Holly Jolly Fudge Folly (Fudge Shop Mystery, #3)

Every morning, a small wrapped gift waits at Ava Oosterling's door. A braided bracelet. A polished agate. Then, one snowy December dawn, a hand-pounded gold leaf, and no idea who is leaving them. Ava has fudge to make and an inn to run before her best friend's Christmas wedding. But when she helps dig out a car buried by her grandfather's joyride on the village snowplow, she finds the tax assessor slumped inside, a knife in his belly and the snow turning red. The whole snowbound town had a reason to want the man gone. Only one person's fingerprints are on the blade, and they belong to the grandfather Ava would do anything to protect. Now she has until the wedding bells ring to find the real killer, before the season she loves takes someone she can't live without. Holly Jolly Fudge Folly is a snow-dusted cozy mystery stuffed with Belgian fudge, small-town secrets, and a grandfather who is far better at making trouble than staying out of it.