In the heart of Old San Francisco, Mrs. Karine Kellyâs new career as the confectioner at the opulent Palace Hotel takes a deadly turn when the reverend from her small Minnesota townâa man she believes murdered her auntâunexpectedly arrives with familiar and hated companions, eats one of her signature desserts and drops dead from poisoning. Suddenly, sheâs ringing in the New Year as a murder suspect.
Detective Fisherâs team is stretched thin after a freak snowfall hits New Yearâs Day. Then he receives a midnight summons to the Palace where a man has been brazenly murdered. Once again Mrs. Kelly is the prime suspect, yet she holds the key to who the murdered man was and who might have wanted him dead. His young wife who yearns to perform on stage? His estranged son, set to inherit the congregation? Two of his most devoted followers?
As the web of suspicion grows, Mrs. Kelly finds herself at its center, her future hanging in the balance, with only a sparkling earring for a clue, and a tenuous truce with Detective Fisher. And then the murderer strikes again.
In the heart of Old San Francisco, Mrs. Karine Kellyâs new career as the confectioner at the opulent Palace Hotel takes a deadly turn when the reverend from her small Minnesota townâa man she believes murdered her auntâunexpectedly arrives with familiar and hated companions, eats one of her signature desserts and drops dead from poisoning. Suddenly, sheâs ringing in the New Year as a murder suspect.
Detective Fisherâs team is stretched thin after a freak snowfall hits New Yearâs Day. Then he receives a midnight summons to the Palace where a man has been brazenly murdered. Once again Mrs. Kelly is the prime suspect, yet she holds the key to who the murdered man was and who might have wanted him dead. His young wife who yearns to perform on stage? His estranged son, set to inherit the congregation? Two of his most devoted followers?
As the web of suspicion grows, Mrs. Kelly finds herself at its center, her future hanging in the balance, with only a sparkling earring for a clue, and a tenuous truce with Detective Fisher. And then the murderer strikes again.