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…
Laura Childs’s latest Cackleberry Club Mystery starts off with a heart-pounding bang! Our heroine, Suzanne Dietz, is heading to the emergency room to drop off a thermos of chili con carne for her surgeon fiancé, Dr. Sam Hazelet. She’s just gotten to chatting with Ginny Harris, the nurse at admissions, when a loud commotion draws…
This debut novel in the Oregon Honeycomb Mystery series follows Wren Johnson, proprietor of the Let It Bee honey boutique in the coastal town of Oceanview, Oregon. Despite the odds, she’s managed to keep her store up and running for almost two years now with the help of her Aunt Eloise and her assistant, Porsche.…
Kitchen witch Mia Malone is settling down into life in Magic Springs, Idaho, with her beloved grandmother Mary Alice Carpenter and her almost-sister, Christina Adams—in actuality the vulnerable younger sibling of her good-for-nothing ex-fiance, Isaac. Mia is nearly ready to open her gourmet dinner business out of a former school turned into a takeaway cafe…
It’s only been a month or so since murder threatened to derail the fledgling Villa Orlandini cooking school, but school coordinator Nell Valenti is determined to put all that behind them and focus on making a success of their Tuscan farm-to-table concept. With the impending arrival of five American gastro-tourists for a culinary dissection of…
I’m so pleased to be able to kick off Black History Month in this column with an #OwnVoices culinary cozy mystery series debut! Dessa Jones is a 40-something widower who’s a little resentful that her familial gift of second sight—usually manifesting itself in glimmers or scents—didn’t foretell the sudden demise of her beloved husband, Darryl.…
Marley McKinney is looking forward to a winter getaway with Brett, her husband of three months, even if it’s only for a few days away in the next county over from her beloved seaside town of Wildwood Cove, Washington. Holly Lodge, the mountainside retreat they’ve booked themselves into, is everything she imagined and more: a…
When Daisy Swanson, tea garden proprietor, is asked to cater an appreciation tea for the teachers at the local high school, she doesn’t expect to be plunged into a morass of in-fighting, all seemingly revolving around the polarizing figure of Althea Higgins. Althea had been Daisy’s English teacher back in high school, and while Daisy…
The 16th installment of the Mystery with Recipes series finds the intrepid Simmons sisters wondering why a regular customer has forgotten to pick up her long-standing monthly order. Margo Hemsley is the kind of person who isn’t just punctual, she’s habitually early. Every month for the past five years, she’s ordered the same few items…
It’s just another busy Alaskan tourist season day at Charlie Cooke’s Bear Claw Diner until one of her guests abruptly starts choking at his table before falling over unconscious. Paramedics whisk young Ethan Johnson away to the nearest medical center, and a concerned Charlie drives there with his lunch date, Zoe, since only family members…
