A Pinch of Murder

At Capers Point's biggest food festival, murder is the one thing nobody ordered.

When a notoriously sharp-tongued food judge is found dead inside a padlocked festival tent, a mysterious spice sampler points suspicion toward a local vendor-and Marianne Geralt's beloved shop, Sage and Spice.

Marianne has only just gotten her business back on its feet. The last thing she needs is another murder scandal stirring up trouble in her charming Maine town.

Fortunately, she has help from two rather unusual investigators: Oregano, her telepathic, 150-year-old Maine Coon with a talent for terrible puns, and Atticus Sawyer, a meticulous ghost detective who can't leave the spice shop.

As Marianne digs deeper, she discovers suspicious scorecards, questionable promises, and an alibi that might not be an alibi at all. Someone has been cooking up more than festival prizes, and unless Marianne can untangle the clues, an innocent person could take the blame.

A Pinch of Murder is Book Two in the Secrets and Spices series, a humorous paranormal cozy mystery filled with small-town secrets, feline sass, ghostly sleuthing, and murder with a dash of spice.