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Weekly Features

Cooking the Books: A Half-Baked Alibi by Devon Delaney

By Doreen Sheridan

April 13, 2022

Sherry Oliveri is feeling pretty down about a hand injury forcing her to withdraw from the Kitchen Royalty Cook-Off being held in her own hometown of Augustin, Connecticut. At least this gives her the opportunity to root on her good friend Amber Sherwin in the same competition. Despite the two having met as competitors in…

Cooking the Books: Batter Off Dead by Maddie Day

By Doreen Sheridan

April 6, 2022

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 Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth: A Visual Guide

By Adam Wagner

April 4, 2022

The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth is a wicked and winding novel of domestic suspense full of family secrets, betrayal, and the lies we tell to the people we love. Stephen Aston is getting married again.  The only problem is, he’s still married to his first wife…  Even though she is in a care facility…

Cooking the Books: Death of a Knit Wit by Peggy Ehrhart

By Doreen Sheridan

March 30, 2022

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…

Cooking the Books: But Knot for Me by Betty Hechtman

By Doreen Sheridan

March 23, 2022

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…

Cooking the Books: Batten Down the Belfry by Diane Kelly

By Doreen Sheridan

March 16, 2022

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…

Cooking the Books: A Fatal Glow by Valerie Wilson Wesley

By Doreen Sheridan

March 9, 2022

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;…

Cooking the Books: Caramel Pecan Roll Murder by Joanne Fluke

By Doreen Sheridan

March 2, 2022

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…

Cooking the Books: Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala

By Doreen Sheridan

February 23, 2022

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,…

Cooking the Books: Read or Alive by Nora Page

By Doreen Sheridan

February 16, 2022

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…

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