I am happy to share with you the cover reveal for the first book in a brand new mystery series from Joyce Tremel, coming January 2024 and now up for preorder.
Publication Date: January 16, 2024
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Format: Print, Digital
Name of Series: Cider House
Number in Series: Book #1
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Author Website: joycetremel.com
Book Synopsis
Perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Julie Anne Lindsey, when Kate Mulligan inherits her great uncle’s fruit orchard, she quickly realizes that apples aren’t the only thing that can have rotten cores.
After losing her husband in a terrible car crash, thirty-five-year-old Kate is left to pick up the pieces of her life alone. Although she has physically recovered, she worries her spirit never will. But when she learns that she has inherited a fruit orchard in a small town just outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from her great uncle Stan, she takes this as an opportunity ripe for the picking. Kate knew immediately what to do with it: open a cider house. Her hopeful plans fall far from the tree when she finds the body of the orchard manager, Carl Randolph, leaving her to figure out who is at the core of this murder.
She had been in correspondence with Carl, who had agreed with her brilliant idea of opening a cider house. But not everyone is so quick to buy what she was selling—Uncle Stan’s lawyer, Robert Larabee, paints a less rosy financial outlook of the orchard’s past, present, and future.
Kate discovers that Carl had large, unexplained deposits to his bank account and it becomes clear that either he was blackmailing someone, or someone was paying him to keep quiet. Meanwhile, Kate and her neighbors receive offers to buy their property from a mysterious buyer. And there’s more than meets the eye with the neighboring orchard owner, Daniel Martinez, although Kate can’t quite put her finger on if it’s sweet or sour.
Will she be able to pick out the bad apple among the bunch before it’s too late?
About the author
Joyce Tremel was a police secretary for ten years and more than once envisioned the demise of certain co-workers, but settled on writing as a way to keep herself out of jail. In addition to the Cider House mysteries, she wrote the Brewing Trouble mysteries. She lives in the beautiful Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania with her husband and two cats named Hops and Lager.
All comments are welcomed.
Love it! And can’t wait to read this one!
Thanks, my friend!
Sounds great! I look forward to getting to know Kate!
Thanks!
Looking forward to it. I loved the Brewing Trouble series, been missing it.
I miss the Brewing Trouble series too! I hope you’ll like this one.
Congratulations on the new series, Joyce! Looks like a winner.
Love the cover.
The cover is so pretty!
Thanks, Kaye!
Sounds very good. Love the cover.
Thanks!
Great book cover!
Thanks! I love the cover.
Cover is great but the written copy is so inviting!
Thank you!
LOVE that cover! Congrats, Joyce. I can’t wait to read it.
Thanks!
Congratulations, Joyce! Great cover and storyline!
Thank you!