The Honey Hollow Mysteries · Book 3 · A Small Town Vermont Bakery Cozy Mystery

Recipe No. 3 · Coming soon

Crème Brûlée and Cold Cases

When a stranger who came to clear her father’s name turns up dead at the bottom of the coffee shop’s cellar stairs the week of Christmas, a Vermont pastry chef has to prove it was no accident before her town buries the truth for another sixty years.

Ingredients

  • 1 stranger, come to clear her father’s name
  • Maple crème brûlée, three days before Christmas
  • The Hollow Bean’s cellar stairs
  • A truth the town has kept for sixty years

Method

Catherine Farrow tasted Clem Ainsworth’s maple crème brûlée three days before Christmas and promised to come back at dawn with a secret about Clem’s grandfather. By morning, she was dead at the bottom of the Hollow Bean’s cellar stairs.

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Cover of Crème Brûlée and Cold Cases by Ruthie Kent: a gray cat beside a crème brûlée and old papers, a snowy Christmas village behind the window

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