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Peppermint Chocolate Murder

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Nikki moved to Maple Hills, Vermont, hoping for a quiet life making chocolates, but trouble has followed her there. After an earlier run-in with a criminal network, a body turns up at The Lodge, and the victim comes from her old hometown of Atlanta. As the newest resident in a close community, Nikki quickly becomes the subject of gossip, so she decides to use her years as a big-city reporter to ask questions of her own.

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She has an unlikely partner in Hawk, a local police officer who is also the chief's son. Together they must piece together a case that grows more tangled at every turn, while staying ahead of a killer whose reasons are unclear but dangerous. The setting is a picturesque corner of hills near the Canadian border, where a cozy town hides more than its postcards suggest.

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