Murder & Macarons Series
When a food blogger's scathing review turns deadly, retired librarian Clara Bloom must prove that revenge is a dish best served with justice.
Clara Bloom thought the biggest challenge in running The Secret Garden Tea & Treats would be perfecting her lavender macarons. She never imagined she'd be serving them to Victoria Sterling, the notorious food blogger whose venomous reviews have destroyed restaurants across New England. When Victoria takes one bite of Clara's signature pastries and collapses from poisoning, the quaint town of Ivywood Hollow is turned upside down.
With her best friend Mavis arrested as the prime suspect and her beloved tea room sealed as a crime scene, Clara refuses to let an innocent woman take the fall. Armed with four decades of mystery novel expertise and assisted by Inspector Whiskers, her unnaturally intuitive Maine Coon cat, Clara begins her own investigation into Victoria's long list of enemies.
From a heartbroken young pastry chef to a bakery owner whose business was ruined by Victoria's cruel pen, everyone in town had motive for murder. But as Clara digs deeper into the case, she discovers that the truth is more twisted than any Agatha Christie plot. The killer has been planning this crime for months, using knowledge gleaned from the very mystery novels Clara loves to create the perfect poison.
In this charming cozy mystery, Clara Bloom learns that solving murders is a lot like baking the perfect macaron: it's all about precision, patience, and knowing exactly when something has gone terribly wrong.
