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Este March runs the family-owned Lucky Pie Diner on Split Pine Island in Northern Michigan. The pies at Lucky Pie aren’t just good, they’re magical, with a family recipe that grants certain customers their greatest hopes and dreams when they eat the pie. The remote island is closed to outsiders over the winter months, but on the last day of the season, the unpopular new produce vendor, Jeff, turns up dead on his boat, and Split Pine Island’s peace goes up in smoke.
Tom Cunningham, the local sheriff, casts suspicion onto Este, who may have been the last person to see Jeff alive. Not to mention several people witnessed her getting into an argument with the rude vendor in some of his final hours. Este decides to clear her name and her diner’s reputation by launching her own investigation, which means she must turn suspicion on her friends and neighbors, because only a local could have murdered the victim.
As Este investigates, she uncovers a deeper web of secrets, finding that many of the locals had reason to either frame her, or kill the victim. The clock is ticking to figure out the killer, and the clues in the case are flakier than an apple pie. Este will have to uncover the killer before her future crumbles.
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- ISBN: 9781639106264
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- ISBN: 9781639106264
- File size: 975 KB
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December 15, 2023
Convinced that an island outsider is up to no good, a pie shop owner encourages police to investigate him, at the risk of seeming like a suspect herself. Este March is getting ready for the off-season, when Split Pine Island in northern Michigan shuts down to everyone but locals as November ushers in cold weather. That means selling tourists their last meals from her family-owned Lucky Pie Diner, famed for its pies, some of which bring the eater good luck through a magical recipe. So tourists naturally want to get one last chance at luck before next summer rolls around. Este is distracted from her preparations for the final days of the season when her latest produce order is tripped up in transit. Instead of the reliable Denny McAvoy delivering her latest order from Evergreen Produce, some new guy named Jeff Kelly shows up with produce at double the price and half the value. And no strawberries! Este tries to keep it positive, but when new guy Jeff is found dead on a boat, she imagines that she might not be the only one he rubbed the wrong way. She's certain that non-local Mick Gorley has something to do with Jeff's demise. After all, Mick and daughter Jersey have managed to skirt the island's needlessly complex housing laws, so who knows what other round-the-back schemes they may be working? Este tries to convince local sheriff Tom Cunningham of Mick's guilt, but her interest in the case makes her look more like a suspect than a concerned citizen. Maybe she should eat a piece of her own lucky pie before she's put on the hook for Jeff's murder. A sweet treat for mystery mavens looking for something not too challenging.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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