Sandra Balzo's GROUNDS FOR MURDER, set in a small-town coffee house, featuring a sleuth-owner and her colorful friends and customers of Uncommon Grounds, to Hartwell Media/Robert Halmi Jr. (Farscape) producer, by Nancy Yost at Nancy Yost Literary Agency.

Murder on the Orient Espresso

Wisconsin coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen accompanies her main squeeze, Sheriff Jake Pavlik, to South Florida, where he's been asked to speak at a mystery-writers' conference.  Maggy is anticipating a romantic arrival in their hotel suite, but when the opening night event turns out to be a re-enactment of Agatha Christie’s classic, Murder on the Orient Express, the couple reluctantly sets off on a night train into the Everglades.

The idea is to solve the "crime" and return, but the troupe soon finds itself embroiled in a real-life murder mystery as creepy and baffling as any work of fiction.