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The Apple Fritter Alibi: A Large Print Cozy Culinary Mystery
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 3 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Ciderbend Harbor, Michigan, apple fritters are more than a festival treat. They are the town's pride, its tourist draw, and the golden symbol of how an old Lake Michigan fishing village reinvented itself after the working boats disappeared.
For Maren Bracklow, owner of Ciderbend Fritters, the annual Fall Apple Festival should be her biggest weekend of the year. Her fryer never cools, her coffee urns never rest, and the Apple Fritter Crown could bring the kind of attention that keeps her small shop open long after the tourists leave.
Then Celia Bellharrow, the festival historian and keeper of Ciderbend's polished public story, is found dead near the old cider press during the private judging round.
A Ciderbend Fritters box, a shifted contest card, and a smear of cider glaze pull Maren's shop into the scandal. Rumors spread through town faster than coffee can pour. If people believe Celia died because of festival food, Maren could lose her reputation, her business, and the family recipe she has fought to protect.
But Maren knows fritters.
She knows the cut of her apples, the shine of her cider glaze, the fold of her boxes, and the timing of every batch that leaves her counter. The evidence near Celia looks convincing to everyone else, but to Maren, something about it is wrong.
As she follows the clues through orchard rivalries, tourism money, art-gallery secrets, and old fishing-family wounds, Maren uncovers a buried truth: Ciderbend Harbor's famous apple fritter legend may not belong to the families who have been profiting from it for decades.
Now Maren must clear her shop, protect the festival, and prove that the sweetest stories can hide the bitterest secrets.
The Apple Fritter Alibi is a Large Print Cozy Culinary Mystery filled with warm small-town atmosphere, Lake Michigan charm, festival gossip, food-rich clues, and a clever baker-sleuth who knows that every lie leaves crumbs.
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