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Ellie Alexander

Book Review: Bake, Borrow, and Steal by Ellie Alexander

By Doreen Sheridan

January 7, 2022

Ashland, Oregon is all aflutter with the upcoming debut of a long-lost Shakespeare manuscript, set to be unveiled at a gala held by the local Southern Oregon Museum of Art. Director Javier de la Garza has contacted our heroine, Juliet Montague Capshaw (Jules, for short) to see whether her bakery-cafe Torte will cater the festivities…

Ellie Alexander’s 12 Days of Cozy Bakes: Lime Mint Cupcakes

By Ellie Alexander

December 11, 2020

With the many challenges we have faced this year, I wanted to share something special this holiday season. After much thought and consideration as well as a fortuitous email from a reader requesting a recipe that never made it into a book, I came up with a plan to share 12 Days of Cozy Bakes.…

Without a Brew by Ellie Alexander: Featured Excerpt

By Crime HQ

October 8, 2020

Chapter 1   A BITING JANUARY WIND BLEW into the taproom as the front door to Nitro opened and a group of skiers traipsed inside. They were loaded down with gear—expensive puffy parkas in an array of bright colors, ski goggles, boots, and poles. A slightly overweight guy with a pinched face and an entitled…

Once Upon a Crime: “Sweet Voodoo Magic”

By Crime HQ

August 20, 2020

We teamed up with five cozy mystery writers to create a short story in real-time. The end result was “Sweet Voodoo Magic” which you can read in full below! A special thank you goes out to the participating authors (in order of appearance): Hannah Dennison, S.C. Perkins, Donna Andrews, Diane Kelly, and Ellie Alexander. The…

Cozy Mystery Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

April 13, 2020

Start your spring reading with six cozy mysteries! Enter below for a chance to win: one ARC of Lineage Most Lethal by S.C. Perkins one mass market paperback copy of Hems & Homicide by Elizabeth Penny one mass market paperback copy of Egg Drop Dead by Vivien Chien one hardcover copy of The Stolen Letter…

Five Murderous Baking Trends

By Ellie Alexander

October 10, 2019

I’m constantly on the hunt for interesting baking trends to work into my mystery series. I want readers to feel fully immersed in the sensory world of an artisan kitchen when they step into the pages of my books. I want you to be able to smell herbaceous rosemary flatbread charring in a wood-fired oven,…

Live and Let Pie by Ellie Alexander: A Visual Guide

By Adam Wagner

November 21, 2018

Life is sweet once you step into Torte, everybody’s favorite small-town bakeshop. But what happens when it becomes the scene of a crime? Take a visual tour of Ellie Alexander’s ninth Bakeshop Mystery, Live and Let Pie! The heat is on for pastry chef, family business operator, and unlikely sleuth Jules Capshaw. Just when she thought…

5 New Books to Read this Week: October 2, 2018

By Crime HQ

October 3, 2018

Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, M. C. Beaton’s 29th Agatha Raisin Mystery combines with Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker’s Dracula prequel, Dracul, to make for a killer week…

Review: The Pint of No Return by Ellie Alexander

By Hope C. Tarr

October 3, 2018

The Pint of No Return marks the second installment in Ellie Alexander’s Sloan Krause Mystery series and returns readers to Leavenworth, Washington, aka “Beervaria,” where craft brewer and amateur crime sleuth Sloan Krause is drawn into helping solve another murder, that of an obnoxious beer film documentary host who turns up dead on Oktoberfest eve.…

5 of the Most Heinous Criminal Acts Against Beer

By Ellie Alexander

October 1, 2018

It’s fall, also known as beer season. As crisp leaves turn golden yellow, this is the time of year to pour yourself a gorgeous hoppy pint as you cheer on your favorite football team or pull on your lederhosen and hit Oktoberfest for a selection of the best craft beer in the world. However, while…

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