Paws, Pastries & The Clockmaker's Wife
(2026)(The fifth book in the Maple Glen Mystery series)
A novel by Becky Bakewell
In Maple Glen, even time can't hide the truth forever.When a mysterious package appears on the counter of The Daley Dough, bakery owner Mo Daley thinks she's seen this story before.
Wrapped in brown paper and tied with twine, the package contains the final confession of Roland Hatch, Maple Glen's late clockmaker—and a haunting promise that the truth about his wife, Eleanor, has been buried for nearly forty years. Declared mentally unstable and committed to a psychiatric facility in 1987, Eleanor spent her final years branded as delusional.
But Eleanor wasn't imagining things.
With librarian June Morrison by her side, Mo follows a trail of hidden journals, forgotten records, and long-kept secrets that lead straight to one of Maple Glen's most powerful families. As pressure mounts and influential townspeople try to steer the investigation off course, Mo discovers that some secrets were protected for generations—and some people will do almost anything to keep them that way.
Fortunately, Mo isn't investigating alone. Biscuit the dog and Sprinkles the cat seem unusually determined to point their humans in the right direction.
Filled with small-town charm, loyal friendships, clever clues, and a decades-old mystery waiting to be solved, Paws, Pastries & The Clockmaker's Wife is a heartwarming cozy mystery about conscience, courage, and finally giving a forgotten woman her voice back.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Wrapped in brown paper and tied with twine, the package contains the final confession of Roland Hatch, Maple Glen's late clockmaker—and a haunting promise that the truth about his wife, Eleanor, has been buried for nearly forty years. Declared mentally unstable and committed to a psychiatric facility in 1987, Eleanor spent her final years branded as delusional.
But Eleanor wasn't imagining things.
With librarian June Morrison by her side, Mo follows a trail of hidden journals, forgotten records, and long-kept secrets that lead straight to one of Maple Glen's most powerful families. As pressure mounts and influential townspeople try to steer the investigation off course, Mo discovers that some secrets were protected for generations—and some people will do almost anything to keep them that way.
Fortunately, Mo isn't investigating alone. Biscuit the dog and Sprinkles the cat seem unusually determined to point their humans in the right direction.
Filled with small-town charm, loyal friendships, clever clues, and a decades-old mystery waiting to be solved, Paws, Pastries & The Clockmaker's Wife is a heartwarming cozy mystery about conscience, courage, and finally giving a forgotten woman her voice back.
Genre: Cozy Mystery