Chicken Pot Payback
(2025)(The first book in the Maine Widow Detective Mystery series)
A novel by Lucy Lemon
A convicted killer is on death row with two days left—and still swears he didn’t kill his brother. Sweetie Chapman believes him. And she's bringing pie to coax the truth out of Merlin Terrance McGraw once and for all...because we all know, dead men tell no tales. Or do they?
When retired schoolteacher and widow Sweetie Chapman walks into the prison with a homemade chicken pot pie, no one expects the man condemned to die to start talking. But Sweetie has a gift: in her cozy, old-fashioned interrogation room—complete with sweet tea and dessert—she gets the truth every time.
Merlin Terrance McGraw has held his silence for twenty years. Now, with the clock ticking, Sweetie must unravel a web of family betrayal, buried evidence, and a town too scared to face its past. What she uncovers could clear a man’s name—or destroy everything Pine Bluff thought it knew about justice.
Murder, secrets, and casseroles collide in this gripping small-town mystery where the truth is always served warm.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
When retired schoolteacher and widow Sweetie Chapman walks into the prison with a homemade chicken pot pie, no one expects the man condemned to die to start talking. But Sweetie has a gift: in her cozy, old-fashioned interrogation room—complete with sweet tea and dessert—she gets the truth every time.
Merlin Terrance McGraw has held his silence for twenty years. Now, with the clock ticking, Sweetie must unravel a web of family betrayal, buried evidence, and a town too scared to face its past. What she uncovers could clear a man’s name—or destroy everything Pine Bluff thought it knew about justice.
Murder, secrets, and casseroles collide in this gripping small-town mystery where the truth is always served warm.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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