Sour Apples (An Orchard Mystery)

Sour Apples (An Orchard Mystery) by Connolly, Sheila. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780425251508.

Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford--shes made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up--when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the Congressional campaign for a former hometown football hero. But Meg doesnt have time to worry about why Seth seems reluctant to back Laurens campaign when her neighbor, local dairy farmer Joyce Truesdell, is found dead from an apparent kick to the head from one of her cows. When an autopsy shows that the fatal blow actually came from a weapon, Meg is even more troubled. Popular opinion points to Joyces husband as the culprit, but Meg cant help wondering if someone wanted the outspoken dairy farmer out of the way--but why? Shell have to find out who had a beef with the victim, before shes the next one to get creamed... INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES