Lila Macapagal’s life, as she wryly notes in the opening sentences of this charming new culinary cozy series, has become a rom-com cliche. After moving from her small Illinois hometown of Shady Palms to Chicago for school, she fell in love with a guy who not only broke her heart but left her nearly unemployable…
The seventh book in the Knit & Nibble Mystery series finds the small town of Arborville, New Jersey, once more rocked by murder. Young, beautiful Jenny Miller is found strangled to death near her plot in the community garden. Most curiously, the murder weapon was a circular knitting needle, which immediately draws the attention of…
Sage Caplin is excited to make a reality out of her dream of running a coffee-brewing business! Together with her business partner, Harley, she’s opening Ground Rules, a food cart located in a popular area of Portland, Oregon, focusing on gourmet coffee drinks. Opening day finds her making a good go of it while getting…
As the proprietors of the Chocolate Moose—the best and only chocolate bakery in Eastport, Maine—Jake Tiptree and Ellie White are expected to enter and make a good showing in the town’s annual cookie baking contest. But the murder of local curmudgeon Alvin Carter proves a puzzle our two inveterate snoops cannot resist—especially when they have…
Wall Street whiz Lindsey Bakewell has abandoned her entire life in New York City following the discovery of her now-ex-fiancé, hot-shot restaurateur Jeffrey Plank, cheating on her with his pastry chef, Mia Long. In a moment of drunken self-pity, she decides to buy a dilapidated lighthouse in a Michigan town she has fond memories of…
Mia Carina is throwing herself into making a success of her family’s Belle View Banquet Manor, ostensibly because she wants to make sure her Mafia-connected dad stays on the straight and narrow. Annoyingly, certain friends and family members are starting to drop hints that she’s using work to avoid her lack of personal life. Ignoring…
The latest in Joanne Fluke’s long-running Hannah Swensen Mystery series finds Mayor Richard Bascomb himself murdered—and Hannah’s younger sister, Andrea, the prime suspect in his slaying. Mayor Bascomb had been pretty irritable in the days before his death. When Sheriff Bill Todd pulls the mayor’s nephew over for driving under the influence, the mayor gets…
Samantha Barnes’s life has just turned upside down. From being the head chef of a successful restaurant in New York City working alongside her bad-boy chef husband, Stefan, she’s suddenly unemployed and divorced after a volatile, violent argument the two have outside their apartment one evening is recorded by a passerby. The video hits the…
I honestly don’t know how Barbara Ross does it, writing such a terrific cozy culinary mystery series filled with consistently intriguing puzzles and fresh social dynamics for our heroine, Julia Snowden, to navigate as she solves crimes while trying to run her businesses. Tourist season in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, is about to get underway, so…
Winemaker Parker Valentine doesn’t believe that meeting her boyfriend’s family for the first time could possibly end up a total disaster, but she’s about to be unpleasantly surprised. Nevermind that her boyfriend, Chef Reid Wallace, warned her that he’s estranged from his family for good reason. She just hadn’t expected his parents to be quite…
