B. B. Haywood

Candy Holliday and her father run a small blueberry farm and sell assorted blueberry products in Cape Willington, ME. In the first chapter a local celebrity falls from a cliff to his death. Then right after the Blueberry festival another death occurs. When a friend is accused of the crime Candy vows to find out who really did it and free her friend. This story is full of blueberry facts and has recipes at the end. There are several possible suspects with secrets to hide. Good start to a cozy series.… (more)

I tried to pick this one up from my great teetering pile o' mysteries some time ago, but I had literally just put down a book by an author I really like and am really familiar with, and Town in a Blueberry Jam suffered by being started so hot on the heels of the other book. I was disappointed with it, so I put it back in the pile. I just took it out again a few days ago wanting something a bit different, and this time it grabbed me and wouldn't let go! Pages and pages flew by as I got caught up in the place, the characters, and the multi-layered story! So I suppose the lesson I learned was to give myself a little bit of breathing space between books, so the second book doesn't suffer. I am really looking forward to Town in a Lobster Stew now!… (more)

Town In A Maple Madness is the 8th book in the A Candy Holliday Mystery series.

Another exciting story featuring Candy and her dad, Doc, and their friends in Cape Willington, Maine.

Spring is near and sap is running and the residents of Cape Willington are looking forward to the Maple Madness Weekend and the opening of a renovated warehouse that will be used as a community center. But as the crowd is beginning to assemble for the opening ceremonies the crowd needs to be dispersed as the body of a local landscaper, Mick Rilke, has just been pulled out of the river close by. Just the day before, Hutch Milbright informed Candy that her neighbor and friend, Neil Crawford has been stealing sap from his trees. Candy begins to look at Milbright’s trees and at Crawford’s property and begins to think that someone had been tapping his trees, but she is sure that it wasn’t Crawford. As she is following recent tire tracks she soon believes that the two events might in some way be related. But she needs to find out soon before another attempt is made on her life.

Another well- written story from B. B. Haywood with most all of regularcharacter coming back once again.

Delicious recipes are also included with the book.

Looking forward to the next book in the series.… (more)