Muffins, Motive, and Mayhem
An Unputdownable Murder Mystery of an Unlikely Suspect and a Holiday Homicide, and the Secret Worth Killing ForBy Clare R. Underwood
Length7h 1m
About this audiobook
She just wanted a blue ribbon.
She found a body instead.
Lily O'Connor has poured everything into her Sweet Hollow bakery. The Harvest Festival is supposed to be her moment — the one day a year her prize-winning pumpkin muffins get the recognition they deserve. Instead, she finds the town's most feared food critic face-down in her display batch, stone-cold dead.
The poison came from Lily's own pantry.
The footage shows her hot-headed younger sister slipping something into the batter.
Now Detective Nick Marlowe has what he thinks is an open-and-shut case, and Lily's sister is sitting in a cell.
Lily knows what she saw. She knows her sister. And she knows this town.
So she starts asking questions.
Every crumb leads deeper. The critic had enemies from the mayor's mansion to the corner bookshop — jealousies simmering for years, old grudges folded into the fabric of Sweet Hollow like a secret ingredient nobody wanted to name. He'd destroyed careers with a sentence and buried livelihoods with a star rating. Half the festival wanted him gone.
And someone was willing to kill again to keep the real reason buried.
With each clue Lily uncovers, the picture grows darker — and the killer more desperate. The coziest town in the county is hiding something rotten at its center, and the closer Lily gets to the truth, the more certain she becomes that the next body found at the festival could be hers.
She didn't ask for this. But she's the only one who cares enough to dig.
Muffins, Motive, and Mayhem is a charming and twisty cozy mystery about small-town secrets, sisterly loyalty, culinary rivalry, wrongful suspicion, and the truth hiding in plain sight.
Perfect for readers who love amateur sleuth mysteries, small-town murder whodunits, culinary cozies, festival settings, and fans of Anthea Fraser and Rachel Ekstrom Courage.
A twisty, cozy whodunit you'll devour in one sitting.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length7 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Golden Muffin
3Chapter 2 - A Pinch of Suspicion
4Chapter 3 - Crumbs and Clues
5Chapter 4 - Bitter Almonds
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6Chapter 5 - A Sift Through Ashes
7Chapter 6 - The Buttered Side Down
8Chapter 7 - A Rolling Scone Gathers No Lies
9Chapter 8 - The Icing on the Mystery
10Chapter 9 - Half-Baked Confession
11Chapter 10 - A Stitch in Time
12Chapter 11 - The Proof is in the Pudding
13Chapter 12 - Kneading Answers
14Chapter 13 - A Sticky Situation
15Chapter 14 - Too Many Cooks
16Chapter 15 - The Missing Ingredient
17Chapter 16 - A Dash of Deceit
18Chapter 17 - A Taste of Danger
19Chapter 18 - Rising Suspicion
20Chapter 19 - Flour Power
21Chapter 20 - The Final Whisk
22Chapter 21 - Sweet Surrender
23Chapter 22 - A New Recipe
24Chapter 23 - The Sweetest Victory
25Chapter 24 - The Last Crumb
26Chapter 25 - A Pinch of Mystery
27Epilogue
28About the Author
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