PUMPKIN MAPLE PIE MURDER

Halloween in Heaventown has never been sweeter—or more deadly.

Main Street is glowing with orange lights, pumpkins crowd every doorstep, and the entire town is preparing for its annual Harvest Trick-or-Treat celebration. At Nonna's Delights, Elizabeth Murphy and her lively Irish family are working overtime, filling the bakery cases with pumpkin muffins, maple cookies, cinnamon-spiced treats, and the star of the season—Nonna's legendary Pumpkin Maple Pie, crowned with its unmistakable maple-pecan crumble.

Elizabeth should be enjoying the celebration. Instead, she can't shake the feeling that something is wrong.

A stranger has been watching the bakery. Commercial property consultant Gavin Mercer has arrived in Heaventown with an unsettling interest in Main Street—and he seems to know far more about the town's businesses and their owners than any outsider should. When Gavin is found murdered behind the town's cheerful harvest decorations, a bakery box and a pumpkin pie appear to point straight toward Nonna's Delights.

But Elizabeth knows that pie.

And the one beside the body isn't Nonna's.

As suspicion spreads through Heaventown, Elizabeth discovers that Gavin had been digging into a tangled web of property deals, shell companies, frightened business owners, and secrets hidden behind some of the town's most trusted faces. The evidence seems to identify the killer almost too perfectly—and Elizabeth has learned that when a murder case looks that easy, someone may be working very hard to make it look that way.

With prosecutor Drake Doyle beside her and six-pound Papillon Mr. Chips following clues no human nose could find, Elizabeth must separate lies from red herrings before a killer realizes just how close she's getting. And Mr. Chips may prove to be far more than the bakery's adorable mascot when his stubborn curiosity uncovers a piece of evidence capable of turning the entire investigation upside down.

Filled with Halloween festivities, small-town secrets, family dinners, slow-burn romance, mouthwatering fall baking, an unforgettable little dog, and a mystery with more than one convincing suspect, Pumpkin Maple Pie Murder is the third delicious mystery from Heaventown.

Because in Heaventown, some family recipes are worth protecting.

And some secrets are worth killing for.