Edition Specifications

Author:

Fiona Dunmore

Series:

Briar Harbor Mystery (Book 1)

Print Length:

284 Pages · Cream Antique

Format:

Trade Paperback (5.5" × 8.5")

Fair-Play:

100% Knox-Compliant

Includes Maisie's authentic scratch recipe for Dutch Apple Cardamom Pie with Browned Butter Glaze printed on the back flyleaf.

Flour on the apron. Blood on the cedar pavilion.

Maisie Finch didn't move from Boston to the rocky shores of Briar Harbor to become a detective. She moved to escape ninety-hour line cook shifts and inherit her late grandfather’s cedar cottage on Harbor Street. With her cynical tuxedo cat Barnaby asleep on the flour bins, The Salty Whisk was supposed to be a haven of cardamom buns, wild blueberry tarts, and peaceful sea mist.

Then Julian Vance, the ruthless developer threatening to bulldoze the working harbor for luxury condos, collapses face-first into his morning slice of Dutch Apple Cardamom Pie. The medical examiner rules the death an intentional cyanide poisoning, and Deputy Chief Montgomery finds Maisie's bakery manager standing over the scene with an empty syrup bottle.

With her best friend accused and her bakery red-tagged by the county, Maisie has forty-eight hours to apply the ruthless discipline of classical French culinary technique to a web of harbor politics, heirloom orchard swindles, and generational Maine grudges.