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Wax, Lies & Apple Pies: A Small-Town Candle Shop Cozy Mystery (The Wick & Quill Cozy Mysteries Book 1)

A poisoned apple treat. A dead property broker. A candle shop owner with a dangerous talent for reading old mail.

Hazel Wren came back to Morrow Creek for a quiet second chance. Her plan was simple: reopen her late aunt’s candle-and-stationery shop, Wick & Quill, sell enough hand-poured candles to survive the Apple Butter Jubilee, and ignore the town gossip about her disgraced grandfather.

Then Mason Decker drops dead behind her festival booth.

Mason was the slick broker trying to buy half of Main Street, which means nearly every vendor had a reason to want him gone. The orchard owner was fighting for her family business. The pie judge had an old grudge. The councilwoman wanted his redevelopment deal buried. And Hazel has the worst connection of all: Mason was carrying packaging from her shop when he died.

The police see a suspicious label.

Hazel sees a clue.

As a former postal inspector, Hazel knows paper has a memory. Labels, envelopes, route marks, and old notices can expose the truth long after people stop talking. But the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that Mason was not just chasing property. He was collecting undelivered letters from Morrow Creek’s closed post office, and one of them could destroy a founding family’s carefully polished legacy.

With her new shop under suspicion, her family name dragged back through the mud, and one opinionated cat named Postmark making himself useful at the worst possible moments, Hazel must catch a killer before the truth is sealed away for good.

Wax, Lies & Apple Pies is the first book in The Wick & Quill Cozy Mysteries, a warm small-town cozy mystery series with a charming candle shop, fair-play clues, light romance, festival secrets, and a sharp amateur sleuth who knows every lie leaves a

Book Review

Great storyline, but over use of the latest trend of giving human emotions to inanimate objects. A little bit is fine, but this was pretty much every sentence.