Flour Dust and Foul Play

Some secrets rise slower than others.Charisma Finnegan came to Cypress Bend, Florida, for a quieter life - a stall at the waterfront Harvest Exchange, a growing reputation for sourdough that doesn't need to explain itself, and a six-year-old starter named Vincent VanDough who has opinions about being fed on time.Then a body turns up beside the demonstration table, and the numbers stop adding up.Everett Sorrell, the Exchange's exacting quality inspector, dies on a Sunday morning with one word written beside Charisma's own paperwork: WAIT. No explanation. No warning. Just the last thing a careful man wrote before someone made sure he'd never finish checking his math.The obvious suspect is easy to find - and easy to be wrong about. As Charisma follows flour sacks, reservation slips, and a scoop that shouldn't have been washed, she learns that Cypress Bend's Harvest Exchange runs on more than trust: it runs on promises against grain that doesn't exist yet, fees that multiply the more chaos there is to fix, and a town's worth of people who've each been quietly bending the truth for reasons that have nothing to do with murder.Everyone has a secret. Not everyone is a killer. Charisma has to find the difference before the wrong person pays for someone else's math.Flour Dust and Foul Play is book eight in the Charisma Finnegan Sourdough Mystery series - a fair-play cozy mystery for readers who want their clues real, their bread realer, and their small towns populated by people who feel like neighbors, not suspects in waiting.