Krissy Hancock's bookstore-café in Pine Hills, Ohio, is teaming up
with the local library for a seasonal celebration, but someone is
spiking the refreshments--with fatal results...
With autumn in full swing and Thanksgiving on the way, Krissy's
supplying cider and her staff is manning the apple-bobbing booth at a
town event. But then a patron dunks his head in--and doesn't come back
up.
It soon becomes clear that Krissy's brew wasn't to blame. But with her
policeman boyfriend looking to make detective, she can't help being
drawn into the investigation. The victim was notorious for harassing not
only her own bookstore but the library and the school for promoting
supposedly scandalous literature--before someone censored him
permanently. Now, Krissy will have to check out a stack of suspects to
find a killer who's rotten to the core...