Murder is the Secret Ingredient
(2026)(The third book in the Honeyford Harbor Culinary Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by R L Everheart
Someone contaminated the lemon extract. Now there's a body—and Eden Morales is holding the bottle.
When Honeyford Harbor's cutthroat bake-off queen drops dead mid-judging from a violent allergic reaction, caf'' owner Eden Morales finds herself at the top of Sheriff Whitaker's suspect list. She was closest to the victim. The tampered extract came from her station. And her habit of noticing things other people miss? Not exactly helping her look innocent.
With her chaos-magnet best friend Tessa working every angle and contractor Cal untangling the suspicious access points he flagged from the start, Eden's suspect list fills fast. There's Renata's furious sous chef, denied partnership one too many times. There's the glamorous rival baker who publicly declared she wasn't surprised Renata was dead. And somewhere beneath it all, a fourteen-year-old stolen recipe and a buried complaint point toward a motive nobody saw coming.
Even her mischievous kitten Crumb seems to know something.
In Honeyford Harbor, the most dangerous ingredient isn't always on the label—and the truth has been hiding in plain sight all along.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
When Honeyford Harbor's cutthroat bake-off queen drops dead mid-judging from a violent allergic reaction, caf'' owner Eden Morales finds herself at the top of Sheriff Whitaker's suspect list. She was closest to the victim. The tampered extract came from her station. And her habit of noticing things other people miss? Not exactly helping her look innocent.
With her chaos-magnet best friend Tessa working every angle and contractor Cal untangling the suspicious access points he flagged from the start, Eden's suspect list fills fast. There's Renata's furious sous chef, denied partnership one too many times. There's the glamorous rival baker who publicly declared she wasn't surprised Renata was dead. And somewhere beneath it all, a fourteen-year-old stolen recipe and a buried complaint point toward a motive nobody saw coming.
Even her mischievous kitten Crumb seems to know something.
In Honeyford Harbor, the most dangerous ingredient isn't always on the label—and the truth has been hiding in plain sight all along.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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