Deadly Dram: A Whisky Business Mystery by Melinda Mullet

They are competing in a whiskey contest and have a good chance of winning.  The only problem is that the judges are showing up dead...

Alibi and Net Galley let me read this book for review (thank you).  It is being published today.

You learn quite a bit about whiskey as well as nicotine poisoning in this story.  When one death occurs and then another, it seems those who went to school together are being targeted.  But why?

Abi and the cop snoop.  He's short of men, so he asks her to help but be careful.  She thinks she is but when her partner borrows her toothpaste and gets poisoned it looks like she's been asking too many questions.

Will he survive?  Will she find the killer?  Read it and see.