num_pages: 288
description: March on Barton Farm can only mean one thing: maple sugar season. To combat the winter slump resilient director Kelsey Cambridge organizes a Maple Sugar Festival complete with school visits pancake breakfasts and tree tapping classes. Kelsey hires curmudgeonly maple sugar expert Dr. Conrad Beeson to teach the classes despite misgivings over his unpleasant demeanor. It's a decision she ends up regretting when before the first tree can be tapped for sap Dr. Beeson turns up dead.The maple sugar expert's death threatens to shut down not only the Maple Sugar Festival but also Barton Farm itself. Kelsey must solve Dr. Beeson's murder to escape the increasingly sticky situation.
language: English
title: The Final Tap
publisher: Midnight Ink