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Simple Assault & Buttery
2025
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Jillian Green digs up dirt on a mining magnate’s murder at a swanky family reunion. When Jillian Green and The Chocolate Shoppe Bakery are hired by fashionable, ultra-rich Annette Hollingsworth to cater a family reunion, Jillian expects the classy affair to go off without a hitch. But Annette’s relatives, the Tiptons, are as earthy and unrefined as the coal mined at their family-owned mine in the hills of eastern Kentucky. The evening moves from mundane to horrifying when Jillian finds Duncan Tipton, the unpleasant president of the mining operation, murdered in the Hollingsworths’ home. Annette begs Jillian to get involved in the investigation, but Deputy Gooder Jones, smarting from town gossip that he can’t do his job without Jillian’s help, insists that she stay away from the case. When another Tipton turns up dead, Jillian begins to feel raked over the coals. Can Jillian find the mother lode, or will she end up the sacrificial canary of Tipton Coal? This clever whodunit from Annie’s Chocolate Shoppe Mysteries series is a must-read for fans of cozy mysteries, baking, female friendships, and light romance.

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