A harvest festival, a TV crew, and a murder staged in plain sight.
Summer in Miłosław means harvest festival crowds, fresh pączki, and more tourists than Lena Mazur ever wanted to serve before coffee.
It also means cameras.
When a television crew arrives to cover the region's harvest traditions, the attention is good for business, until one of the festival's most visible guests ends up dead and the celebration turns into a crime scene. Suddenly Lena is dealing with performers, producers, old grudges, and the kind of polished public image that hides ugly private motives.
The victim had enemies in front of the camera and behind it. The town is buzzing, the police are stretched, and Lena knows from experience that once the official story starts sounding too tidy, it usually means someone is working very hard to keep the real one buried.
Between festival chaos, bakery deadlines, and a growing list of suspects, Lena will have to figure out which lies were staged for the audience and which ones were worth killing for.
Harvest of Lies is a warm, witty culinary cozy mystery set in small-town Poland, with an amateur sleuth, a bakery at its heart, and a bonus recipe at the back.
