the Man Who Came Home from Sea: A Cranberry Cove Cozy Mystery (Book 3) — Small-Town Whodunit with Recipes

Every town has a founding story. Cranberry Cove's has a body in it. One hundred years since the lighthouse first went dark, the little town of Cranberry Cove is throwing itself a party - a grand centennial celebrating the founding families who built the place out of salt and grit and Yankee virtue. Baker Hazel Quinn would enjoy it more if she could stop thinking about the watch. A tarnished 1911 pocket watch, pulled from the sea cave beneath the light, engraved to a man named E.P. - who came home from the sea. Nobody in town has ever heard of him. And when the Historical Society's meticulous archivist starts digging into the winter of 1911 on Hazel's behalf, and turns up dead among her own card catalogs two days later, Hazel understands that the town's shining founding story has a shadow in it a hundred years deep: a false light, a lured ship, a fortune raised off the bottom of the sea - and someone who will do murder, again, to keep it buried. With her wedding to a certain kind-eyed deputy just weeks past, Hazel follows a drowned man's watch into the true story of how Cranberry Cove was really made, and toward a killer hiding behind the most respectable story of all: history itself. The third Cranberry Cove Mystery is a warm, twisty, fair-play whodunit about a town's oldest secret and the man the sea finally gave back. No gore. No cliffhanger. A stubborn baker, a hundred-year-old wrong, and a truth that has waited a century to come ashore - plus two of Hazel's cold-weather recipes at the back. New to Cranberry Cove? Each book stands on its own. Already hooked? The light's still on, the coffee's still hot, and this one goes deepest of all.