Bees, Brooms & Blackmail: A Witchy Garden Cozy Mystery

About Bees, Brooms & Blackmail: A Witchy Garden Cozy Mystery

The Honey & Herb Festival should have been good for business and good for Briarhaven. Instead, it turns into a public nightmare when the local judge overseeing a corruption case collapses in front of a crowd, killed by what looks like a tragic bee sting. Ivy Hart knows a staged scene when she sees one.

As Moonroot fills with rumor, fear, and packet-fast lies, Ivy digs into the judge’s final hours and finds a darker problem than murder. Blackmail files are moving through town, half the names are familiar, and one of them is hers. A payment she never received is now tied to her name, her work, and her credibility.

With Saffron, her one-eyed troublemaker cat, underfoot and danger closing in, Ivy has to untangle a case built to destroy trust itself. If everyone is compromised, no one can stand together. If no one can stand together, the killer wins before the truth even gets to court.

To stop the next death, Ivy must follow the money, test every record, and expose the people using fear as a tool. But in Briarhaven, the most dangerous thing is not the lie. It is how quickly people want to believe it.