Whispers In A Rolling Pin

When retired pastry chef Clarissa Vale inherits her late aunt's beloved cupcake shop in the sleepy mountain town of Maple Glade, she expects little more than frosting, fresh starts, and maybe a chance to recover from burnout.Instead, she finds a hollowed-out rolling pin containing cryptic letters tied to a decades-old disappearance that still haunts the town.Before Clarissa can make sense of the hidden documents, Maple Glade's most feared food critic collapses dead during the bakery's grand reopening party—with Clarissa's signature blackberry buttercream as the final bite on his lips.Now whispers swirl faster than powdered sugar in the bakery kitchen. The shop staff all seem to be hiding something, the townsfolk have long memories, and the rolling pin may connect the present murder to a betrayal someone has spent forty years trying to conceal.Between early-morning baking, suspicious recipes, and gossip shared over coffee cake, Clarissa must uncover which secret was worth killing for… before Maple Glade serves up another corpse.