Cafe owner Lila Macapagal is looking forward to welcoming spring with the annual Big Spring Clean event in her hometown of Shady Palms, Illinois. For an entire month, local businesses, including her Brew-ha Café, will be offering discounts to welcome warmer weather and, hopefully, customers new and old. Her own trio of godmothers—Ninang April, Ninang…
Hello again, dear readers! I am back from California with a treat for anyone who enjoys a tasty libation—whether alcoholic or otherwise—while paying homage to the Queen of Crime herself. This charming collection of 50 cocktails was inspired not only by Agatha Christie but by her characters and novels as well. Each drink comes with…
It seems like the whole town of Lake Eden, Minnesota, is in an uproar with the news that Detective Mike Kingston is thinking of quitting police work. Our heroine, Hannah Swensen, calls in the big guns to help her sort-of boyfriend Mike figure out what he really wants and feels. Top of her list is…
Part of the duties of owning a tea room involves purchasing new tea services when the old ones can no longer be used—a task that Lily Roberts approaches with glee. When she spots a Beatrix Potter-themed children’s tea set at an antiques fair, she can’t resist adding it to her shop’s collection. After all, she…
Lindsey Bakewell is perfectly happy with being the owner of a bakery located on the site of a haunted former lighthouse—most of the time anyway. While she’s come to terms with the resident ghost, the start of spooky season inspires several locals to prank the property where she both works and lives. The joke of…
The Leighton and Barnes families have had a long-standing rivalry over their respective seafood dynasties in Bar Harbor, Maine. So, our heroine, Hayley Powell, isn’t entirely surprised one morning to find one of her best friends, the brash Mona Barnes, engaged in a physical altercation with Vera, their peer and eldest daughter of the Leighton…
The real estate run of the pandemic years has been good to our heroine, Dessa Jones, who no longer has to struggle to sell houses in her part of New Jersey. With the increase in business, her boss, Tanya Risko, has decided to take on two new agents—both formerly of the high-flying Delbarton Estates agency.…
Tricia Miles is accompanying her sister Angelica on a tour of the latter’s latest property renovations when they shockingly discover the body of their contractor’s right-hand man, Sanjay Arya, bludgeoned to death in the mansion’s pantry. They immediately call it in to the cops and are nonplussed at the professional—if not outright personable—reaction they get…
Summer has returned to Busman’s Harbor—and with it, the Snowden Family Clambake. The Snowdens themselves have finally moved into their restored and refurbished lodgings on Morrow Island, where they host two daily seatings for the traditional Maine meal. Our heroine, Julia Snowden, is looking forward to another busy-if-brutal season of serving seafood to literal boatloads…
CIA librarian turned ice cream shop owner Riley Rhodes is having a busy Halloween season, coinciding with her October 31st date of birth. While she and her family are used to postponing her birthday celebrations so that they can honor each occasion separately, someone else in her Connecticut town is intent on combining the date…
