"Between hosting a haunted house on her lawn, serving on the town's 400th Anniversary Planning Committee, and prepping for the Fall Festival's 10k fundraiser, Lilly's hands are full. She doesn't have time for prickly newspaper reporter Tyler Crane, who's been creeping around town, looking for dirt on Goosebush's most notable families . . . until he's found dead on the race route moments before the start. An unfortunate accident? Or did Tyler unearth...

While competing in the New England Fall Food Fest, cook Sherry Oliveri, after a fellow competitor is murdered, must catch a killer before another deadly course is served.