'Til Dirt Do Us Part (Local Foods Mystery)

The produce is local--and so is the crime--when long-simmering tensions lead to murder following a festive dinner on Cam Flaherty's farm. It'll take a sleuth who knows the lay of the land to catch this killer. But no one ever said Cam wasn't willing to get her hands dirty. . .

Autumn has descended on Westbury, Massachusetts, but the mood at the Farm-to-Table Dinner in Cam's newly built barn is unseasonably chilly. Local entrepreneur Irene Burr made a lot of enemies with her plan to buy Westbury's Old Town Hall and replace it with a textile museum--enough enemies to fill out a list of suspects when the wealthy widow turns up dead in a neighboring farm.

Even an amateur detective like Cam can figure out that one of the resident locavores went loco--at least temporarily--and settled a score with Irene. But which one? With the Fall harvest upon her, Cam must sift through a bushelful of possible killers that includes Irene's estranged stepson, her disgruntled auto mechanic, and a fellow CSA subscriber who seems suspiciously happy to have the dead woman out of the way.

The closer she gets to weeding out the culprit, the more Cam feels like someone is out to cut her harvest short. But to keep her own body out of the compost pile, she'll have to wrap this case up quickly.

Praise For A Tine To Live, A Tine To Die

Absorbing. . .Builds to an exciting climax. --Publishers Weekly

A fresh new voice on the cozy mystery scene, Edith Maxwell serves up a tasty plot and a bumper crop of colorful characters in her debut novel,A Tine to Live,A Tine to Die. Fans of Sheila Connolly andDorothy St. Jameswill be happy to discover a smart,newsleuth who isn't afraid to get her hands dirty. --Rosemary Harris, Anthony and Agatha Award-nominated author of Pushing Up Daisies

Another topically relevant cozy debut. --Library Journal

A sparkling read. It's a down on the farm murder mystery with a bumper crop of locally grown suspects and red herrings. --Reed Farrel Coleman, three-time Shamus Award-winning author of Gun Church

With an insider's look at organic farming and a loyal, persistent heroine, Maxwell offers a series that cozy mystery fans will root for. --Lucy Burdette, author of Death in Four Courses