Cranberry and Cowbane

Eleven tagged roots. One dead forager. Too many easy answers.

Autumn in Hollow Oak means cranberries, steaming tea, and opinions nobody asked for. Maggie Thistlewood has plenty of all three. Her talking black cat, Bartholomew, supplies most of the opinions.

Then a celebrated forager dies at the harvest table. He checked every root he dug. The town blames the brook, then the old woman who warned him. Maggie is not ready to accept either answer.

A photograph, eleven tagged root heels, and a typed statement tell different stories. To find the truth, Maggie must ask what the evidence actually proves—and what someone hopes the town will believe.

Cranberry and Cowbane is a complete standalone cozy mystery novella and the fifth Hollow Oak Witch Cozy Mystery. Settle in for a small-town autumn, a witch with a tea-and-book shop, and a black cat with a very long memory.