whole Cove singing carols on the green — Agnes "Nan" Quimby, keeper of the Harborlight Inn for forty years, is found dead at the foot of her own back stairs. A tragic slip on the ice. Except the lamp above those stairs didn't burn out. Someone unscrewed it.Nan was the kindest woman in Knox County, days away from a secret announcement that would have changed the town forever. So who kills a woman everyone loved? A disinherited nephew in expensive cashmere? A hotel man with a fat folder and an empty signature line? The silent guest in Room Four, who pays cash and watches the harbor like it owes her something?To find the answer, Maggie will have to learn the difference between what a town remembers and what actually happened — because on the night of the lighting, nothing ran to paper, and somebody is counting on that.A Crumble to Die For is the second Cranberry Cove Bakery Mystery: a clean, cozy Christmas whodunit with no gore, a slow-burn romance, a cat in charge, and two cherished recipes from Hart's Bakery in the back. It can be read on its own — but the scones are better if you start at the beginning. Read more