DRAW AND ORDER

Death disturbs the serene beauty of the Daniel Boone National Forest.

When Miranda Trent inherited her uncle’s farm in Kentucky, she gave up her career as an artist in New York and set out to establish a business that combined teaching art with hiking, preparing traditional, locally sourced food, and brewing moonshine. Armed with her uncle’s famous moonshine recipe, she’s working to build a still in her barn. Trouble arrives with the Risky Business Adventurers, a group of skilled hikers whom Miranda’s boyfriend, Ranger Austin Morgan, joins on an excursion to lecture on geology and local legends. It’s fortunate that he’s along on this difficult climb, for one of the hikers discovers human remains. Miranda has a bad feeling that the body could be that of her cousin Howard Cable, an experienced outdoorsman who disappeared without a trace five years ago. Howard was always searching for the lost silver mines legendary in the area. A forensic anthropologist confirms that the bones are those of a male with a broken leg and other damage. Certain the bones are her cousin’s, Miranda, who’s already solved one murder, promises her aunt that she’ll investigate and joins forces with Austin to do so. Miranda is surprised to learn that the members of Risky Business are all old friends of Howard's and that one of them had been about to become engaged to him, so she has plenty of suspects once the coroner determines that Howard was murdered. She knows she’s getting close when the killer sabotages her business, but she and Austin continue their hunt undeterred.

A solid mystery with the welcome addition of recipes for moonshine cocktails and down-home Southern dishes.