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Trouble is brewing for coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen when her barista's wealthy beau is murdered.

Maggy Thorsen's head is spinning thanks to partner Sarah Kingston's latest idea – selling luxe espresso machines in their Wisconsin coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds. But Maggy soon faces a far bigger problem when her fiancé, sheriff Jake Pavlik, makes an official call on the coffeehouse’s star barista, Amy Caprese, to inform her that her wealthy new beau, investment adviser Kip Fargo, has been shot dead in his bed.

And, unfortunately, Amy was the last person to have seen him alive. 

Coffee, a canine and a corpse 

A bad feeling leads to an even worse discovery when Maggy tries to return a Chihuahua to its owners in the new coffeehouse mystery.

In the tenth installment of the Maggy Thorsen mysteries, coffee shop owner Maggy confronts a number of mysterious deaths and has an important decision to make about her future with Sheriff Jake Pavlik in The Important of Being Urnest, which Publishers Weekly calls "Balzo's witty 10th mystery… has loads of eccentric suspects and juicy motives, and the clues are wrapped in lively conversation.”  

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.