The Handyman's Last Bite

Book 1 of the Bay View Harbor Mysteries. Gypsy Lee Miller had a successful career in Washington, DC, but felt adrift.  Her friends thought she was nuts when she decided to go back to her starting point before forging ahead. That point was Bay View Harbor on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. At her cousin Linda's suggestion, she renovates a building to become the Bay View Harbor Bakery and the two become entrepreneurs. Business doesn't pick up rapidly but it is growing until Gordy, the local handyman, drops dead on the bakery floor soon after taking a bite of a lemon cupcake.

Gordy owed money to a lot of people and was fixated on not being well-to-do. Was he trying to blackmail powerful people? When rumors spread and clues are sparse, Gypsy Lee uses her persistence -- against advice -- to delve into what happened. Being known as the Killer Cupcake Woman is bad for business. But the questions she's asking annoy powerful people and bring unwanted attention in the form of bricks through her bakery window and smashed taillights. She's on the right track, but will she be around to get to the finish line?