March on Barton Farm can only mean one thing: maple sugar season. To combat the winter slump, resilient director Kelsey Cambridge organizes a Maple Sugar Festival, complete with school visits, pancake breakfasts, and tree tapping classes. Kelsey hires curmudgeonly maple sugar expert Dr. Conrad Beeson to teach the classes, despite misgivings over his unpleasant demeanor. It's a decision she ends up regretting when, before the first tree can be tapped for sap, Dr. Beeson turns up dead.
The maple sugar expert's death threatens to shut down not only the Maple Sugar Festival, but also Barton Farm itself. Kelsey must solve Dr. Beeson's murder to escape the increasingly sticky situation.
Amanda Flower has crafted another wonderful tale, this time it is the end of Winter, going into Spring and Barton Farm is showcasing the making of Maple syrup, including a tree tapping class. Sadly Kelsey Cambridge's original pick to teach this has had to pull out and so Dr Beeson has stepped in, and whilst Kelsey is glad that she only has to endure the infuriating man for two or three days she is still stunned when he winds up dead, and one of the farm workers is tapped as the killer.
Now Kelsey has to navigate a tale that has more twists and turns than the hand drill used to open the maple trees for tapping, hopefully she can help solve the crime, the jobs/liberty of not one but two of her workers - and at the same time figure out what her ex and his new fiancee are planning - no pressure then!
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