All Eliza Campbell wanted was a quiet vacation with her husband, her Chihuahua, and a chocolate workshop in the most charming town she'd ever seen. She found a dead body instead.
Eliza and Dean arrive in Willowbrook expecting long walks by the lake, lazy mornings on the cabin porch, and three days of hand-crafted truffles at the legendary Laurent Confectionery School. The kind of trip where the hardest decision is whether to have coffee before or after the sunrise. The kind of trip Eliza never takes because she's too busy running Pupcake Corner Café back home.
For once, she's letting someone else handle the espresso machine.
But when a Sunday morning walk with Pupcake leads to a clearing bordered by wild purple flowers and the body of the school's famous owner, Vivienne Laurent, the vacation takes a turn no one planned for. No visible injuries. No obvious explanation. Just a deep blue chocolate box half-hidden in the grass and an expression on Vivienne's face that Eliza can't stop thinking about.
The sheriff calls it homicide. The town goes quiet. And the workshop carries on with five students, a grieving instructor, and a room full of secrets that won't stay buried beneath the marble worktables.
Not everyone at the workshop is who they claim to be. Skills that don't match the story. Questions no one wants to answer. A name from the past that keeps surfacing in all the wrong places. And a connection to Vivienne that someone has gone to great lengths to hide.
Eliza tells herself she's just paying attention. That's what she does. She notices things. She makes lists in her phone. She talks it through with Pupcake, who listens carefully and has never once been wrong about a person.
But paying attention has a way of becoming something more. And the closer Eliza gets to the truth, the more someone wants to make sure she stops looking.
If you love cozy mysteries with warm marriages, small-town charm, a Chihuahua with perfect instincts, and a trail of chocolate-covered clues, Confections and Clues is your next favorite read. Grab your copy today.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Eliza and Dean arrive in Willowbrook expecting long walks by the lake, lazy mornings on the cabin porch, and three days of hand-crafted truffles at the legendary Laurent Confectionery School. The kind of trip where the hardest decision is whether to have coffee before or after the sunrise. The kind of trip Eliza never takes because she's too busy running Pupcake Corner Café back home.
For once, she's letting someone else handle the espresso machine.
But when a Sunday morning walk with Pupcake leads to a clearing bordered by wild purple flowers and the body of the school's famous owner, Vivienne Laurent, the vacation takes a turn no one planned for. No visible injuries. No obvious explanation. Just a deep blue chocolate box half-hidden in the grass and an expression on Vivienne's face that Eliza can't stop thinking about.
The sheriff calls it homicide. The town goes quiet. And the workshop carries on with five students, a grieving instructor, and a room full of secrets that won't stay buried beneath the marble worktables.
Not everyone at the workshop is who they claim to be. Skills that don't match the story. Questions no one wants to answer. A name from the past that keeps surfacing in all the wrong places. And a connection to Vivienne that someone has gone to great lengths to hide.
Eliza tells herself she's just paying attention. That's what she does. She notices things. She makes lists in her phone. She talks it through with Pupcake, who listens carefully and has never once been wrong about a person.
But paying attention has a way of becoming something more. And the closer Eliza gets to the truth, the more someone wants to make sure she stops looking.
If you love cozy mysteries with warm marriages, small-town charm, a Chihuahua with perfect instincts, and a trail of chocolate-covered clues, Confections and Clues is your next favorite read. Grab your copy today.
Genre: Cozy Mystery