Lauren Hayes is looking forward to Riverside Glen's twentieth annual Octoberfest celebration. As the owner of The Hop Stop brewing supply shop, she's excited to participate in the Brew Masters Challenge alongside her best friend Jenna, and to celebrate festival founder Gregory Walsh's remarkable two-decade legacy. But when Gregory is found dead in the Community Center basement on opening night, the autumn celebration turns into a investigation that will test everything Lauren thought she knew about her small town. With her perpetually sleepy basset hound Porter providing minimal assistance and maximum moral support, Lauren finds herself drawn into a web of grudges, ambitions, and long-buried resentments.
As Lauren begins asking questions, she discovers that Gregory's plans to step down as coordinator had created unexpected tensions throughout the brewing community. A longtime vendor facing replacement, an ambitious event planner with corporate backing, a property owner threatened with eminent domain, and a former business partner nursing old wounds—everyone had reasons to be angry with Gregory, but who was angry enough to kill? When threatening texts warn her to stop investigating, Lauren realizes the killer is watching her every move. With Chief Novak's guidance and Jenna's unwavering friendship, she must navigate a dangerous game of secrets and lies to uncover the truth.
In a town where everyone knows everyone, can Lauren identify which neighbor turned deadly before the killer decides she's gotten too close? Pour yourself a glass and settle in for a cozy mystery filled with autumn charm, small-town warmth, and a murder most calculated. The twentieth anniversary of Riverside Glen's Octoberfest will be one nobody forgets, for all the wrong reasons—unless Lauren can brew up justice and restore her beloved community's peace.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
As Lauren begins asking questions, she discovers that Gregory's plans to step down as coordinator had created unexpected tensions throughout the brewing community. A longtime vendor facing replacement, an ambitious event planner with corporate backing, a property owner threatened with eminent domain, and a former business partner nursing old wounds—everyone had reasons to be angry with Gregory, but who was angry enough to kill? When threatening texts warn her to stop investigating, Lauren realizes the killer is watching her every move. With Chief Novak's guidance and Jenna's unwavering friendship, she must navigate a dangerous game of secrets and lies to uncover the truth.
In a town where everyone knows everyone, can Lauren identify which neighbor turned deadly before the killer decides she's gotten too close? Pour yourself a glass and settle in for a cozy mystery filled with autumn charm, small-town warmth, and a murder most calculated. The twentieth anniversary of Riverside Glen's Octoberfest will be one nobody forgets, for all the wrong reasons—unless Lauren can brew up justice and restore her beloved community's peace.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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