Cricket McRae

Discovering a cassette recording in which a therapist fearfully contemplates a client's murderous threats, Sophie Max investigates when the therapist is subsequently killed, in a case that explores the age-old art of mead and wine making.

A cryptic suicide note her brother wrote years earlier leads Sophie Mae to unravel the mystery in her old hometown, and as she pokes around in other people's business while learning the finer points of artisanal cheese making, a new murder is committed.