Bacon Cheddar Murder — Patti Benning

With the pizzeria thriving and old friendships rekindled, Eleanora Pacelli is finally beginning to settle into a quiet life in the small town of Kittiport, Maine, but her quiet contentment doesn't last long. Ellie's whole world is turned upside down when her best friend, covered in blood, terrified, and babbling about a masked assailant, shows up at her back door in the middle of the night, to lead her to a gruesome murder scene. As the police close in, Ellie works hard to prove that her friend is innocent, but when the questions begin to pile up, even she starts to have her doubts. Just who was this masked assailant? Why was Shannon meeting a strange man in the woods at night? Is her friend really as innocent as she claims?