Cookies, Crumbs and Crime: a Small Town Cozy Mystery Blackstone Mystery Series Book

In the charming town of Brentwood Falls, books and baked goods are a recipe for murder.Lucy Blackstone loves three things: her job as town librarian, her collection of mystery novels, and the melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies from Sweet Delight Bakery. But when beloved baker Winnie Baxter is found dead beside a shattered cookie jar, Lucy’s passion for puzzles pulls her into a real-life whodunit.Everyone loved Winnie’s cookies—but someone wanted her secret recipe badly enough to kill for it. Was it her assistant Sadie, set to inherit the bakery? Her estranged sister Marnie, suddenly back in town with claims to the business? Or Earl Lattimore, whose competing café was losing customers to Winnie’s delectable treats?As Lucy investigates, she uncovers a recipe laced with blackmail, stolen formulas, and decades-old grudges. With the skeptical Sheriff Hank Pritchard reluctantly accepting her help, Lucy must sift through a town full of suspects before the killer strikes again.Armed with her librarian’s research skills and an insatiable curiosity, Lucy proves that in Brentwood Falls, the most dangerous ingredients aren’t found in the kitchen—they’re the secrets people will do anything to keep hidden.Cookies, Crumbs, and Crime is the first deliciously entertaining Lucy Blackstone Mystery, perfect for fans of culinary cozies and book-loving sleuths. Pull up a chair, pour a cup of tea, and satisfy your craving for a small-town mystery where the stakes are sweet but the motives are deadly.