Jan and the Lost Brownie Recipe: Maple Grove Cozy Mystery, #7

Jan Airy has spent years as Maple Grove's most infamous baker.

Her cookies are remembered for the wrong reasons, her cakes have inspired cautious silence, and even Boone has learned to keep a respectful distance from anything she carries on a plate. Jan has laughed along with the jokes, but she has never stopped trying.

After fifty-six failed attempts, batch fifty-seven finally changes everything.

Her brownies are not just good for Jan. They are genuinely wonderful. Sherry and Stan are stunned. Darla at Bake & Banter is impressed enough to offer Jan a short-term café trial if she can reproduce the recipe consistently. For the first time, Jan has a chance to be known not as Maple Grove's worst baker, but as someone who made something truly special.

Then her recipe notebook disappears.

The missing notebook holds months of careful notes, failed batches, adjustments, measurements, and the breakthrough that could change how Maple Grove sees her. At first, Jan fears she misplaced it. But when pieces of her notes begin turning up in suspicious places and another baker's brownies suddenly improve, Sherry, Riley, Stan, Darla, Grandma Martinez, Kiki, Wendy, Boone, and the rest of the Maple Grove circle begin to suspect the recipe may not be lost after all.

Someone may have taken it.

As Jan fights to recover her recipe and her confidence, Maple Grove faces one final mystery about pride, jealousy, second chances, and the courage it takes to keep trying after everyone expects you to fail.

Warm, funny, heartfelt, and full of small-town chaos, Jan and the Lost Brownie Recipe is the seventh and final book in the Maple Grove Cozy Mystery series.