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…
Hayley Powell is in for the shock of her life when she accompanies one of her best friends, Mona Barnes, on what should be a routine-if-time-consuming errand. Mona’s dad, Bubba, has gone to his cabin in Bar Harbor, Maine, for an ice-fishing weekend. Unfortunately, he’s neglected to bring his heart medication with him. Mona’s mom,…
Kitchen witch Mia Malone is seriously thinking about quitting her day job as catering manager for the Lodge, the renowned local ski resort. She’d originally taken on the position when the Lodge decided to stop outsourcing its catering gigs to independent businesses like her own Mia’s Morsels, making it much harder to keep her small…
Lee Barrett Mondello has to wear a lot of hats in her work at Salem, Massachusetts’ WICH-TV. While she’s officially the television station’s program director, her boss, Bruce Doan, would be much happier if she would again take on the role of executive director of documentaries–especially with a big-budget movie currently in town. Night Magic,…
