Lime and Punishment: A Nora Black Midlife Psychic Mystery

Renee George

Apr 2026 · Barkside of the Moon Press

About this ebook

When Nora is tasked with judging a pie-baking contest, one of the contestants is left pucker-faced when she dies under mysterious circumstances.

My name is Nora Black, and at fifty-seven, I’ve learned that life—like key lime pie—is equal parts sweet and tart. Business is booming, my best friends are living their best lives, and I am in a great place in my own relationship. In other words, I’ve never been happier.

Things are finally settling down after that whole murder-on-the-high-seas business, and I haven’t been asked to help on a single police investigation for over a year...that is, until I agree to judge the brand-new annual Key Lime Pie Baking Contest.

Big mistake. Huge. When a contestant ends up more than just pucker-faced by keeling over after the contest ends, my no-murder streak curdles fast.

Is it an accident? A prank gone horribly wrong? Or did someone stir up a recipe for fresh-squeezed murder?

My psychic nose is whipping up memories that are equal parts sweet, sour, and deadly, and I’ll have to sniff out a killer before someone else gets served up cold.

Ratings and reviews

Another amazing and scent filled bundle of complicated friendships, family, fractures and fun. I really enjoy the imperfect characters, bruises, bumps and all -alongside complicated loyalties and betrayals. tangled trust, clever kids, messy life and death with scent triggered visions and snippets of insight that give glimpses, but incomplete pictures of the whole. intense and compelling reading that makes you want to hug your friends, family and pets, or to just kick the rude or danger