A staged caper based on Murder on the Orient Express is interrupted by a real-life killer in this mystery featuring coffee shop owner Maggy Thorsen.
Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of gourmet coffeehouse Uncommon Grounds, is thrilled to be leaving behind the cold winter weather of Wisconsin for sunny South Florida. In town to attend the annual crime-writers’ conference with her beau, sheriff Jeff Pavlik, Maggy maintains that she’s just along for the ride—no amateur sleuthing involved.
But Maggy must break her pledge to behave solely as a tourist when the conference’s opening night event turns out to be a re-enactment of Agatha Christie’s classic, Murder on the Orient Express. As Maggy and Jake reluctantly set off on the night train to the Everglades to solve the ‘crime’, it soon becomes clear that, just like in the original novel, nothing is quite what it seems. . . .