A Recipe For Murder

A RECIPE FOR MURDER

In the picturesque town of Millfield, Vermont, someone has added a deadly ingredient to the annual baking competition...

When renowned cookbook author and celebrity judge Vivian Montgomery is found dead during Millfield’s prestigious annual baking festival, local bakery owner Ellie Parker becomes both suspect and amateur sleuth. The evidence? A poisoned pastry delivered in one of Ellie’s distinctive Sweet Beginnings boxes—a box she never delivered.

As the small town simmers with suspicion, Ellie must clear her name by finding the real killer hiding among Millfield’s seemingly innocent residents. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes that Vivian’s cutthroat career was built on stolen recipes and ruined lives—creating a menu of suspects that includes:

• A temperamental ex-husband with a history of throwing more than insults
• A resentful daughter living in her mother’s shadow
• A festival organizer with financial secrets worth killing to protect
• A seven-time champion jam maker publicly humiliated by the victim
• And a quiet town librarian with a connection to Vivian’s past that nobody suspected

With the help of her tea shop owner best friend and her former-sheriff father, Ellie uncovers a decades-old culinary injustice at the heart of the murder—a stolen legacy that transformed one baker’s downfall into another’s rise to fame.

But the killer is still cooking up trouble, and Ellie soon finds herself in the crosshairs. Racing against time, she must follow a complex recipe of clues before the case goes from simmering to burned beyond recognition—and she becomes the next course in a vengeful chef’s deadly menu.

A Recipe for Murder serves up the perfect blend of small-town charm and culinary intrigue in this delectable cozy mystery that proves revenge, like the perfect pastry, is sometimes best served cold.