Espresso Yourself: A Tiny House Coffee Mystery Series with Dog
By Fiona Bramble, Maisy Marple
One Shot, Two Shots, Someone Drops Dead… The Perfect Murder Requires the Perfect Extraction
Lily Bennett’s life was percolating along perfectly—her expanded Tiny Beans Coffee Shop is thriving, her relationship with Sam Cooper is warming nicely, and Willow Springs’ first-ever Arts Festival promises to be her biggest business opportunity yet. With her faithful Australian Shepherd, Bean, at her side, what could possibly go wrong?
Everything, as it turns out.
When renowned sculptor Marcus Reed is found floating face-down in the festival’s ornamental pond, Lily’s coffee cart becomes the perfect vantage point to observe the creative temperaments and artistic tensions bubbling beneath the surface of the seemingly genteel event.
As evidence points to traditional woodcarver Abigail Foster, Lily’s instincts—and Bean’s uncanny judge of character—tell her the police are brewing up the wrong suspect. But the mystery only darkens when Lily discovers a flash drive hidden in her coffee beans containing evidence of a sophisticated art forgery operation with international connections.
With her inner circle of friends—including librarian Julia Washington, carpenter Sam Cooper, and Bean the four-legged art critic—Lily follows a trail of clues through the festival. She’ll need to extract the truth from a cast of colorful characters: the elegant arts patron with a complicated past, the installation artist whose work may be hiding more than artistic meaning, and the charming art dealer whose perfect smile doesn’t quite reach his eyes.
When threatening messages appear at Lily’s tiny house and suspicious activities surround the festival displays, it becomes clear that someone will go to deadly lengths to keep their forgeries from being exposed. Can Lily separate the genuine from the fake before the killer makes her the next target?
One Shot, Two Shots, Someone Drops Dead… The Perfect Murder Requires the Perfect Extraction
Lily Bennett’s life was percolating along perfectly—her expanded Tiny Beans Coffee Shop is thriving, her relationship with Sam Cooper is warming nicely, and Willow Springs’ first-ever Arts Festival promises to be her biggest business opportunity yet. With her faithful Australian Shepherd, Bean, at her side, what could possibly go wrong?
Everything, as it turns out.
When renowned sculptor Marcus Reed is found floating face-down in the festival’s ornamental pond, Lily’s coffee cart becomes the perfect vantage point to observe the creative temperaments and artistic tensions bubbling beneath the surface of the seemingly genteel event.
As evidence points to traditional woodcarver Abigail Foster, Lily’s instincts—and Bean’s uncanny judge of character—tell her the police are brewing up the wrong suspect. But the mystery only darkens when Lily discovers a flash drive hidden in her coffee beans containing evidence of a sophisticated art forgery operation with international connections.
With her inner circle of friends—including librarian Julia Washington, carpenter Sam Cooper, and Bean the four-legged art critic—Lily follows a trail of clues through the festival. She’ll need to extract the truth from a cast of colorful characters: the elegant arts patron with a complicated past, the installation artist whose work may be hiding more than artistic meaning, and the charming art dealer whose perfect smile doesn’t quite reach his eyes.
When threatening messages appear at Lily’s tiny house and suspicious activities surround the festival displays, it becomes clear that someone will go to deadly lengths to keep their forgeries from being exposed. Can Lily separate the genuine from the fake before the killer makes her the next target?