When the Midnight Mocha Mystery Tour rolls into town, café owner Claire Mitchell expects caffeine-fueled fun -- not a body in the gazebo.

Event mastermind Lionel Pryce is found dead inside a locked room, the key placed just so, the scene arranged like the final act of one of his elaborate puzzles. But Claire knows puzzles. And this one doesn't add up.

A counterfeit batch of clue cards. A hidden compartment beneath a loose plank. A USB that vanished before she could reach it.

As suspicion settles neatly on the town handyman, Claire sees what others miss: someone staged this crime to look solvable.

In a town where appearances matter and secrets brew just beneath the surface, Claire must untangle illusion from intention -- before the wrong person pays for a killer's carefully crafted deception.

Because this puzzle wasn't meant to be solved.

It was meant to point in the wrong direction.

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• Publication Date: March 20, 2026
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• Print Length: 234 Pages
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