Apple Pie & Alibis

Emily Harper comes to Maplewood hoping for steadier days and the chance to keep her family’s pie shop alive. For a brief moment, the town offers exactly that: familiar streets, busy mornings in the kitchen, and the promise of a quieter life.

That calm begins to fracture after a heated encounter with Richard Hale, a man whose presence stirs tension wherever he goes. When he is found dead soon after, Emily is pulled into a web of careful omissions, strained loyalties, and details that refuse to fit together.

Apple Pie & Alibis opens the Maplewood Pie Shop Mysteries with a warm small-town atmosphere, a thoughtful amateur sleuth, and a mystery that unfolds one clue at a time.