Cold Case, Warm Hands
(2026)(The fifth book in the Maple Hollow Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Tessa Teacraft
Walter Pruitt has had the same black coffee, no sugar, for twelve years — and never once took off his glasses. When he's found dead at the bottom of his porch steps, ruled an accident, café owner Sadie Harper can't shake one detail: the glasses are missing.
As Maple Hollow decorates the green for its first Winter Lantern Walk, an old land trust pulls Sadie into a case with deeper roots than expected. Suspicion lands first on Ed Coyle, the foreman who unearthed the trust's buried paperwork, then hardens around Walter's estranged nephew, Cole — entangled in his uncle's estate and arrested for a murder Sadie is certain he didn't commit. While Cole sits in custody, the real killer pours cider at the memorial, trusted and unafraid.
Between lantern light, a detective imagining a future with her, and a cat with a nose for evidence, Sadie has to warm to a cold case before Maple Hollow loses someone else.
Some secrets stay buried for thirty years. Some only need one missing pair of glasses to come undone.
Genre: Mystery
As Maple Hollow decorates the green for its first Winter Lantern Walk, an old land trust pulls Sadie into a case with deeper roots than expected. Suspicion lands first on Ed Coyle, the foreman who unearthed the trust's buried paperwork, then hardens around Walter's estranged nephew, Cole — entangled in his uncle's estate and arrested for a murder Sadie is certain he didn't commit. While Cole sits in custody, the real killer pours cider at the memorial, trusted and unafraid.
Between lantern light, a detective imagining a future with her, and a cat with a nose for evidence, Sadie has to warm to a cold case before Maple Hollow loses someone else.
Some secrets stay buried for thirty years. Some only need one missing pair of glasses to come undone.
Genre: Mystery
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