Maple Sugar Murders (New England Cozy)

Private investigator Harvard educated Hugh Quint has moved to an idyllic church steepled New Hampshire town where he "has some rugged stubborn New England types to contend with"- as The New York Times reviewer puts it. This "New England Cozy"(in the tradition of the English village cozy) plunks the reader down between feuding landowners of maple sugar orchards. When a neighbor is strangled, sweetness and light fast turns sticky and dangerous as Hugh Quint closes in on suspects.