The Old Town Receipt

When Gordon Pike starts digging into old timestamps and "committee business" during the Old Town Chowder Crawl, Maren Oakes brushes it off as small-town meddling. But when Gordon is found dead in Simone's walk-in cooler?with the safety release sabotaged and a marked wrench left behind?Maren knows this was no accident.

Now Simone's restaurant is under scrutiny, a hidden receipt stamped 2:14 whispers of buried favors, and someone is already trying to rewrite the scene.

Maren knows paper doesn't lie. People do.

With Simone drawing firm lines and serving hard truths alongside soup, Finn spotting patterns, and Jonah Pike urging her to stay out of it, Maren traces the trail of missing sheets, adjusted latches, and long-held grudges into the guarded heart of Salvage Bay.

The closer she gets, the clearer it becomes: someone killed to keep the town's clock running. And they're not done setting the next time.

The Old Town Receipt is the second book in the Salvage Bay Mystery series?a cozy mystery with a sapphic heart, a cat who finds trouble on his own schedule, and a coastal Maine town that hides its secrets in the most ordinary pieces of paper.

Sloane Grant spent years in the fast-paced world of nursing, where she learned that everyone has a story?and a few secrets. Now, she's traded the hospital wards for a much quieter life of "fictional homicide," trading her stethoscope for a notebook and a sharp pen.

When she isn't dreaming up small-town scandals, Sloane is a full-time "chaos coordinator" for her two daughters. Her home office is currently overseen by a strict editorial committee consisting of three cats?Mooshi, Pixie, and Sugar?and one small, very vocal dog named Chocky.

Sloane believes that the best mysteries are solved over a warm drink, and that no puzzle is too complex when you have a sharp mind and a loyal pet by your side.