Country store and B&B owner Robbie Jordan is savoring newlywed life with Abe O’Neill, her husband of six weeks, despite the sultry summer weather. The heat is almost but not quite enough to mar their latest visit to Jupiter Park to watch the weekly fireworks display put on by their patriotic South Lick, Indiana, town.…
The eighth book of the Knit & Nibble Mystery series finds our heroine, Pamela Paterson, looking forward to enjoying the fruits of her labor at nearby Wendelstaff College’s fiber arts conference. She’s successfully convinced the magazine she works for to sponsor a knitting bee to be held all weekend at Sufficiency House, a historic home…
Casey Feldstein is looking forward to hosting her latest yarn retreat at the Vista Del Mar resort across the street from her Cadbury, California, home. Several members of her latest group have specifically requested the secluded resort for her low-key, fiber-arts-focused getaway, and she’s happy to be able to accommodate them. Unfortunately, resort manager Kevin…
Life is certainly seeming far more profitable nowadays for Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck after getting their property-flipping business up and running, with several successful projects under their tool belts. Their latest project presents an interesting new challenge though. The abandoned church and parsonage they’ve just purchased have good bones but seem pretty far…
One thing I really appreciate about the heroine of the Odessa Jones Mystery series is how different she is from so many other culinary cozy protagonists. While food is her passion, the process of actually catering it—especially as a second job—takes a lot out of her. This isn’t the only realistic thing about our heroine;…
It seems like the entire town of Lake Eden is doing its best to help make the inaugural Walleye Fishing Tournament a success. Hosted by sporting goods mogul and Minnesota legend Wally Wallace, the tournament is bringing a lot of traffic into the area—and filling up the Lake Eden Inn in the process. When the…
Lila Macapagal is fine, which is what she tells everyone who asks her how she’s doing in the aftermath of the events that rocked her small town of Shady Pines, Illinois, just a few short months ago. Her ex-boyfriend was killed, her family was under suspicion of his murder, and she and her best friend,…
As a librarian and bibliophile, septuagenarian Cleo Watkins could not be more proud of her book dealer beau Henry Lafayette for bringing the Georgia Antiquarian Book Society Fair to their small southern town of Catalpa Springs. Her main concern now that the fair is underway is in making sure that she doesn’t spend too much…
When the Catalpa Springs library suffers severe storm damage, septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins consoles herself with the thought that at least she can still distribute books to the residents of her Georgia town via the bus they’d recently converted to a bookmobile. Never mind that Mayor Jeb Day seems more eager to shut down the…
In the 19th installment of the consistently terrific Coffeehouse Mystery series, an unexpected swarm of bees leads to coffee master roaster Clare Cosi rescuing a good friend of her beloved mother-in-law’s and foiling a drug ring in the process. When bees invade the Village Blend one chilly fall evening, the last thing Clare expects is…
