A Taffy to Die For

About A Taffy to Die For

After a layoff and a quiet divorce, Hazel Brennan trades her city disappointments for the salt air of Honeysuckle Harbor, the little seaside resort town where she spent every childhood summer. Now she pulls taffy by hand in the front window of the Salty Pearl, the vintage candy shop her great-aunt left her, cutting fudge from a copper kettle while tourists drift in off the sun-warmed boardwalk. It's the sweetest fresh start she could have asked for — until the Fourth of July festival ends with the head of the Boardwalk Association dead in his lawn chair, a glass of iced tea beside him, and two hundred identical cups from which any one of them could have carried something far worse than sugar. Cyrus Pruett wanted to sell the boardwalk out from under the town, and he'd made an enemy of nearly everyone on it — which means half of Honeysuckle Harbor had a reason to want him gone. But the Salty Pearl is where the whole town comes to talk, and Hazel has never been able to leave a puzzle (or a wrong-cut square of fudge) alone. With her brassy best friend Frankie, her sharp-eyed young shop assistant Mia, a food-obsessed beach mutt named Biscuit, and a county detective she once shared a single summer with a lifetime ago, Hazel starts sifting the harmless gossip from the dangerous truth. In a town this small and this sweet, the last thing anyone expects is a killer at the candy counter — and the very last thing Hazel expects is how close to home this one is going to hit