Christmas is coming to Harvest, Ohio, and celebrity candy maker Bailey King is up to her ears in work. She’s glad for it, though, as the holidays are traditionally some of her most profitable times of the year. With the recent opening of her candy factory, she’s more than happy to put in the effort…
I missed Joanne Fluke’s Lake Eden Cookbook when it was first published, but I’m so glad I was able to get my hands on this newly released updated edition! From the foiled cover to the delightful map of our heroine Hannah Swensen’s hometown printed on the endpapers, this volume is a collector’s dream. And fret…
Lindsey Bakewell is excited by her best friend Kennedy Kapoor’s latest marketing scheme for her Beacon Bakeshop, located in a historic lighthouse on the banks of Lake Michigan. The social media influencer has learned that British celebrity chef Vivi Lemonberry is looking to launch a comeback with her new book, Nibbles From Across The Pond,…
The evocatively named Allie Catt is used to rising above her circumstances. Whether it’s her indifferent parents’ absurd choice of name for their only child or the heartbreaking end of her engagement, Allie has grown to be the kind of twenty-something woman who learns from adversity and shapes herself into someone stronger, wiser, and, most…
Cafe owner Lila Macapagal is excited to participate in her hometown of Shady Palms’ thirty-fifth annual Corn Festival. She and her business partners Adeena Awan and Elena Torres have been busy cooking up various beverages and baked goods that feature corn, to be offered at the booth they’ve set up for the festival. Their wares…
Leila Khoury’s life has certainly changed considerably–and for the better–since returning home to Sugar Ridge to take over her family’s maple syrup farm following her father’s untimely death. Since apprehending her father’s murderer and falling in love, she’s felt more and more comfortable living at home again in Vermont with her mother, Selma; and their…
This fourth installment of the Deep Dish Mystery series is my favorite yet–and likely my favorite culinary cozy of the year so far! Delilah O’Leary has come a long way since first opening her gourmet pizza restaurant in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin. Once an uptight control freak hanging onto a relationship with a great guy she…
I do love a tightly-paced, twisty culinary cozy mystery, and the fifth installment of the Cheese Shop Mystery series delivers exactly that! Now that she’s more solidly established her Curds & Whey cheese shop in the Sonoma Valley town of Yarrow Glen, cheesemonger Willa Bauer is ready to fully participate in the Dairy Days festival…
As soon as I had a chance to slip this science-fiction homage to the classic mystery The Thin Man into my work schedule, reader, I took it! It’s the year 2075, and interplanetary travel has become so de rigueur that cruises between Earth, the Lunar Colony, and Mars are a common–if still fairly expensive–vacation option.…
The only mystery that baker Poppy McAllister is interested in solving this holiday season is the one regarding the engagement ring in a velvet box that was left at her Butterfly Wings bed and breakfast over Thanksgiving. None of the men in the lives of herself or her nearest and dearest have owned up to…
