After a career on Wall Street, Lindsey is making a different kind of dough in a pretty lakeside village, and the upcoming blueberry festival-including the pie-eating contest her bakery is hosting-is the highlight of the summer. But soon Beacon Harbor runs into a patch of trouble.A local real estate agent gets pranked. A parade float gets pelted with water balloons. It's all laughed off until the stunts start escalating-and looking more like sabotage. As the event turns into a debacle complete with rampaging goats, Lindsey's sweetheart, a former SEAL, starts investigating. But the juicy mystery takes a bitter turn when a man-dressed up as a Viking-is found dead in a boat, and it's no longer mischief but murder...Living in a lighthouse with her dog, Lindsey Bakewell is lulled to sleep at night by the sound of Lake Michigan's waves-and gets up at the crack of dawn to start the day at her bakery cafe. But someone in Beacon Harbor is about to rock the boat with murder...After a career on Wall Street, Lindsey is making a different kind of dough in a pretty lakeside village, and the upcoming blueberry festival-including the pie-eating contest her bakery is hosting-is the highlight of the summer. But soon Beacon Harbor runs into a patch of trouble.A local real estate agent gets pranked. A parade float gets pelted with water balloons. It's all laughed off until the stunts start escalating-and looking more like sabotage. As the event turns into a debacle complete with rampaging goats, Lindsey's sweetheart, a former SEAL, starts investigating. But the juicy mystery takes a bitter turn when a man-dressed up as a Viking-is found dead in a boat, and it's no longer mischief but murder...

Darci Hannah grew up in the northwest suburbs of a Chicago, is a graduate of Indiana University, and currently lives in a small town in Michigan with her husband, three sons and two dogs. She has lived around the Great Lakes all her life and considers them a source of inspiration. When she's not engaged in a rollicking family adventure, walking her dogs, or working at the historic Howell Carnegie District Library, she's either baking up a storm or hard at work on her next Beacon Bakeshop Mystery. Visit her at DarciHannah.com.