Knead Me This: Aunt Gerties Cozy Murder Mysteries Book # 2 (Aunt Gertie's Cozy Murder Mysteries)
By Oscar Tate
A dead man in her locked cellar. A sixty-year-old secret bound with golden thread. And an innocent friend poised to take the blame.
Gertie Marsh expects another orderly morning of fresh coffee and brown-butter shortbread at Buns and Coffee. Instead, she discovers ruthless property consultant Victor Blight lying dead beneath her café—with an engraved brass letter opener beside his body.
The cellar was locked. Gertie had the only key. Yet the police soon find evidence leading them away from the hidden entrance and toward Gertie’s dear friend, Constance.
Their case appears convincing.
Perhaps a little too convincing.
With her sharp-eyed cat Issy and a determined circle of village friends beside her, Gertie begins recording every detail the police overlook. A disturbed coal chute, an altered boundary survey, a torn letter, and two faded strands of golden thread lead her toward a land fraud concealed since 1962.
But exposing the truth could destroy one of Ashwick’s most trusted institutions—and someone has already killed to keep the past buried.
To clear Constance’s name, Gertie must untangle the golden thread connecting an old betrayal to a present-day murder before another life is cut short.
Warm friendships, village secrets, clever clues, fresh baking, and one remarkably observant cat come together in this charming small town cozy mystery.
A dead man in her locked cellar. A sixty-year-old secret bound with golden thread. And an innocent friend poised to take the blame.
Gertie Marsh expects another orderly morning of fresh coffee and brown-butter shortbread at Buns and Coffee. Instead, she discovers ruthless property consultant Victor Blight lying dead beneath her café—with an engraved brass letter opener beside his body.
The cellar was locked. Gertie had the only key. Yet the police soon find evidence leading them away from the hidden entrance and toward Gertie’s dear friend, Constance.
Their case appears convincing.
Perhaps a little too convincing.
With her sharp-eyed cat Issy and a determined circle of village friends beside her, Gertie begins recording every detail the police overlook. A disturbed coal chute, an altered boundary survey, a torn letter, and two faded strands of golden thread lead her toward a land fraud concealed since 1962.
But exposing the truth could destroy one of Ashwick’s most trusted institutions—and someone has already killed to keep the past buried.
To clear Constance’s name, Gertie must untangle the golden thread connecting an old betrayal to a present-day murder before another life is cut short.
Warm friendships, village secrets, clever clues, fresh baking, and one remarkably observant cat come together in this charming small town cozy mystery.