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A Detour to Murder: A Gold Rush Legacy Mystery
A dog, a disaster, and a dead man.
Headed back to California’s Gold Country, Catarina (Cat) Mahoney has a culinary degree in her pocket and a second chance on the horizon.
Inheriting a historic inn might be just the fresh start she needs until a runaway dog, a shady stranger, and a ditch-side disaster send her plans careening off course.
Moments after saving a wounded Labrador and tangling with a furious man in the woods, Cat finds herself caught in a small-town scandal when that same man turns up dead.
Now she’s stuck in Cedar Ridge with a wrecked car, a former Search & Rescue dog named Echo, and a growing list of suspects.
One of them is determined to keep the town’s secrets buried. When threatening notes turn up and shots are fired at her, she knows she’ll need more than baking skills to crack this case.
This pastry chef-turned-detective must uncover the truth, or this will be one recipe that ends in disaster.
Headed back to California’s Gold Country, Catarina (Cat) Mahoney has a culinary degree in her pocket and a second chance on the horizon.
Inheriting a historic inn might be just the fresh start she needs until a runaway dog, a shady stranger, and a ditch-side disaster send her plans careening off course.
Moments after saving a wounded Labrador and tangling with a furious man in the woods, Cat finds herself caught in a small-town scandal when that same man turns up dead.
Now she’s stuck in Cedar Ridge with a wrecked car, a former Search & Rescue dog named Echo, and a growing list of suspects.
One of them is determined to keep the town’s secrets buried. When threatening notes turn up and shots are fired at her, she knows she’ll need more than baking skills to crack this case.
This pastry chef-turned-detective must uncover the truth, or this will be one recipe that ends in disaster.
87 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 24, 2025
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October 28, 2025
Cat misses hitting a dog with her car and ends up in a ditch. When a mountain man tried to take the injured dog, she stops him and holds him off as emergency vehicles arrive. Later the mountain man is found dead. Can she figure out why and who killed him? And what the dog has to do with anything? The story kept me going through the end. A great starter for the Gold Rush Legacy by Maggie Crane.
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