Orchard mysteries
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Orchard mysteries volume 1
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Spring has come to Meg Corey's apple orchard - and it's quickly becoming a killer season. Just as she's getting the hang of managing the two-hundred-year-old orchard she's inherited, the dead body of a local organic farming enthusiast is found in her springhouse. The young man's body had traces of pesticide poisoning -- strange for someone opposed to all things chemical. And why did someone plant his body on Meg's land when she hadn't even met him?...
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©2010
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Some baby-faced chefs are looking to open a restaurant in Granford. They plan on using local foods--great news for city girl banker-turned-orchard owner Meg Corey. Yet when one of the chefs is found dead, Meg discovers they may have a locally grown killer on their hands.
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Now that Meg Corey's apples have been harvested and sold, she's enjoying some free time. Especially since she's snowed in without power or heat. Luckily her maybe-boyfriend Seth is keeping her company, and agrees to help her clean out the house. In a dusty corner Meg finds an early 19th-century silk sampler embroidered with apple trees, with names she doesn't recognize. Then Meg starts being plagued by a series of increasingly serious mishaps.
6) Sour apples
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Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford - she's made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up - when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the congressional campaign for a former hometown football hero. But Meg doesn't have time to worry about Lauren's campaign, because her neighbor, outspoken dairy farmer Joyce Truesdell, is found dead. Was the...
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While orchard owner Meg Corey dreads the labor of manual irrigation to stave off a drought, her boyfriend, Seth, couldn't be more excited about doing historic renovation on one of Granford's oldest houses. Tagging along as he picks up supplies is supposed to give Meg a much-needed break, but the trip turns rotten when she almost trips over a dead body at an old saw mill's forest reserve. But the body isn't the only frightening discovery she makes....
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It's harvest time in Granford, Massachusetts, and orchard owner Meg Corey and her fiance, Seth, are both racing to beat the New England winter. Meg is bringing in her apple crop with a team of workers, while Seth is working to restore an old building in the center of town. But when his project is set back due to the unexpected discovery of a skeleton under the building--and even worse, a young man related to one of Meg's former apple pickers is found...
9) A gala event
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The fall harvest may be just about over, but orchard owner Meg Corey is busier than ever planning her wedding to Seth Chapin. Who knew picking apples would be less work than picking out rings and a dress? And even though the happy couple has invited most of Granford, Massachusetts, to the ceremony, they might have to make room for one more guest...Ex-con Aaron Eastman has unexpectedly reappeared in his hometown, searching for answers to the tragic...
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With the bushels of time spent organizing their wedding, Meg and Seth never planned a honeymoon. Now winter has arrived, and with their shared love of history and apples they head for Thomas Jefferson's orchards at Monticello. But as they're enjoying the sights, Meg's parents discover their handyman dead in the backyard.
11) A late frost
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When newcomer Monica Whitman falls ill and dies, supposedly due to food poisoning, orchard owner Meg Corey Chapman investigates and soon discovers that there is one bad apple in the bunch as it becomes clear that Monica was murdered.
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"Winter still has a firm stranglehold on the small town of Granford, and newly married orchard owner Meg Chapin is restless to begin her spring pruning and planting, while Seth busies himself with a new project of his own. But their relative peace is shattered when a gunshot breaks the winter silence and they discover the body of a dead woman on their land. What's just as troubling is that the state police have hushed up the murder and are warning...
