The Biscuit Tin Murders

A Twisty Murder Mystery of a Small-Town Scandal, a Curious Newcomer, a Wedding Disrupted, and the Secret the Village KeptBy Clare R. Underwood

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Someone strangled the town gossip at the wedding of the year. Now Clara's niece is holding the murder weapon. Clara Hawthorne has spent two years rebuilding her life around The Biscuit Tin, her Vermont patisserie, and the quiet rhythms of Maple Creek. She is not a detective. She has no interest in becoming one. But when seventeen-year-old Emily — gentle, poetry-quoting Emily who works the counter after school — is arrested on circumstantial evidence, Clara realizes the police have already closed the case. Detective or not, she's the only one left to look. The victim is Portia Dunn, Maple Creek's most formidable collector of secrets. She'd spent decades gathering them the way Clara gathers vintage cookie cutters — carefully, methodically, never letting go. And at the wedding reception, she was about to serve up a devastating revelation. Someone silenced her first. Clara pulls on one thread and finds a tangle. A florist being blackmailed into bankruptcy. A church treasurer with mysteriously doctored ledgers. A bridesmaid whose alibi smells of marzipan and lies. A best man whose story crumbles like overworked pastry. Each suspect had motive. Each had opportunity. And the embezzlement scheme running through St. Alban's Church is only the beginning of what Portia knew. The deeper Clara digs, the more certain she becomes: this wasn't a crime of passion. It was calculated. Desperate. And whoever did it isn't finished. With the wedding postponed, the town turning against her family, and a killer who has already demonstrated a chilling willingness to tie up loose ends, Clara must use every tool in her baker's arsenal — patience, precision, the intimate knowledge of what makes a recipe go dangerously wrong — to trap the real killer before she becomes the next ingredient in a murderer's plan. The Biscuit Tin Murders is a warm and twisty cozy mystery about small-town scandal, family loyalty, buried secrets, culinary charm, and a killer hiding in plain sight among the maple trees. Perfect for readers who love cozy mysteries with recipes, small-town murder whodunits, amateur female sleuths, clean mysteries with no gore, and fans of Anthea Fraser and Rachel Ekstrom Courage. A twisty, cozy whodunit you'll devour in one sitting.

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