Three weeks before Thanksgiving, bookshop owner Addie Greyborne
already has a full plate--and a killer on her case...
Addie's determined to turn a seemingly ordinary November in coastal
Greyborne Harbor into one for the books. The windows of her shop display
carefully curated works by American writers, including a rare selection
of traditional holiday recipes from the influential 19th-century
publication Godey's Ladies Magazine. And then there's the town's Civil
War-era themed cooking and baking competition, with a hefty cash prize
and free publicity going to the winning dish...
But when she finds her cousin's boyfriend murdered, a stunned Addie
reluctantly realizes she may be the only person who can blow the cover
off a grisly crime. With so many unanswered questions surrounding the
victim's death, Addie must figure out the strange connection between a
mysterious vintage briefcase, the disappearance of a first edition copy
of Sarah Josepha Hale's famous nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb,"
and a dangerously well-read culprit...