Ever since she was a little girl, Lynds Murray has wanted to open a Caribbean-style bakery in her Brooklyn neighborhood. After a post-graduate degree and time in the marketing trenches, she’s finally saved up enough money to open the store of her dreams. With the help of her parents, her brother Dex, and her formidable…
I was genuinely surprised when I went to the Kensington Cozy Club Mini-Con a few months ago and realized that I had never heard of Libby Klein or her Poppy McAllister series before then. Luckily for me, Ms. Klein had a hilarious slideshow presentation at the con that convinced me to grab at least the…
Val Deniston and her Cooking Codger columnist granddad Don Myer are more than happy to help out their friend Bethany O’Shay as she finds herself somewhat in over her head while organizing the Maryland Mystery Fan Fest. Val volunteers to run the mystery trivia contest and monitor discussion panels, while Granddad will serve as a…
Sadie Coleman is looking forward to participating in her adopted town’s annual A Taste of Shady Creek festival, especially since it’s a great chance for her to promote her literary-themed pub, Inkwell, to the many tourists visiting for the event. She’s slightly surprised to discover that the festival has also attracted the attention of several…
Ivy Culpepper is happily envisioning her upcoming engagement party to be held in one of the gorgeous parks overlooking the Santa Sofia beach. Her employer and friend Olaya Solis has promised to provide a wall of bread that’s going to be as beautiful and creative (and social media-worthy!) as it is functional, providing guests with…
I genuinely did not expect to fall in love with a culinary cozy that features a prominent real-life politician as a detecting foil for its fictional heroine, but here I am now, totally besotted with this quirky little mystery! Crash Robertson is a Vermont native who got the heck out of the Green Mountain State…
Kensington Books’ latest seasonal collection of culinary cozy novellas is perfect for curling up with a hot beverage and taking a much-needed holiday break! Carlene O’Connor’s Ireland-set tale opens the book and gives the collection its name. Fans of her Irish Village Mystery series will be thrilled to see familiar characters here. Our heroine, Siobhan…
Our heroine, Mac Almeida, and her fiancé, Tim, are getting married! In the lead-up to their New Year’s nuptials, they’re renovating the house that they’ll be living in as a married couple. The old Cape Cod cottage is comfortable but could use a little extra modernization. Mac is most excited at the prospect of installing…
Bailey King has been roped into helping with Harvest, Ohio’s first annual village-wide Thanksgiving celebration, with dinner seating both in the town square and in the church just beyond it. The formidable organizer, Margot Rawlings, has put Bailey in charge of desserts, a natural fit given the fact that she runs the now-famous Swissmen Sweets…
When Leila Khoury left her Vermont hometown to take a teaching job all the way down in Florida, the last thing she expected was to come home for the very worst of reasons: her own father’s funeral. Victor Khoury had been universally beloved in Sugar Ridge, or so Leila believed. Someone had certainly cared a…
