Sour Apples
Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford--she's made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up--when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the Congressional campaign for a former hometown...
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Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford--she's made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up--when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the Congressional campaign for a former hometown football hero. But Meg doesn't have time to worry about why Seth seems reluctant to back Lauren's campaign when her neighbor, local dairy farmer Joyce Truesdell, is found dead from an apparent kick to the head from one of her cows. When an autopsy shows that the fatal blow actually came from a weapon, Meg is even more troubled. Popular opinion points to Joyce's husband as the culprit, but Meg can't help wondering if someone wanted the outspoken dairy farmer out of the way--but why? She'll have to find out who had a beef with the victim, before she's the next one to get creamed... INCLUDESÂ DELICIOUSÂ RECIPES
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425251508 (0425251500)
ASIN: 425251500
Publish date: August 7th 2012
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: Orchard Mystery (#6)
I have to say that though I loved the first three novels in this series, this one and the one preceding it, "Bitter Harvest" have not been my favorite of orchard owner Meg Corey. In "Sour Apples" we have Meg back again starting to plan out her orchard for harvest time again. Meg's fiend from Boston,...
This book was really just all right. It's hard for me to really like the characters or care about them and the mystery itself was sort of flat, although it had an interesting premise. The murderer isn't obvious, buy why the murders were committed is, so the 'reveal' just wasn't all the surprising....
Meg Corey has settled in nicely in Granford and her future looks bright with her orchard a success and even expanding. She has made many new friends and her relationship with Seth Chapin is growing as well as her apples.Then Meg's friend Lauren blows into town. She has left the bank and is now runni...