A Cardamom & Co. Mystery · Book One
A Pinch ofMURDER
A celebrity food critic. A tampered cake. One chance to clear her name.
Asha Iyer is a pastry chef from Madras who, one unlikely October, opened Cardamom & Co. — a spice and pastry shop on the town green of Cedar Hollow, Vermont.
It is the morning of the Maple Festival. By eleven minutes past noon, food critic Margaux Sterling — the woman whose column destroyed the career of Asha’s cousin eleven years ago — is dead on the green with a slice of Asha’s masala chai cake on her plate.
The poison is in the buttercream. The bitter almond extract is the brand Asha stocks. And the sheriff, who has known her for five months, has questions. She has until the snow melts to find out who killed Margaux Sterling — before Cedar Hollow decides it already knows.
Curl up. Put the kettle on. Cedar Hollow is waiting.
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- Series
- The Cardamom & Co. Mysteries, Book One
- Genre
- Cozy mystery · culinary
- Setting
- Cedar Hollow, Vermont · late March to early April 2026
- Length
- 20 chapters · about 50,000 words
- Editions
- Kindle ebook · paperback, 263 pages, 5.5 × 8.5 in
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