An early, deep snow has gifted Fishers’ Harbor, Wisconsin, with a perfect setting for the holiday celebration. Unfortunately removing snow from Main Street for the parade reveals the dead tax assessor with a knife in him–containing Grandpa Gil’s fingerprints. It’s clearly a setup and one that keeps Ava and Grandpa Gil under the watchful eyes of Sheriff Tollefson. Who wants Grandpa to miss playing Santa Claus in the Christmas parade and why? Who’s being naughty instead of nice? Grandpa doesn’t help his case with talk of leaving town for good–words that chill Ava worse than the weather. She can’t imagine life without Grandpa’s warm hugs and laughter. When vandals strike…
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A taste of trouble is in the air when a group of well-heeled, fudge-loving women descend on Ava Oosterling’s newly acquired and lovingly refurbished bed & breakfast inn for a chocolate lovers’ getaway. When one of the women turns up dead–and Ava’s grandfather is a prime suspect–Ava plunges into the thick of a murder case stickier than her candy store’s line of Fairy Tale fudge flavors and the chocolate facials the women adore at the local spa. It’s springtime and the start of the tourist season in Fishers’ Harbor, Wisconsin. Ava has opened the Blue Heron Inn with the help of handsome construction worker Dillon Rivers. Unfortunately, Dillon’s mother–Ava’s ex-mother-in-law–is…
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Christine DeSmet is an award-winning fiction writer and professional screenwriter. She is the author of the bestselling Fudge Shop Mystery Series and the popular novella series called Mischief in Moonstone. She is a Distinguished Faculty Associate in Writing at University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches novel writing and screenwriting and directs the annual summer Write-by-the-Lake Writer’s Workshop & Retreat. Through her master classes she has seen many of her adult students become published. She is also a professional writing coach in the UW-Madison Writers’ Institute conference’s Pathway to Publication program. Christine is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Wisconsin Writers Association, Wisconsin Screenwriters Association, and other…
