Apple Blossom Time is book twenty-three in the Whistle Stop Café Mysteries fiction series.
Debbie Albright is busier—and happier—than ever! She is running the Whistle Stop Café with her best friend, planning a wedding, and taking on more of the responsibilities of a future stepmother to Greg Connor’s two sons. But not everyone is thrilled about her upcoming nuptials, and at least one person is determined to speak now and not hold their peace.
When a pair of garden gnome figurines disappear from her fiancé’s yard, the boys are devastated. The whimsical whatnots were a favorite of their late mother, and Debbie is determined to find out what happened to them. The gnomes are not the only things that go missing. Yard ornaments are vanishing all over town, only to show up in photographs posted on Dennison’s website. Debbie and Janet compile a long list of suspects and clues that point in different directions. What they finally discover may just write a new chapter in the town’s history.