Bagels and Betrayal — Wendy Meadows

A remote lake house, a threatening phone call, and a terrifying mystery that could be her last.Desperate to protect her best friend Julie after a strange threatening phone call, Bethany Lights flees Alaska to a small town nestled in the North Carolina mountains. But they're not out of the woods yet. Somebody wants them dead... and Bethany is about to be catapulted into a terrifying fight for survival.Held hostage by masked madmen and trapped in a remote lake house, Bethany and Julie find themselves dragged into a confusing mystery with life-changing consequences. As the bodies begin to pile up, Bethany knows that their time is running out.Faced with murder, betrayal, and a deadly case filled with hungry scorpions, Bethany is horrified to realize that this time, the mystery involves her own mother...Can Bethany outsmart her captors and unravel the truth behind the killers? Or will her next case prove too much for her to beat?As the third riveting novel in the Snow Falls Alaska Mystery series, Bethany Light's next adventure is a page-turning who-dun-it that's brimming with head-scratching clues, a determined heroine, and all the twists and turns of a captivating cozy mystery.