Deadly to the Core
Series: Cider House Mystery #1
Author: Joyce Tremel
Genre: Cozy Culinary Mystery
Setting: Orchardville, Pennsylvania
Release Date: January 16, 2024, by Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 0
Summary:
Perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Julie Anne Lindsey, when Kate Mulligan inherits her great uncle’s fruit orchard, she quickly realizes that apples aren’t the only thing that can have rotten cores.
After losing her husband in a terrible car crash, thirty-five-year-old Kate is left to pick up the pieces of her life alone. Although she has physically recovered, she worries her spirit never will. But when she learns that she has inherited a fruit orchard in a small town just outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from her great uncle Stan, she takes this as an opportunity ripe for the picking. Kate knew immediately what to do with it: open a cider house. Her hopeful plans fall far from the tree when she finds the body of the orchard manager, Carl Randolph, leaving her to figure out who is at the core of this murder.
She had been in correspondence with Carl, who had agreed with her brilliant idea of opening a cider house. But not everyone is so quick to buy what she was selling—Uncle Stan’s lawyer, Robert Larabee, paints a less rosy financial outlook of the orchard’s past, present, and future.
Kate discovers that Carl had large, unexplained deposits to his bank account and it becomes clear that either he was blackmailing someone, or someone was paying him to keep quiet. Meanwhile, Kate and her neighbors receive offers to buy their property from a mysterious buyer. And there’s more than meets the eye with the neighboring orchard owner, Daniel Martinez, although Kate can’t quite put her finger on if it’s sweet or sour.
Will she be able to pick out the bad apple among the bunch before it’s too late?
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About Joyce Tremel
Joyce Tremel was a police secretary for ten years and more than once envisioned the demise of certain co-workers, but settled on writing as a way to keep herself out of jail. She is the author of the award winning Brewing Trouble Mysteries and the upcoming Cider House Mysteries.
As Joyce St. Anthony she is the author of the Homefront News Mysteries. The first in the series, FRONT PAGE MURDER, was released March 8, 2022. Book number two, DEATH ON A DEADLINE was released November 8th, 2022.
Joyce is a native Pittsburgher and lives in the beautiful Laurel Highlands east of Pittsburgh with her husband and two cats named Hops and Lager.
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Sounds like a book I would enjoy reading. I grew up across the street from an apple orchard and it would bring back memories.