Frank Carlson Library

Sophie Mae Reynolds makes preserves by day and answers a crisis hotline by night; when she is threatened on the hotline, Sophie's boss, Philip, severs the line. Days later, Philip dies from food poisoning with the last words: "Threat. Meant it."

Harvest time in Cadyville, Washington, finds Sophie Mae Ambrose volunteering at the local organic farm--and trying to make a little sprout of her own with Barr, her police detective husband. A dead body found in the farm's compost heap is enough to cast dark clouds over Sophie Mae's sunny mood, and when Barr's boss lets her know they need help identifying the body, a reluctant Sophie Mae presses her network of friends and neighbors into action. When...