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Candy-Coated Mystery series

Cooking the Books: A Midsummer Night’s Fudge by Nancy Coco

By Doreen Sheridan

August 31, 2022

Tourist season is well underway on beautiful, historic Mackinac Island. Hotel and fudge shop owner Allie McMurphy is reveling in business prosperity and the romantic bliss of her steadily growing relationship with local police officer Rex Manning. The only thing she really needs to work on now, in her opinion, is improving her civic ties…

Cooking the Books: Here Comes the Fudge by Nancy Coco

By Doreen Sheridan

October 6, 2021

I can’t believe it’s already the ninth installment of the Candy Coated Mystery series! Our heroine, Allie McMurphy, is gearing up for her first full tourist season on Mackinac Island, now that she’s finally restored her family’s historic inn and fudge shop to its fully functioning glory. She’s also excited to be hosting upcoming wedding…

Cooking the Books: Have Yourself a Fudgy Little Christmas by Nancy Coco

By Doreen Sheridan

December 16, 2020

At the end of the previous book in the series, Fudge Bites, our heroine, fudge-maker Allie McMurphy, decided to turn down her ex-boyfriend Trent Jessop’s offer to winter in Chicago with full use of his commercial kitchen in favor of finally becoming an official year-round resident of Michigan’s Mackinac Island. She’s also planning on reopening…

Cooking the Books: Fudge Bites by Nancy Coco

By Doreen Sheridan

October 30, 2019

Allie McMurphy is looking forward to becoming an official year-round resident of Michigan’s charming Mackinac Island. With the tourist season drawing to a close, she’s planning on building a roof deck for the Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop that she runs in anticipation of an even busier season in the year to come. But…

Book Review: Fudge Bites by Nancy Coco

By Amber Keller

September 26, 2019

Halloween on Mackinac Island is a season of fun tricks in Fudge Bites, the newest mystery in the Candy-Coated mystery series from Nancy Coco, but finding a corpse is no treat for fudge shop owner Allie McMurphy . . . In this seventh installment of the Candy-Coated Mystery series murder and mayhem abound, along with…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: September 2018

By Crime HQ

August 16, 2018

Criminal Element’s September 2018 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! Week of September 1 through September 7 Title Author Series Date The Cats Came Back Sofie Kelly Magical Cats Mystery #10 9/4 Wuthering Kites Clover Tate Kite Shop Mystery #3 9/4 Mrs. Jeffries and the Three Wise Women Emily Brightwell Victorian Mystery #36 9/4 Merry Wrath Mysteries…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: July, 2016

By Crime HQ

June 15, 2016

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, the books kept getting hotter with June's releases; this month it's nothing but fireworks with all of July's titles! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to…

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