Pumpkin Pie Payback (Sunny Shores Mysteries Book 7)
By Cassie Rivers
It’s Thanksgiving in Sunny Shores. A community dinner. Forty-eight pumpkin pies. One retired judge who won’t live to see dessert.
Kara Summers has catered the biggest order of her life — every pie on every table at the town’s first-ever community Thanksgiving dinner at City Hall. Her boyfriend Ty is helping. Her best friend Star is home from college. Her mother has texted three times about the timing. It should be the warmest week of her year.
Then retired Judge Eleanor Vance sends Kara a cryptic text two days before the dinner. We need to speak. A matter of some urgency.
By the time Kara returns the call, it’s too late.
Judge Vance signed off on every property transaction in Sunny Shores for twenty years. She had secrets. She had regrets. And she had finally decided to talk — to the right people, about the right things, in a town that was not ready to hear them.
Someone made sure she never got the chance.
With state investigators circling, with Ty’s accounting firm hiding something no audit can prove, and with a man Kara has spent two books trying to name finally close enough to touch, the Thanksgiving dinner at Sunny Shores City Hall is about to become the last meal of a long, quiet conspiracy.
And this time, Kara is going to finish what her father started.
Pumpkin Pie Payback is Book 7 in the Sunny Shores Mysteries series — the finale of the three-book arc that began in Sweet Potato Sabotage and continued in Pecan Pie Predicament. A cozy Gulf Coast mystery with a food-truck amateur sleuth, an accountant with his heart in the right place, a college girl who refuses to grow up, and a mayor with a café lease that won’t wait forever.
Perfect for fans of:
- Cozy mystery series with long-running arcs that pay off
- Thanksgiving and holiday-set cozies
- Amateur sleuths with day jobs
- Small-town Gulf Coast Florida settings
- Mysteries where the cat already knows who did it
It’s Thanksgiving in Sunny Shores. A community dinner. Forty-eight pumpkin pies. One retired judge who won’t live to see dessert.
Kara Summers has catered the biggest order of her life — every pie on every table at the town’s first-ever community Thanksgiving dinner at City Hall. Her boyfriend Ty is helping. Her best friend Star is home from college. Her mother has texted three times about the timing. It should be the warmest week of her year.
Then retired Judge Eleanor Vance sends Kara a cryptic text two days before the dinner. We need to speak. A matter of some urgency.
By the time Kara returns the call, it’s too late.
Judge Vance signed off on every property transaction in Sunny Shores for twenty years. She had secrets. She had regrets. And she had finally decided to talk — to the right people, about the right things, in a town that was not ready to hear them.
Someone made sure she never got the chance.
With state investigators circling, with Ty’s accounting firm hiding something no audit can prove, and with a man Kara has spent two books trying to name finally close enough to touch, the Thanksgiving dinner at Sunny Shores City Hall is about to become the last meal of a long, quiet conspiracy.
And this time, Kara is going to finish what her father started.
Pumpkin Pie Payback is Book 7 in the Sunny Shores Mysteries series — the finale of the three-book arc that began in Sweet Potato Sabotage and continued in Pecan Pie Predicament. A cozy Gulf Coast mystery with a food-truck amateur sleuth, an accountant with his heart in the right place, a college girl who refuses to grow up, and a mayor with a café lease that won’t wait forever.
Perfect for fans of:
- Cozy mystery series with long-running arcs that pay off
- Thanksgiving and holiday-set cozies
- Amateur sleuths with day jobs
- Small-town Gulf Coast Florida settings
- Mysteries where the cat already knows who did it