A Deadly Reunion: A Small Town Bed and Breakfast Cozy Mystery with Cat (The Buttercup Inn Mysteries Book 2)
By Maisy Marple
When Old Grudges Turn Deadly, Even the Best Scones Can’t Sweeten the Reunion
Welcome back to the Buttercup Inn, where Rosie Pemberton’s second chance at innkeeping takes a deadly turn when the Willowbrook Falls High School Class of 1999 checks in for their twenty-fifth reunion. What should have been a weekend of nostalgia and catching up becomes a nightmare when Jason Pike—former quarterback turned used car salesman—is found strangled with a school scarf among the morning orchids. As Sheriff Whitfield tries to dismiss it as a drunken accident gone wrong, Rosie discovers that Jason came to the reunion armed with more than memories: he’d been collecting his classmates’ darkest secrets for twenty-five years and planned to cash in on their mistakes.
The suspects are as varied as their secrets are damaging. There’s Derek Chen, the tech mogul whose empire is built on stolen code; Melanie Crawford, the perfectionist event planner embezzling from her company; Trina Holloway, the romance novelist who plagiarized her first bestseller from a classmate’s diary; Paula Morrison, the local dentist committing insurance fraud to keep her practice afloat; and Bryan Watts, the class clown whose wife has been having an affair with the victim. As Rosie peels back layers of blackmail, betrayal, and decades-old resentments, she realizes that everyone at this reunion had a reason to want Jason Pike dead—and one of them acted on it.
In this delightfully twisty second installment of the Buttercup Inn Mysteries, Rosie must navigate small-town secrets, family loyalties, and the lingering poison of high school dynamics to unmask a killer before they strike again. With her observant cat Chester by her side and the Class of ’99 unraveling faster than a poorly planned reunion, Rosie discovers that some lessons from high school are worth forgetting—and some classmates are worth killing for. Served with Betty Thornhill’s wit, Harold’s financial sleuthing, and Deputy Jake Morrison’s family crisis, “A Deadly Reunion” proves that while you can’t go home again, you can certainly die trying.
When Old Grudges Turn Deadly, Even the Best Scones Can’t Sweeten the Reunion
Welcome back to the Buttercup Inn, where Rosie Pemberton’s second chance at innkeeping takes a deadly turn when the Willowbrook Falls High School Class of 1999 checks in for their twenty-fifth reunion. What should have been a weekend of nostalgia and catching up becomes a nightmare when Jason Pike—former quarterback turned used car salesman—is found strangled with a school scarf among the morning orchids. As Sheriff Whitfield tries to dismiss it as a drunken accident gone wrong, Rosie discovers that Jason came to the reunion armed with more than memories: he’d been collecting his classmates’ darkest secrets for twenty-five years and planned to cash in on their mistakes.
The suspects are as varied as their secrets are damaging. There’s Derek Chen, the tech mogul whose empire is built on stolen code; Melanie Crawford, the perfectionist event planner embezzling from her company; Trina Holloway, the romance novelist who plagiarized her first bestseller from a classmate’s diary; Paula Morrison, the local dentist committing insurance fraud to keep her practice afloat; and Bryan Watts, the class clown whose wife has been having an affair with the victim. As Rosie peels back layers of blackmail, betrayal, and decades-old resentments, she realizes that everyone at this reunion had a reason to want Jason Pike dead—and one of them acted on it.
In this delightfully twisty second installment of the Buttercup Inn Mysteries, Rosie must navigate small-town secrets, family loyalties, and the lingering poison of high school dynamics to unmask a killer before they strike again. With her observant cat Chester by her side and the Class of ’99 unraveling faster than a poorly planned reunion, Rosie discovers that some lessons from high school are worth forgetting—and some classmates are worth killing for. Served with Betty Thornhill’s wit, Harold’s financial sleuthing, and Deputy Jake Morrison’s family crisis, “A Deadly Reunion” proves that while you can’t go home again, you can certainly die trying.