Jams, Jellies & Murder

Heather Mitchell came home to Sunday Lake for peace and quiet. What she found was a dead body behind a jar of blackberry preserves.

After life in the city goes sideways, returning to her Florida lakeside hometown felt like the safe choice. Sunday Lake hasn't changed much — there's still the farmers' market, the Ladies' Circle, her mother's Sunday dinners, and the charming veterinarian next door she's definitely not thinking about. It's the kind of town where everyone waves, nobody locks their doors, and the biggest drama is usually who wins the jam competition at the craft fair.

Until it isn't.

When beloved jam-maker Dottie Hutchins is found standing over a body at the Sunday Lake Fair, the whole town wants to believe she's innocent. Heather knows she is. But with a shady real estate broker dead, his secrets buried deeper than anyone imagined, and a second murder shaking the community to its core, believing and proving are two very different things.

Armed with her best friend, a circle of church ladies who know everything about everyone, a loyal dog named Dash, and one very opinionated Siamese cat, Heather is about to discover that coming home means more than she bargained for — and that some secrets have a very long shelf life.

Jams, Jellies & Murder is the first book in the Sunday Lady Sleuths series — a cozy mystery set in the warm, sun-dappled heart of central Florida, where community runs deep, gossip travels faster than the lake breeze, and one woman's instincts might be the difference between justice and a very sticky situation.

Perfect for fans of Joanne Fluke, Laura Childs, and Diane Mott Davidson.