Grounds for Murder

In a coffee shop where every cup tells the truth, someone finally read one they wish they hadn't.Effie Demir came home to Port Marlow for slow mornings behind her grandmother's counter, not for a murder investigation. But when the town's newest café owner turns up dead hours after a public falling-out with Nine, the whole town is ready to hand the police the easiest story instead of the true one. Effie isn't. She knows her grandmother. She knows how fast this town turns a rumor into a verdict. And she intends to find out what really happened before someone she loves pays for a crime they didn't commit.But the deeper Effie digs, the clearer it becomes that this town has been guarding the same secret for sixty years — and somebody was willing to kill to protect it for one more week. As the festival crowds thin, the suspects narrow, and the people Effie trusts most start behaving like strangers, she's left holding a question she can't put down and can't answer alone: what do you do when the truth you're chasing might destroy the very person you're trying to save?