Seventy-something-year-old librarian Cleo Watkins is too well-bred to have a nemesis, but if she did, it would probably be the irrepressible Dixie Honeycutt. For the past four decades, Cleo has been trying to get Dixie to return one very, very overdue book to the Catalpa Springs Public Library. But Dixie has outfoxed her at every…
Cupcake bakery owner Melanie Cooper has zero interest in attending her high school’s 15-year reunion, but her best friend and business partner, Angie Harper, is not above pulling every dirty trick in the book to not only get her to go but also to cater the affair. Mel was cruelly bullied in high school for…
Sherry Oliveri is on her way home to Augustin, Connecticut, from Florida where she’s won her latest culinary victory. Her “New England Crab Cake Sliders” were the winning entry for America’s Good Taste Recipe Contest, and she’s ready to kick back and relax from competitive cooking for a little while, focusing on her other preoccupations…
In book six of the Country Store Mystery series, heroine Robbie Jordan’s biggest headache seems to be keeping the peace between her customers over plans to build a resort on a nearby Indiana hilltop. While her Aunt Adele is excited about getting back to her radical past and leading illegal protests against the resort and…
It’s opening day for country store and restaurant Pans ‘N Pancakes, and owner Robbie Jordan is understandably nervous. Since moving from California to her mother’s hometown of South Lick, Indiana, she’s been driven to make a success of the business she’s practically built from scratch, hurdling all sorts of obstacles with aplomb. Now, with the…
Cat Latimer has her hands full preparing for the latest slate of authors to attend her Aspen Hills Warm Springs Resort monthly writers’ retreat. This bunch, a group of cozy mystery writers from Chicago, comes with their own set of interpersonal dramas, but Cat is used to handling such things with aplomb—especially with the help…
In this fifth book of the Pancake House mystery series, our heroine, Marley McKinney, is fully enjoying the life she’s building on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula. Her pancake house, The Flip Side, is thriving, and her domestic life is going even better than expected since her landscaper boyfriend, Brett, moved in. Her cat and his…
Marygene Brown is done with her life in Atlanta and especially with her abusive soon-to-be-ex-husband, Peter. Now, after an absence of several years, she’s returning home to Peach Cove Island to take up her role in the family business, helping to run the island’s beloved Peach Diner. Her family relations are still a bit fraught:…
In the ninth book of the Key West Food Critic mystery series, our heroine, Hayley Snow, is getting ready for her impending wedding to the man of her dreams, Detective Nathan Bransford. While this should be one of the most exciting times of their lives, very little is going to plan. For a start, though…
In this very first book of the Key West Food Critic Mystery series, our heroine, Hayley Snow, hasn’t yet acquired her dream job as a food critic but is very much enamored of her new home at the southern tip of Florida. She moved down to the island just a few months earlier to live…
