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Honey-Baked Homicide
Review by Amber Marr
Honey-Baked Homicide is the third book in Gayle
Leeson's Down South Café Mystery Series. Amy
Flowers' business is doing well and she's agreed to a
consignment deal to sell honey for Stuart Landon, a
local beekeeper. Her customers are excited to have local
honey on the menu and available for purchase at the
counter. When Stuart's dead body is found in his truck
by Amy one morning, she knows she has to figure out
what happened. Why was he killed and what is the
purpose of parking him in front of the cafe?
Amy finds out that Stuart Landon is not only a keeper of
bees but a keeper of secrets, as well. He isn't who the
town thinks he is, which expands the murder
investigation outside of Winter Garden. There are also
numerous suspects in town, too. There are property
disputes, issues with pesticides, and right in the middle
of everything comes a surveyor looking for natural gas
deposits. As secrets get revealed, Amy knows that
someone very sinister is prowling around town but can
she sniff them out before anyone else dies?
As in the previous books, the murder takes place in a
small town with family roots and stories that span
several generations. The death occurs near the
beginning of the book, giving the author a lengthy time
frame to develop more of the Winter Garden, VA world
and set the stage for murder and mystery solving. We
are reacquainted with the key characters and introduced
to many new ones.