Charlotte “Charlie” Cooke has been running the Bear Claw Diner in Elkview, Alaska, for over a year now after her mother, the diner’s original owner-operator, decided she wanted to retire and travel the world with her husband, Charlie’s dad. Now that Charlie’s settled into a good groove with both the diner and her cat—the delightfully…
The second installment of Julie Anne Lindsey’s Cider Shop Mystery series sees us back in bucolic Blossom Valley, West Virginia, where our heroine, Winnie Mae Montgomery, has successfully opened her dream cider store adjacent to her grandmother’s apple orchard. She’s recently expanded to hosting large events and is only too happy to be providing space,…
River Holloway is a caterer with a reputation for being able to find lost things, so when family friend Estelle Bolz calls begging her to find Estelle’s missing son, Chili, River readily accepts. Chili was like a brother to River growing up, but as she starts asking around their small Georgia community, she discovers that…
Hayley Powell is finally married to fellow reporter Bruce Linney, but the impromptu nature of their wedding means that they haven’t actually planned for what comes next. Even as they’re adjusting to living together in Hayley’s house and dealing with Bruce’s on-going allergic reaction to her cat Blueberry, they’re budgeting money and time off for…
The second in the Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery series finds one of the book group’s own under suspicion of murder after a dinner party gone awry. Gin Malloy is the owner of Westham, Massachusetts’ titular taffy shop, so she naturally brings a box of candy with her as a hostess gift to a dinner…
Val Harris is a great boss, but even she’s beginning to reconsider her generosity in allowing Abril Rodriguez, one of her employees, to host a poetry slam at their pie shop. The poets are only moderately entertaining, even with the literal saber-rattling antics of the last performer, Abril’s English professor, Michael Starke. In fact, the…
Nell Valenti is running away almost as much as she’s running towards when she accepts the offer to help one of her culinary heroes, Chef Claudio Orlandini, turn his Tuscan kitchen into a farm-to-table cooking school. Leaving behind the East Coast and all the complications of her personal life, she figures she can get a…
I knew that I was in for a treat when award-winning author Ellen Byron debuted a brand new culinary cozy mystery series under the pen name Maria DiRico. I was so pleased when Here Comes the Body proceeded to exceed my every expectation—even given how much I already enjoy her Cajun Country Mystery novels! This…
It’s so hard for me to explain how invested I am in the Hannah Swensen mystery series. It’s certainly not just because I’ve read (and cooked my way through!) all 25 books to date, with each volume containing enough recipes to fill out a small cookbook. While the recipes have been consistently good—with only a…
The island village of Eastport, Maine, is in the throes of its annual Pirate Festival, and bakeshop owners Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and Ellie White are fully prepared to take advantage of increased visitor traffic to turn a profit selling delicious chocolate baked goods. What they’re not prepared for are the attentions of pushy podcaster Henry…
