Deadly Deep-Dish Alibi
(2025)(The third book in the Griddlewitch Mystery series)
A novel by Diana Beckett
Mara Kincaid does not do redemption tours.
Not after the public crash that sent her crawling back to Maple Haven. Not after the diner became her cage and her shield. And definitely not with a camera crew circling her like she is tonight’s entertainment.
But Slice Week is in town, and Maple Haven’s festival board has decided Mara’s comeback would make a perfect headline. Smile for the sponsors. Bake for charity. Let the town pretend it is generous instead of hungry.
Then the judge shows up.
He is loud, smug, and carrying a private tasting kit like a weapon. Worse, he keeps hinting he has paperwork that could ruin one of Maple Haven’s most beloved families. By the time Mara realizes he is not bluffing, he is already on the floor in a restricted back hallway, collapsing like his body just betrayed him.
Everyone wants it to be a tragic medical event. Everyone wants Slice Week to continue. Everyone wants Mara to keep her hands clean and her mouth shut.
Too bad Mara’s magic has other ideas.
The air around the body tastes like triumph and fear, and Mara cannot shake the feeling that this death was engineered with the kind of precision only an expert would attempt. When a missing satchel, a wiped phone, and a suspicious festival access badge point straight into the festival’s inner circle, Mara is forced to dig while the town tries to bury the story in frosting and denial.
Because if this judge really came to expose a historic fraud, the killer did not just want him dead.
They wanted the truth dead with him.
Deadly Deep-Dish Alibi is Book 3 in The Griddlewitch Mysteries, a first-person culinary witch cozy mystery series packed with small-town secrets, sharp humor, slow-burn romantic tension, and a heroine who keeps learning that the sweetest things can still cut.
Genre: Mystery
Not after the public crash that sent her crawling back to Maple Haven. Not after the diner became her cage and her shield. And definitely not with a camera crew circling her like she is tonight’s entertainment.
But Slice Week is in town, and Maple Haven’s festival board has decided Mara’s comeback would make a perfect headline. Smile for the sponsors. Bake for charity. Let the town pretend it is generous instead of hungry.
Then the judge shows up.
He is loud, smug, and carrying a private tasting kit like a weapon. Worse, he keeps hinting he has paperwork that could ruin one of Maple Haven’s most beloved families. By the time Mara realizes he is not bluffing, he is already on the floor in a restricted back hallway, collapsing like his body just betrayed him.
Everyone wants it to be a tragic medical event. Everyone wants Slice Week to continue. Everyone wants Mara to keep her hands clean and her mouth shut.
Too bad Mara’s magic has other ideas.
The air around the body tastes like triumph and fear, and Mara cannot shake the feeling that this death was engineered with the kind of precision only an expert would attempt. When a missing satchel, a wiped phone, and a suspicious festival access badge point straight into the festival’s inner circle, Mara is forced to dig while the town tries to bury the story in frosting and denial.
Because if this judge really came to expose a historic fraud, the killer did not just want him dead.
They wanted the truth dead with him.
Deadly Deep-Dish Alibi is Book 3 in The Griddlewitch Mysteries, a first-person culinary witch cozy mystery series packed with small-town secrets, sharp humor, slow-burn romantic tension, and a heroine who keeps learning that the sweetest things can still cut.
Genre: Mystery
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