Honey Harvest Homicide
(2025)(The third book in the Lucy Blackstone Mystery series)
A Story by Maisy Marple and Wendy Winchester
In Brentwood Falls, a killer is about to get stung.
Lucy Blackstone loves three things: her job as head librarian, an excellent cup of tea, and the honey from June Holloway's prize-winning bees. But when June is found dead in her own apiary—covered in bee stings despite her decades of experience—Lucy suspects something far more sinister than a beekeeping accident.
As the town buzzes with theories, Lucy discovers June had been investigating environmental corruption related to a luxury development project that threatened her beloved wildflower meadows. The night before her death, June had arranged to meet Lucy with "something important" to share—a meeting that never happened.
Now Lucy must navigate a hive of suspects: Fern Delaney, June's rival beekeeper with a garden full of deadly monkshood plants; Virgil Tate, a gruff honey producer who accused June of sabotage; Mayor Levi Parson, who desperately wants June's land for his pet development project; and the smooth-talking developer Rufus Dunbar, whose plans for "Whispering Pines Resort" seem to be built on shaky ethical ground.
With help from her café-owner friend Hazel and the reluctant cooperation of handsome Deputy Tom Wentworth, Lucy follows a trail of clues as complex as a honeycomb. But as she gets closer to the truth, someone leaves a threatening note at the library, warning her to "drop this, or you'll get stung."
In a town where everyone has secrets, Lucy must use her librarian's eye for detail to uncover the truth—before she becomes the killer's next victim.
Genre: Mystery
Lucy Blackstone loves three things: her job as head librarian, an excellent cup of tea, and the honey from June Holloway's prize-winning bees. But when June is found dead in her own apiary—covered in bee stings despite her decades of experience—Lucy suspects something far more sinister than a beekeeping accident.
As the town buzzes with theories, Lucy discovers June had been investigating environmental corruption related to a luxury development project that threatened her beloved wildflower meadows. The night before her death, June had arranged to meet Lucy with "something important" to share—a meeting that never happened.
Now Lucy must navigate a hive of suspects: Fern Delaney, June's rival beekeeper with a garden full of deadly monkshood plants; Virgil Tate, a gruff honey producer who accused June of sabotage; Mayor Levi Parson, who desperately wants June's land for his pet development project; and the smooth-talking developer Rufus Dunbar, whose plans for "Whispering Pines Resort" seem to be built on shaky ethical ground.
With help from her café-owner friend Hazel and the reluctant cooperation of handsome Deputy Tom Wentworth, Lucy follows a trail of clues as complex as a honeycomb. But as she gets closer to the truth, someone leaves a threatening note at the library, warning her to "drop this, or you'll get stung."
In a town where everyone has secrets, Lucy must use her librarian's eye for detail to uncover the truth—before she becomes the killer's next victim.
Genre: Mystery
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