A Spot of Murder: A Death Café Mystery
In Marigold Bay, the kindest soul can keep the coldest secret.
It's deep winter, and the little harbor town of Marigold Bay is stringing lanterns for its midwinter night of remembrance. Grief counselor Maeve Calloway is still running her death caf s in the back room of the Crumb and Kettle - tea, cake, and honest talk about dying - when the town's most beloved man walks in.
Gentle Gerry Amory, the retired schoolmaster who keeps the harbor clock and taught half of Marigold Bay to read, quietly vows to open "a door he has kept shut a long time" before Lantern Night. Four days later he's found at the foot of the icy sea steps, and the clock in his tower has stopped at the hour he fell.
A slip on the ice, the whole heartbroken town agrees. Let the dear man rest. Everyone but Maeve, who heard what he said and knows a shove when the town is calling it a fall.
To prove it, Maeve must reopen a fire twenty-six winters cold, shield a grieving stranger the town has decided to suspect, and keep the one promise that makes her caf worth having - while the kindest person in Marigold Bay smiles, and gives, and watches her come.
A Spot of Murder is the second Death Caf Mystery: a warm, twisty, fair-play cozy about small towns with long memories, the good deeds that bury a truth, and one stubborn woman who cannot let a wrongness lie.
Perfect for readers who love:
Small-town, seaside cozy mysteries with a close-knit recurring castA warm, wry amateur sleuth and a slow-burn detectiveFair-play clues, an emotional heart, and no goreLouise Penny's Three Pines, Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club, and the cozies of Ellery Adams and Jenn McKinlayThe first rule of a death caf is that nobody dies. Someone keeps forgetting.
Pour a cup and pull up a chair. The Snug is open, and the lanterns are lit.
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