The Baking Contest Murder

Harold Pemberton had a talent for making enemies. The successful antique dealer seemed to take pleasure in crushing dreams and destroying hopes. He harassed his business partner Meredith Blackwell, callously dismissed elderly Mrs. Goldstein's treasured family heirloom as worthless, and publicly humiliated fifteen-year-old Billy Davis at the county fair baking contest. Now Harold is dead. When his body is discovered under suspicious circumstances, Detective Audrey Murphy finds no shortage of suspects. Victoria becomes the prime target of the investigation—a woman scorned who had both means and opportunity. But in a town where Harold's cruelty touched so many lives, the list of potential killers keeps growing. Who finally decided Harold had gone too far? With everyone from business partners to elderly widows to protective parents harboring grudges against the dead man, finding the killer may be less about discovering who wanted Harold dead—and more about determining who actually had the courage to do something about it. A gripping mystery where every victim had motive, and justice comes in the most unexpected form.