A man is dead in her prep room. The lease is threatened. And the register logged a latte no one ordered, at twenty-three forty-seven on a night the café was locked and empty.

Rory Lane is trying to run a coffee shop. That’s all she wants: good coffee, regular customers, and an unremarkable lease renewal. What she gets is Edgar Mullins dead on her floor, a camera glitch that’s too convenient to be accidental, and a property manager who keeps turning up with very warm smiles and very sharp edges.

The investigation that follows takes Rory through her neighbors’ secrets, an eight-year paper trail of fraud, and one fabricated fire safety inspection that was never meant to be found. Every time she thinks she has the full picture, it gets bigger. Every time she tries to step back, the next detail won’t let her.

The evidence is in the records. It always was. Someone just had to be paying attention.

Latte Lies is the second book in the Rory Lane Café Mysteries; cozy, fair-play mysteries set in the small-town world of Willowbrook, where the coffee is excellent and the truth has a way of surfacing in the most unremarkable places.