Hartbridge Heritage Murder: A Cozy Small Town Culinary Mystery (Hartbridge Mysteries)
By M. Scannell Phaneuf, Sophia Blake
In Hartbridge, history isn’t just remembered – it’s carefully managed.
Sarah Thompson is determined to master the perfect pie crust in time for Hartbridge Heritage Week – even if her best friend Karen insists that baking is more art than science.
With a lively new neighbor settling in and the whole town preparing for reenactments, parades, and the annual pie contest, it should be a week of simple, familiar traditions.
But behind the scenes, the Heritage Committee is anything but peaceful.
Budgets are stretched thin. Tempers are running high. And at least a couple of committee members seem to have something to hide.
When respected local historian Dr. Leonard Pike – one of Hartbridge’s own – announces he’s uncovered new evidence about the town’s founding, his timing couldn’t be worse… or more dangerous.
Before he can explain, Pike collapses at the Heritage Week banquet – dead moments after raising a toast.
Now our amateur sleuths find themselves in the middle of a mystery filled with financial secrets, personal grudges, and long-simmering tensions that refuse to stay buried.
But the deeper they dig, the more they realize something doesn’t add up.
Because the real motive may have nothing to do with the present at all.
And in Hartbridge, the past isn’t just history. It’s something people are compelled to protect – or correct..
At any cost.
In Hartbridge, history isn’t just remembered – it’s carefully managed.
Sarah Thompson is determined to master the perfect pie crust in time for Hartbridge Heritage Week – even if her best friend Karen insists that baking is more art than science.
With a lively new neighbor settling in and the whole town preparing for reenactments, parades, and the annual pie contest, it should be a week of simple, familiar traditions.
But behind the scenes, the Heritage Committee is anything but peaceful.
Budgets are stretched thin. Tempers are running high. And at least a couple of committee members seem to have something to hide.
When respected local historian Dr. Leonard Pike – one of Hartbridge’s own – announces he’s uncovered new evidence about the town’s founding, his timing couldn’t be worse… or more dangerous.
Before he can explain, Pike collapses at the Heritage Week banquet – dead moments after raising a toast.
Now our amateur sleuths find themselves in the middle of a mystery filled with financial secrets, personal grudges, and long-simmering tensions that refuse to stay buried.
But the deeper they dig, the more they realize something doesn’t add up.
Because the real motive may have nothing to do with the present at all.
And in Hartbridge, the past isn’t just history. It’s something people are compelled to protect – or correct..
At any cost.