Pickle Predicament

Eugenia Pruitt spent forty years telling Brooke Ridge Falls that pickle brine was the secret to perfect health.

Then she drowned in it.

The night before she was to crown a new Pickle Queen — and hand over her legendary secret recipe — Eugenia is found floating in her own vat, the barn locked from the inside. The police call it a sad accident. Lexy Baker's grandmother and her Ladies Detective Club know better.

Soon the ladies are neck-deep in suspects: a freeloading nephew, a proudly second-best rival, a poison-pen letter writer with a flair for doom, corporate sharks from Big Pickle — and the Pickle Syndicate, all who had a reason to want Eugenia dead.

Add one three-foot pickle cake nobody's allowed to eat, and the ladies have a lot on their plates.