She came to Blackberry Bay to start over. The village had other plans.
Beatrice Honeywell has left London with a broken engagement, a battered heart, and a slightly terrifying inheritance: The Cinnamon Cottage, the beloved seaside bakery her great-aunt Maud ran for forty years in the crooked, colourful, deeply gossipy village of Blackberry Bay. Bea's plan is simple: open the bakery, learn the recipes, make a quiet life by the sea, and stop thinking about Daniel and his other toothbrush.
What she did not plan for: a marmalade cat who appears to have adopted the premises, a new best friend who knows absolutely everything about everyone, a suspiciously charming detective inspector with grey eyes who keeps turning up at the wrong moments, and a dead man on the cobbles outside her bakery on the busiest day of the year.
When Marcus Blackwood — the developer who'd been threatening to bulldoze Blackberry Bay's beloved seafront — is found dead with a foxglove in his lapel and a takeaway coffee from The Cinnamon Cottage in his hand, Bea finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation she very much did not ask for. The village has secrets. The suspects are plentiful. And someone in Blackberry Bay has been waiting thirty years for justice — the kind the law never delivered.
A Sprinkle of Suspicion is the first book in The Cinnamon Cottage Mysteries — a warm, funny, deeply satisfying British cozy mystery set in a seaside village full of lovable characters, a bakery cat with opinions, genuine heart, and recipes in the back.
Includes two of Aunt Maud's actual recipes: cinnamon whirls and lemon drizzle cake, with no poison guaranteed.
The bread is warm. The welcome is warmer. And the mysteries have a way of finding you.
