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Coming in January 2024--DEADLY TO THE CORE, the first book in the Cider House Mysteries!
Perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Julie Anne Lindsey, when Kate Mulligan inherits her great uncle’s fruit orchard, she quickly realizes that apples aren’t the only thing that can have rotten cores.
After losing her husband in a terrible car crash, thirty-five-year-old Kate is left to pick up the pieces of her life alone. Although she has physically recovered, she worries her spirit never will. But when she learns that she has inherited a fruit orchard in a small town just outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from her great uncle Stan, she takes this as an opportunity ripe for the picking. Kate knew immediately what to do with it: open a cider house. Her hopeful plans fall far from the tree when she finds the body of the orchard manager, Carl Randolph, leaving her to figure out who is at the core of this murder.
She had been in correspondence with Carl, who had agreed with her brilliant idea of opening a cider house. But not everyone is so quick to buy what she was selling—Uncle Stan’s lawyer, Robert Larabee, paints a less rosy financial outlook of the orchard’s past, present, and future.
Kate discovers that Carl had large, unexplained deposits to his bank account and it becomes clear that either he was blackmailing someone, or someone was paying him to keep quiet. Meanwhile, Kate and her neighbors receive offers to buy their property from a mysterious buyer. And there’s more than meets the eye with the neighboring orchard owner, Daniel Martinez, although Kate can’t quite put her finger on if it’s sweet or sour.
Will she be able to pick out the bad apple among the bunch before it’s too late?
PRE-ORDER IT HERE!
Perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Julie Anne Lindsey, when Kate Mulligan inherits her great uncle’s fruit orchard, she quickly realizes that apples aren’t the only thing that can have rotten cores.
After losing her husband in a terrible car crash, thirty-five-year-old Kate is left to pick up the pieces of her life alone. Although she has physically recovered, she worries her spirit never will. But when she learns that she has inherited a fruit orchard in a small town just outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from her great uncle Stan, she takes this as an opportunity ripe for the picking. Kate knew immediately what to do with it: open a cider house. Her hopeful plans fall far from the tree when she finds the body of the orchard manager, Carl Randolph, leaving her to figure out who is at the core of this murder.
She had been in correspondence with Carl, who had agreed with her brilliant idea of opening a cider house. But not everyone is so quick to buy what she was selling—Uncle Stan’s lawyer, Robert Larabee, paints a less rosy financial outlook of the orchard’s past, present, and future.
Kate discovers that Carl had large, unexplained deposits to his bank account and it becomes clear that either he was blackmailing someone, or someone was paying him to keep quiet. Meanwhile, Kate and her neighbors receive offers to buy their property from a mysterious buyer. And there’s more than meets the eye with the neighboring orchard owner, Daniel Martinez, although Kate can’t quite put her finger on if it’s sweet or sour.
Will she be able to pick out the bad apple among the bunch before it’s too late?
PRE-ORDER IT HERE!
Praise for Front Page Murder:
"St. Anthony splendidly evokes the era through such details as the town’s victory garden and Woolworth’s lunch counter as she highlights the impact of the war on traditional women’s roles." --Publishers Weekly “A gutsy and likable sleuth . . . replete with historical touches.” --Kirkus “Well written, well researched and with a great sense of time and place, this book gives a different slant to WWII.” —Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook, The Tuscan Child and the Royal Spyness series “A strong, take-charge female protagonist and a twisty plot to keep readers guessing . . . I fell in love with [Irene Ingram] and know you will too!” —Annette Dashofy, USA Today bestselling author of the Agatha Award-nominated Zoe Chambers Mystery series “A gutsy heroine and a tight, fast moving plot set against the atmospheric backdrop of America’s Homefront in WW2.” —Tessa Arlen, author of Poppy Redfern and the Fatal Flyers, A Woman of WWII mystery series |
Praise for Death on a Deadline:
“A warmhearted tale of a small-town attempt to aid the war effort, complicated by greed, jealousy, and murder.” --Kirkus Reviews “The writing and the characters are true to the time and place, the dialog is vivid, and the plot is satisfyingly complex.” --Historical Novel Society “Cozy mystery writing at its best.” --Midwest Book Review “A solid follow-up to the first novel.” —Red Carpet Crash “A tantalizing, Agatha Christie-like mystery . . . a must read for history fans.” --Gumshoe Review "Death on a Deadline is a historical fiction with depth, mystery, and a little romance that left me on the edge of my seat more than once. But I still want more! I look forward to reading more books in this series. " --Novels Alive |