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Crime and Cherry Pits

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Head back to snowy Michigan just in time for the annual cherry pit spitting contest. It's all fun and games until the local drama professor chokes on more than just his pride.

Shiloh Bellamy can hardly believe it—for the first time in her family farm's seventy-year history, she has managed to score a highly-coveted booth at the Cherry Farm Market in Traverse City, Michigan. It's a huge win in her master plan to bring the rundown farm back to life... and the fact that her coup has sent her next-door neighbor and organic farming competitor into fits of jealousy doesn't hurt, either. But the festive atmosphere at the farm market takes a dark turn when a man entered in the famous cherry pit-spitting competition chokes and dies right in front of Shiloh, who is standing near the sidelines as a spectator.

When the death turns out to be more suspicious than a cherry pit down the wrong pipe, Shiloh finds herself under local law enforcement's microscope—she has developed something of a reputation for being unwittingly involved in local murders. And when they discover her cousin Stacey had been secretly dating the man in question—and that he was married to someone else—Shiloh begins to worry that everything she has worked so hard to accomplish with her family's farm is about to be taken away. It will take all her investigative skills, a tenuous friendship (or is it something more?) with the local sheriff, and some help from Shiloh's trusty pug, Huckleberry, to prove the cops are barking up the wrong cherry tree and put the real killer behind bars for good.

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      January 1, 2024
      A family feud and romantic difficulties are just minor problems for an organic cherry grower confronted by murder. Shiloh Bellamy, who gave up a career in Hollywood to take over the family farm in Michigan, has improved the orchard and even helped solve some murders, but she still has to contend with drama. Her father and uncle each inherited half the farm, and after her uncle died, his daughter, Stacey, sold their portion. Now Shiloh's discovered some valuable stock certificates her grandmother had hidden before her death, and Stacey thinks she's entitled to half the money, which she wants for her theatrical enterprises. Though Shiloh is willing, her father isn't, and somehow Shiloh gets all the blame. The good news is that Shiloh's been selected to have a booth at the Cherry Farm Market, which is a great honor. As Shiloh watches the cherry-spitting contest, Dr. Dane Fullbright, a teacher and actor who's just had a nasty argument with Stacey, appears to choke on a pit. Shiloh tries the Heimlich maneuver but can't prevent his death, which proves to have been no accident. Someone who knew about his penicillin allergy may have used Stacey's pills to coat that pit, so Stacey naturally insists that Shiloh clear her name by investigating. Although Stacey infuriates Shiloh, she can't believe her cousin's a killer. The local law officers, meanwhile, get help from Antrim County Sheriff Milan Penbrook, with whom Shiloh has a tenuous romantic relationship. To prove Stacey innocent, Shiloh must dig into Fullbright's past and uncover secrets that could provide a motive for murder. A likable heroine once again proves her chops.

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