The Toast Trap: A Friends-To-Suspects Cozy Mystery

About The Toast Trap: A Friends-To-Suspects Cozy Mystery

A toast. A single sip. And suddenly one of Hazel Hart’s friends is on the floor.

Before the candles burn down, Candlewick Cove is already polishing the story. Allergy. Accident.

Tragedy. Convenient, tidy, finished. Hazel runs Hart House, a holiday shop built on tradition and trust.

She also knows the truth about small towns: people don’t hide secrets in the dark. They hide them under smiles, casseroles, and “helpful” hands that clear the glass before anyone thinks to look. This time the danger sits at Hazel’s own table.

Someone controls the timing. Someone controls the room. Someone wants Hazel isolated, doubting her instincts, doubting her people, doubting herself.

Detective Dean Price tells her to step back. He’s seen what cases like this do to decent people. But if Hazel lets go, someone else writes the ending.

A clean, suspenseful cozy mystery with winter atmosphere and small-town pressure, no gore, no brutality. Because when your friends become your suspects… who do you dare to believe?