A review by nursenell
Sour Apples by Sheila Connolly

5.0

I've loved all of Sheila Connolly's Orchard Mystery series. In this book Meg and Bree add 3 acres more of apple trees, planting them all by themselves. A neighbor organic dairy farmer is found dead in her milking barn. It turns out she was murdered, not killed accidentally by a cow. Who would want to murder a woman who had no enemies? She is renting pasture land from the town. When her cows start getting sick and one dies she has soil testing done. Was the land properly treated after serving as a home to a paint factory years ago? Then her husband turns up hanging from a rope in the barn. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered too? And what does the hometown boy running for congress have to do with all of this?

This was my favorite so far in the series