Poison in the Easter Basket: A Cozy Mystery

About Poison in the Easter Basket: A Cozy Mystery

When a polished town favorite collapses after taking a single chocolate bunny at Larkspur Cove’s Easter Basket Showcase, chocolatier Clara Hartwell finds herself at the center of a death wrapped in ribbon, courtesy, and carefully staged kindness. Spring in Larkspur Cove is supposed to mean painted eggs, donor baskets, pastel shop windows, and the warm elegance of Easter tradition. For Clara, it is also the busiest season at The Golden Chocolate, her beloved shop on Harbor Street.

But when the Showcase turns deadly, Clara begins to suspect that the danger was never in the sweets themselves. It was in the people gathered around them. As whispers spread through town, Clara uncovers a tangle of protective aunts, devoted helpers, wounded lovers, and women whose kindness may conceal something far more possessive.

The victim had a gift for making people feel chosen. The killer had a gift for hiding control inside care. With the help of steady Deputy Ben Mercer, lively assistant Tansy Bell, glamorous florist Viv Doyle, and one thoroughly unrepentant rescue bunny named Marzipan, Clara must untangle a murder driven not by greed, but by the dangerous belief that love gives one person the right to decide for another.