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By C.B. Miller
The Blueberry
Muffin Murders
In Maple Falls, the pastries are perfect.
The secrets are not.
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A man takes one bite of a prize-winning muffin.
Then he drops dead on the grass.
The muffin belonged to her.
Clara Miller left behind seventeen years of high school chemistry to open the Periodic Table Bakery in the picture-perfect village of Maple Falls, Vermont.
She traded test tubes for rolling pins. Beakers for buttermilk. A gradebook for a green lab notebook.
She should have known you can't outrun chemistry.
The Mystery
When high-powered developer Arthur Vance — the man trying to pave over the town's beloved blueberry barrens — collapses at the Maple Falls Blueberry Bash after eating Clara's prize entry, the whole town turns against her.
"What did you put in that?" the man shouted, his face a mask of panicked sweat. "What was in that muffin?"
The Sheriff slaps yellow tape across her door. The community board erupts. Someone posts: "EATING HERE PUT A MAN IN THE HOSPITAL."
But Clara is not just a baker. She is a chemist. And chemists do not guess — they observe, they test, they prove.
The poison was sodium nitrite. Not in the batter. In the berries. Someone had used her muffin as a delivery system — and framed her perfectly.
Now Clara has 72 hours to clear her name, expose a web of small-town corruption, and find the person who turned her life's work into a murder weapon.
The dough is rising. The clock is ticking. And in Maple Falls, everyone has something to hide.
Can a former chemistry teacher solve a murder before her bakery closes for good?
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This Book Is For You If…
- You love Agatha Christie's sharp, clever sleuthing
- You're a fan of Joanne Fluke's bakery mysteries
- Louise Penny's Three Pines feels like home to you
- You've ever wanted Jessica Fletcher's instincts (Murder She Wrote)
- M.C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth is your kind of cozy
- You like your heroines brilliant, prickly, and unapologetically themselves
- You want atmosphere, wit, and a satisfying mystery in one read
Readers Are Saying
"Clara Miller is the heroine I didn't know I needed — sharp, funny, and completely uninterested in suffering fools. I devoured this in one sitting and immediately wanted the next book."
— Verified Reader
"Equal parts chemistry lesson and cozy mystery. I love how the science is woven into the plot — it makes the twists feel earned, not contrived. Vermont autumn, a grumpy sheriff, and a brilliant baker? Yes please."
— Verified Reader
"Reminded me of why I fell in love with cozy mysteries. Warm, witty, and with just enough edge to keep you guessing. The ending surprised me completely."
— Verified Reader
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About the Author
C.B. Miller survived 24 years as a public school chemistry teacher before trading the lab for a drafty Vermont farmhouse — and a typewriter.
She doesn't bake with love. She bakes with thermodynamic rigor and a calibrated milligram scale. Her prose, like her signature rye, is crusty, unapologetically salty, and deeply fermented in dry wit.
The Blueberry Muffin Murders is the first book in the Maple Falls Mystery series. Next up: The Maple Syrup Murders.
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Who poisoned the muffin?
Only one person can find out.
72 hours. A closed bakery. A town full of suspects. And a former chemistry teacher who refuses to be framed.
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