A Bitter Finish

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The Second Chapter Inn's first autumn tasting weekend should prove its restored dining room is ready for business. Instead, a regional drinks critic collapses after announcing that one of Dunnett's celebrated ciders is not what its label claims.

The tasting glasses have been moved, a private bottle has been relabeled, and the service bell carries a sticky residue that may matter—or may belong to an entirely different deception. Every producer at the table has a reputation to protect, but source fraud, professional spite, and murder are not the same thing.

Meg Ashworth and Chief Armand Desrosiers must follow the service records without letting the weekend's carefully marketed story replace what actually happened. Along the way, Meg discovers that protecting her staff can become another way of making choices for them.

A Bitter Finish is Book Three in The Second Chapter Inn Mysteries, a warm, clue-forward cozy mystery series set at a lakeside Vermont inn. No gore, no romance for the sleuth, and a fair-play solution.

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