"BERRIED SECRETS is a well-plotted cozy mystery"
Berried Secrets
By: Peg Cochran
Genres: Mystery Cozy
Posted: September 2, 2015
Jeff was injured while overseas and the farm is losing money. Monica knows that Sam Culbert, mayor and landowner, had been managing the farm for Jeff. He was embezzling money, leaving the farm nearly bankrupt.
When Sam is discovered dead near one of the bogs, Jeff becomes the most likely suspect. Monica isn't happy with the job the police are doing so she sets out to discover the identity of the killer.
As Monica investigates, it becomes clear that there are many people who wanted Sam dead. He had rigged the election to become mayor. Sam collected secrets and used them to his advantage.
With a nearly ready to deliver detective and a small town that holds its secrets, Monica must keep the farm viable and prevent a terrible miscarriage of justice.
Peg Cochran starts a new series with BERRIED SECRETS. Set on a cranberry farm in western Michigan, BERRIED SECRETS is a well-plotted cozy mystery that kept my interest all the way through. With some fascinating secondary characters, and the skill Ms. Cochran has in hiding the identity of the killer until the last, it was a series that I plan to continue reading.
Book Summary
It’s cranberry picking time—in an all-new mystery
series
from the national bestselling author of the Gourmet De-
Lite
Mysteries…
When Monica Albertson comes to
Cranberry Cove—a charming town on the eastern shore of
Lake
Michigan—to help her half-brother Jeff on his cranberry
farm, the last thing she expects to harvest is a dead
body.
It seems that Sam Culbert, who ran the farm
while Jeff was deployed overseas, had some juicy secrets
that soon prove fatal, and Jeff is ripe for the picking
as a
prime suspect. Forming an uneasy alliance with her
high-maintenance stepmother, Monica has her hands full
trying to save the farm while searching for a killer.
Culbert made plenty of enemies in the quaint small town…
but
which one was desperate enough to kill?
Read an Excerpt
by: Peg Cochran
Berkley Prime Crime
August 1, 2015
On Sale: August 4, 2015
Featuring: Monica Albertson
304 pages
ISBN: 0425274500
EAN: 9780425274507
Kindle: B00QH831Y6
Paperback / e-Book