A Harvest of Lies: A Harbor Light Inn Cozy Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798183734966)

The summer people are gone, the harvest fair is up, and for one bright weekend Gull Harbor belongs to itself again. Then Marcus Thorne - a smooth antiques dealer who came to pick a dead recluse's house clean - turns up dead in the frost, and the whole town is quietly, shamefully relieved.

Everyone agrees it was his heart. Innkeeper and chef Nora Marsh knows better. The cider in the dead man's cup wasn't the town's honest brew - it was made by a hand she can almost read, dressed to pass for a neighbor's kindness on a cold night.

As Nora pulls the thread, it leads somewhere no one will follow: to a man who vanished thirty years ago and was never missed, to an old woman who kept his secret to her grave - and to the gentlest soul in town, the one who mends every broken thing and asks for nothing in return.

To prove what she fears, Nora will have to do the hardest thing a small town ever asks: stop telling itself the comfortable story, and look at the kindest person in it.

A snowbound New England cozy mystery with a slow-burn romance, a cast you'll want to move in with, and recipes in the back. No gore, no on-page violence - just one quiet, devastating truth coming up out of the cold.