Murder at the Apple Farm
(2026)(The tenth book in the Maplewood Bay Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Kaylynn Smith
A charming apple farm.
A dead investor in the cider house.
And one harvest weekend rotting from the core.
Blakely Monroe expects Hollow Brook Apple Farm’s Harvest Weekend to mean overflowing guests at Oceanspray B&B, cider donuts, and maybe a pie-contest disaster or two. Instead, she finds a body beneath the antique cider press—and steps straight into a nest of debt, secrets, and buried grudges.
With Bobby reading the land like it’s trying to warn him and Scout nosing out trouble at every turn, Blakely starts following the clues. Tessa, the orchard manager, was openly battling the victim over the farm’s future. Wren, the farm baker, has plenty of old hurt and fresh anger of her own. But the deeper Blakely digs, the clearer it becomes that someone is stripping the orchard from the inside.
Now the harvest lights are glowing, the suspect list keeps growing, and if Blakely misses the truth, Hollow Brook won’t just lose its future—it will become the next thing buried in the orchard.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
A dead investor in the cider house.
And one harvest weekend rotting from the core.
Blakely Monroe expects Hollow Brook Apple Farm’s Harvest Weekend to mean overflowing guests at Oceanspray B&B, cider donuts, and maybe a pie-contest disaster or two. Instead, she finds a body beneath the antique cider press—and steps straight into a nest of debt, secrets, and buried grudges.
With Bobby reading the land like it’s trying to warn him and Scout nosing out trouble at every turn, Blakely starts following the clues. Tessa, the orchard manager, was openly battling the victim over the farm’s future. Wren, the farm baker, has plenty of old hurt and fresh anger of her own. But the deeper Blakely digs, the clearer it becomes that someone is stripping the orchard from the inside.
Now the harvest lights are glowing, the suspect list keeps growing, and if Blakely misses the truth, Hollow Brook won’t just lose its future—it will become the next thing buried in the orchard.
Genre: Cozy Mystery