The fog is rolling in on Charleston, South Carolina, on the fateful evening that Theodosia Browning decides to take a shortcut while walking to the tea shop she owns. Her path leads her through St. Philip’s Graveyard—the kind of place guaranteed to spook the faint of heart—but Theo, fortunately, doesn’t believe in ghostly menaces. Unfortunately,…
Carly Hale is looking forward to the cooling weather of fall, especially after the tumultuous and literally murderous events of the long, hot summer draw to a close. All she wants to do now is focus on her grilled cheese restaurant and, perhaps, win her Vermont town of Balsam Dell’s annual Halloween Scary-Licious Smorgasbord competition.…
Yale Yee lives an unusual life for a modern 30-year-old. Eschewing cell phone, personal computer, or car, she works in a bookstore near where she lives and pines for the simpler days of old—at least until her bosses can no longer afford to keep employing her. With ample free time now, she reluctantly agrees to…
Sarah Blair is a little skeptical when her mother—who insists on being called Maybelle even by her own daughters—enters a reality TV show competition for Southern Belle brides to be. Her eyebrows rise even further when Maybelle tells her that she’s needed on set as her mother’s chaperone, in the grand Southern tradition of decorous,…
Hattie Hayes is excited about the upcoming Chattanooga Choo Choo Model Train Convention, mostly due to her striking a deal with the organizers to host a mixer featuring liquor from her own Moonshine Shack. She and her Granddaddy, who taught her everything she knows about making moonshine, can’t help but get caught up in the…
Oh wow, I can’t believe it’s been 10 books (and several novellas!) in this series already! Muddled Through fast forwards almost a year from the end of the last book, with Julia Snowden still picking up the pieces after the end of her relationship with Chris Durand. They’d both agreed that it would be too…
Amy Pershing really hits her stride in this, the third book of the Cape Cod Foodie Mystery series. Our heroine is Samantha Barnes, a former NYC chef with an unfortunate penchant for viral online notoriety. Nowadays, she lives a quieter life on the Massachusetts coast, writing a food column and doing video segments as the…
Whether she’s writing under her own name or under the nom de plume Maria diRico, I love Ellen Byron’s culinary cozies. With her latest mystery series, she takes us back to her beloved Louisiana with our heroine, the New Orleans-born but Los Angeles-raised Miracle “Ricki” Jones-Diaz. Ricki was abandoned shortly after birth but was swiftly…
Our heroine, Sophie Winston, is Old Town Alexandria’s resident domestic diva—or one of them anyway. With the upcoming midsummer season, she’s busy organizing a waterfront dinner for another local notable, Queen of Cheesecake Bobbie Sue Bodoin. The dinner is set to take place on the same night as a spectacular fireworks display, a midnight run…
The eighth book in the Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery series may be the most heartwarming yet, even with murder marring the proceedings! It starts out with our heroine, tea house proprietor Daisy Swanson, looking for the perfect birthday gift for her boyfriend, Jonas Groft. Her efforts lead her to the statuary business of Wilhelm Rumple,…
