One Bad Apple — Sheila Connolly

An apple a day keeps the corpses away...

When Meg Corey unexpectedly finds herself out of a job, an apartment, and a relationship, she seizes the opportunity to renovate the Massachusetts colonial house her mother has inherited from distant relations and to sell it quickly for a share of the profits. But Meg gets more than she bargained for when she learns that renovating a two-hundred-year-old house is no easy task and that the gorgeous fifteen-acre apple orchard on the property is in danger of being paved over by developers. And she definitely isn't expecting to run into her ex-boyfriend...floating dead in her new septic tank.

The police immediately suspect Meg, whose only ally is the charming local plumber who found the body. Determined to clear her name-- while fighting her growing attachment to the troublesome house and orchard--Meg begins to investigate the crime and the townspeople only to find there's one bad apple in this bunch...