Murder on Cape Cod, A Wine Spritzer & A Giveaway

Need a hint of summer to get you through the winter? Maddie Day (the nome de plume of Author Edith Maxwell) has the perfect solution with her cozy mystery novel, Murder on Cape Cod and A Summer Wine Spritzer. Don't forget to comment on the post because Edith will pick one lucky winner at random to receive a free signed copy of the book (US residents only).  I can feel the heat of the sun already.

Summer is busy season for Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida’s bicycle shop, nestled in the seaside hamlet of Westham, Massachusetts. She’s expecting an influx of tourists at Mac’s Bikes; instead she discovers the body of Jake Lacey, and her brother soon becomes a suspect. Mac’s only experience with murder investigations is limited to the cozy mysteries she reads with her local book group, the Cozy Capers. To clear her brother’s name, Mac has to summon help from her book group co-investigators. For a small town, Westham is teeming with possible killers, and this is one mystery where Mac is hoping for anything but a surprise ending.

Cape Cod, with its iconic beaches, inland ponds, and tourist towns, is a favorite with visitors. But the flat sandy soil is also prime cranberry-growing terrain. I included this refreshing light cranberry spritzer in Murder on Cape Cod, a favorite of Mac’s to enjoy while relaxing at home.

Cape Cod Wine Spritzer 

Adjust proportions up or down depending on sweetness and degree of alcohol you like in your spritzer.

Ingredients

6 ounces Pinot Grigio 

4 ounces cranberry juice (I used an all-juice cranberry-apple mix but you can also use cranberry juice cocktail)

1 tablespoon Grenadine syrup

1/4 lime, squeezed

Lime seltzer

Directions

Combine ingredients in large bowl wine glass. Add ice cubes and top up with seltzer. Easy to adjust up or down on the juice and Grenadine to make it more or less sweet, and the seltzer to dilute it.

Murder on Cape Cod is available exclusively in paperback from Barnes & Noble for the first year, then it will be re-released on all platforms and formats. I’m happy to send one commenter here a signed copy of the book!

Bio:

Agatha- and Macavity-nominated Edith Maxwell writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Foods Mysteries, and award-winning short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she writes the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. Maxwell lives north of Boston with her beau and two elderly cats, and gardens and cooks when she isn’t killing people on the page or wasting time on Facebook. Please find her there, at edithmaxwell.com, on Instagram, and at the Wicked Authors blog and at killercharacters.com.