by Maddie Day
Part of Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery
First published 2021
Mac Almeida runs a bicycle shop in Westham, Massachusetts, but her quiet Cape Cod life turns deadly when she visits her friend Tulia Peters at the Lobstah Shack. Someone has murdered Annette DiCicero in the restaurant's walk-in freezer, stabbing her with a custom lobster pick. The police focus on Tulia after witnesses report her public fight with Annette. Mac refuses to let her friend take the blame. She rallies the Cozy Capers Book Group to dig into Annette's complicated past. The victim's volatile husband emerges as a suspect, along with his questionable business partner. Two women connected to Annette's former life as Miss New Bedford also harbor secrets worth killing for. Mac pushes deeper into their private affairs, but the suspects grow hostile as she gets closer to the truth. She must solve the case before the real killer strikes again.
Genres: american-fiction, mystery, crime, contemporary, cozy-mystery, amateur-sleuth
Vibes: amateur-detective, community-driven, cozy, engaging, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, community-investigation, found-family, friend-in-danger
Setting: Westham, Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Lobstah Shack, New Bedford
Period: contemporary
391 pages · Paperback · Thorndike Press
Content warnings: murder, violence