Joyce Tremel Books in Order

Preparing to open her Pittsburgh brewpub, Max O’Hara suffers sabotage and finds her assistant brewer murdered in a vat. With her business and safety threatened, she draws on lessons from her detective father to identify whoever is trying to stop the opening.

Max and her chef boyfriend Jake hope a beer-and-burger festival will promote their brewpub. When a hostile food critic dies after eating Jake’s burger, an investigator targets the couple, forcing them to find the real killer and protect their reputations.

Max’s Oktoberfest preparations are disrupted when a member of the oompah band turns up dead. Her friend Candy’s suspicious behaviour and concealed past complicate the investigation, while the arrival of Jake’s former fiancée creates another distraction as Max seeks the killer.

Widowed Kate Mulligan inherits a Pennsylvania orchard and plans to open a cider house. The manager’s murder interrupts her fresh start, while suspicious payments and offers to buy neighboring land suggest the business hides a dangerous secret.