Apples are in the core of the family business run by Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe. But this year’s crop is unseasonably ripe with murder .

ONE ROTTEN APPLE

Blossom Valley, West Virginia, houses Smythe Orchards, Winnie and her Granny’s beloved twenty-five-acre farm and family members business. But any way you cut it, it’s attempting. That’s why they’re wanting to drum up business with the ‘Initial Annual Christmas at the Orchard,’ an excellent old-fashioned holiday celebration with more than enough delicious draw to satisfy apple-picking local people and cider-loving vacationers alike-until the whole endeavor takes a sour change when the body of Nadine Cooper, Granny’s long-time, grudge-holding nemesis, is found lodged in the apple press. Today, with Granny the main suspect, Winnie is certainly hard-pressed to confirm her innocence before the actual killer delivers another murder . . .