Book ~ "Boiled Over" (2014) Barbara Ross

From Goodreads ~ For Julia Snowden, the Founder’s Day summer celebration in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, means helping her family’s clambake company to prepare an authentic taste of New England seafood. Any Mainer will tell you that a real clambake needs wood for the fire ... so why is there a foot sticking out of the oven? 

The townspeople want to pin the murder of the RV park owner on Cabe Stone, a new employee of the Snowden Family Clambake Company, who bolted from the crime scene and disappeared. 

Julia knows having another murder associated with her family’s business is a recipe for disaster ... but who is the killer? Cooking up a proper investigation doesn’t leave much time for the rest of Julia’s life, and this is one killer who’ll do anything to stop her from digging up clues.

In the spring, Julia had returned from New York to her hometown of Busman’s Harbor, Maine, to help save her family’s struggling clambake business. The town’s annual Founder's Day celebration is in full swing, with fireworks, food and lots of tourists. Julia’s family clambake has a booth at the festival but things go downhill when a body is discovered in the fire pit used for cooking clams. Even worse, the prime suspect is Cabe Stone, one of Julia’s summer employees. 

Cabe is a young drifter with a troubled past who had found stability working for the Snowdens. Julia believes Cabe is innocent and, determined to clear his name (and protect her family’s reputation), she starts investigating. As she digs, she uncovers secrets in the small town, which she hopes gets her closer to finding the killer.

This story was written in first person perspective in Julia's voice. It's a cozy mystery so there is no swearing, violence or adult activity (just brief references that it had happened). There were lots of characters to keep track of so at times I had to stop and remember who was who. I was okay with the whodunnit. At the end of the book, there are recipes that were mentioned during the story like lobster deviled eggs and blueberry pancakes.

This is the second (of 12) in the Maine Clambake Mystery series. I read the first one last week and liked this one better so I'll keep moving through the series.