Amy Pershing really hits her stride in this, the third book of the Cape Cod Foodie Mystery series. Our heroine is Samantha Barnes, a former NYC chef with an unfortunate penchant for viral online notoriety. Nowadays, she lives a quieter life on the Massachusetts coast, writing a food column and doing video segments as the…
Whether she’s writing under her own name or under the nom de plume Maria diRico, I love Ellen Byron’s culinary cozies. With her latest mystery series, she takes us back to her beloved Louisiana with our heroine, the New Orleans-born but Los Angeles-raised Miracle “Ricki” Jones-Diaz. Ricki was abandoned shortly after birth but was swiftly…
Our heroine, Sophie Winston, is Old Town Alexandria’s resident domestic diva—or one of them anyway. With the upcoming midsummer season, she’s busy organizing a waterfront dinner for another local notable, Queen of Cheesecake Bobbie Sue Bodoin. The dinner is set to take place on the same night as a spectacular fireworks display, a midnight run…
The eighth book in the Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery series may be the most heartwarming yet, even with murder marring the proceedings! It starts out with our heroine, tea house proprietor Daisy Swanson, looking for the perfect birthday gift for her boyfriend, Jonas Groft. Her efforts lead her to the statuary business of Wilhelm Rumple,…
Trinidad Jones finally feels like she’s settling into life in the small East Oregon town of Upper Sprocket, especially now that the ice cream shop that is her pride and joy has been rebuilt and is back in business. It helps that she has the close friendship and support of her ex-husband’s two other ex-wives—the…
Sage Caplin is taking her Ground Rules coffee truck on the road! Or at least to Campathon, an annual eco-friendly music festival held on a farm just outside of Portland, Oregon. She’s hoping that being the only coffee vendor at the festival will help recoup the cost of buying a second truck, as her first…
Lee Barrett, program director of Salem, Massachusetts’ WICH-TV, is excited to finally be marrying her fiancé, Detective Pete Mondello. In the lead-up to their wedding, they’ve been house hunting for the perfect place in which to start married life. One important consideration for their prospective new home is proximity to where Lee currently lives in…
Jenna Hart is about to get married! But so, too, are the flocks of women who’ve descended on her small town of Crystal Cove, California, for the Bride’s Dream Expo. As proprietor of the Cookbook Nook, this is the perfect opportunity for her to feature plenty of wedding-themed wares in hopes of cashing in on…
Mia Malone is thinking of ways to expand her catering and cooking school business when an unexpected opportunity falls into her lap. Her young assistant, Christina Adams, has been roped into being a bridesmaid for a woman she barely knows. Serendipitously or otherwise, the father of the bride has also recently fired the wedding planner…
Buckle up, fans of the Death by Chocolate series, it’s going to be a bumpy night! Jake Tiptree and Ellie White are dazzled when movie star Ingrid Merryfield steps into their Chocolate Moose Bakery one evening, interrupting their discussion over whether to keep their somewhat out-of-the-way store open for the winter. Ingrid has just bought…
