The latest cooking competition that our heroine, Sherry Oliveri, has entered comes with a unique but helpful twist. She’s allowed a sous chef, and who more fun to spend time with than her younger brother, Pep, who has only recently blown back into town after years of a rather peripatetic lifestyle. Pep is pretty cagey…
The fourth installment of the Knit & Nibble Mystery series came out right as the pandemic took hold here stateside, and I got a little lost in all the chaos. Fortunately, I was able to catch up with my favorite introverted cozy culinary sleuth before the latest book comes out later this month! It’s another…
There’s a new food truck in town, much to the delight of our food columnist heroine, Hayley Powell, and the chagrin of Cloris Fennow, owner of the only other food truck in Bar Harbor, Maine. While the burgers Cloris serves out of Burger She Wrote are of varying quality, her attitude towards her customers leaves…
I truly love the Mahalia Watkins Soul Food Mystery series—and not just because it’s set a county over from mine in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The fourth installment of this charming culinary cozy series sees our 40-something restaurateur heroine offered a chance to judge an episode of the hit cooking competition show Elite Chef. After…
I love a proper afternoon tea service, but since I haven’t been able to attend one in ages (thanks, pandemic), reading Vicki Delany’s Tea & Treachery while sipping on a cream tea and nibbling on cake was a delightfully atmospheric substitute. Bonus: I got to vicariously enjoy the Cape Cod seaside and solve a murder…
The second book in the Knit & Nibble Mystery series opens with Arborfest, the New Jersey town of Arborville’s annual celebration of civic pride. Our heroine, Pamela Paterson, and the knitting club she founded have set up a booth to sell knitted aardvarks, the local high school mascot, with proceeds going to help fund Arborville…
This first novel of the Knit and Nibble Mystery series introduces us to Pamela Paterson, the widowed associate editor of a fiber arts magazine who mostly works from the home where she now lives alone since her only daughter went off to college. Pamela enjoys living quietly in the small town of Arborville, New Jersey,…
Courtney Kelly believes in fairies, so much so that she’s struck out from under the wing of her disapproving father’s landscaping business in order to open a fairy-garden tea room in their seaside town of Carmel, California. In addition to serving teas, Open Your Imagination sells everything you need to build your own fairy garden…
Robbie Jordan is leaving South Lick, Indiana, for a week to attend her 10th high school reunion. Traveling back to Santa Barbara is a bittersweet experience. While she’s glad to see most of her friends again and enjoy the balmy winter weather, she’s also reminded of her last visit home, two years ago. Her mother,…
Bailey King is thrilled to be the maid of honor for the wedding of her boyfriend’s mother, Juliet Brody, to longtime beau, Reverend Simon Brook. Unfortunately, she can’t help worrying that the marshmallow-frosted cake that she and her team at Swissmen Sweets, her Amish candy shop, have spent so much time and effort working on…
