Ellie Alexander meets Sheila Connolly, but make it crisp and cunning in this culinary cozy mystery. —————— The fall harvest season has arrived at Goldenleaf Apple Farm. This year, the orchards are keeping a secret… When apple farmer Vernon Reed is found dead, suspicion falls swiftly and heavily on Isaac ‘Izzy’ Lennox: the exuberant young theater enthusiast whose fingerprints are on the murder weapon. The town wants answers. The evidence seems clear. Laura Evans doesn’t believe it for a second. Refusing to let her friend’s reputation be destroyed, she digs into Vernon’s secretive final months alongside her observant landlady Evelyn Chan and sharp-witted colleague Jasmine Williams. What they uncover is messier than a simple motive: a man with secrets, a business with fractures, and a community that had no reason to doubt. Goldenleaf’s orchards are still heavy with the season’s harvest. But someone is watching Laura’s every move. In a town where everyone knows everyone, the deadliest secrets hide behind the most trusted faces. Can Laura expose the truth before the killer buries it for good?
