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Deadly to the Core

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by Joyce Tremel
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Perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Julie Anne Lindsey, when Kate Mulligan inherits her great uncle’s fruit orchard, she quickly realizes that apples aren’t the only thing that can have rotten cores.
After losing her husband in a terrible car crash, thirty-five-year-old Kate is left to pick up the pieces of her life alone. Although she has physically recovered, she worries her spirit never will. But when she learns that she has inherited a fruit orchard in a small town just outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from her great uncle Stan, she takes this as an opportunity ripe for the picking. Kate knew immediately what to do with it: open a cider house. Her hopeful plans fall far from the tree when she finds the body of the orchard manager, Carl Randolph, leaving her to figure out who is at the core of this murder.
She had been in correspondence with Carl, who had agreed with her brilliant idea of opening a cider house. But not everyone is so quick to buy what she was selling—Uncle Stan’s lawyer, Robert Larabee, paints a less rosy financial outlook of the orchard’s past, present, and future. 
Kate discovers that Carl had large, unexplained deposits to his bank account and it becomes clear that either he was blackmailing someone, or someone was paying him to keep quiet. Meanwhile, Kate and her neighbors receive offers to buy their property from a mysterious buyer. And there’s more than meets the eye with the neighboring orchard owner, Daniel Martinez, although Kate can’t quite put her finger on if it’s sweet or sour.
Will she be able to pick out the bad apple among the bunch before it’s too late?

  • Creators

  • Series

    Cider House Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 16, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781639105441

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      • ISBN: 9781639105441
      • File size: 1632 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      December 1, 2023
      After a year of recuperating from a serious car accident that killed her husband, Kate Mulligan inherits the family orchard from her uncle Stan. She plans to enhance the orchard, located not far from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with a cidery. Eager to start her new life, she meets with the orchard manager, Carl, who assures her the orchard is doing well. But Uncle Stan's attorney reports that the orchard is losing money and urges Kate to take the generous offer he has in hand for the land. Not long after, she goes to meet Carl to go over plans, but finds him dead. Uneasy about Carl's murder, but staying out of the investigation, she talks with local residents and shopkeepers to learn more about the land purchase offer. Then the attorney goes missing, and turns up dead, his vehicle pushed off the road. Kate then receives a threatening visit; her questions reached into enmities from the town's history. This first in a new cozy series will appeal to fans of Eve Calder, Amanda Flower, and Joanne Fluke.

      COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    • Kirkus

      January 1, 2024
      A recent widow opens a cidery. Still mourning the loss of her husband and healing from the car crash that took Brian's life, Kate Mulligan is ready to turn the page. So when she inherits her great-uncle Stan's orchard, she leaves her home in Pittsburgh for rural Orchardville. Working in a cidery has given her the tools she needs to turn Stan's apples into cider, and watching Brian restore houses has taught her how to frame walls and build a bar and tasting room. But no one's taught her how to solve crimes. So when Carl Randolph, Stan's on-site manager, turns up dead in his cabin, Kate has to learn fast. Her neighbor Daniel Martinez is willing to help with sleuthing as well as carpentry, throwing in an occasional home-cooked breakfast for good measure. Her childhood friend Marguerite Yost comes along for the ride as Kate chases down leads. But it's a map she finds stashed in Carl's freezer that promises to be the most intriguing clue, if Kate can only figure out what it means. Tremel moves slowly and deliberately both in releasing clues and in chronicling Kate's complicated friendship with Daniel, but readers will find her measured pace worth the wait. The solution to the puzzle is surprising, sensible, and satisfying. A refreshing take on the wine bar mystery.

      COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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