Fudge and Jury is the 5th book in the Bakeshop Mystery series (Available January 3, 2017) Welcome to Torte—a friendly, small-town family bakery where the pastries are delicious…and, now, suspicious. It’s almost spring in Ashland, Oregon, and the town is preparing for the Shakespeare and the annual Chocolate Festival. Business is cookin’ at Torte, and…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, the holidays came early with some great December releases; this month, ring in the new year with January's cozies! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read…
GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. This week, it's all about chocolate … and murder. Take a visual tour of Ellie Alexander's 5th Bakeshop Mystery, Fudge and Jury, with GIFnotes!
We peppered Ellie Alexander, author of Caught Bread Handed, with some questions and she was gracious enough to spice up our blog with some delicious answers about her Bakeshop Mystery series, her recipes, and more! Torte is the bakeshop owned by the Capshaw family. Are there any real life bakeries that inspired Torte? Yes!…
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! Check back every Wednesday and see what we're reading for the week!
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, the books were just as nice as the weather with May's releases; this month it just keeps getting hotter with amazing June reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what…
On Thin Icing by Ellie Alexander is the 3rd in the A Bakeshop Mystery series where Jules Capshaw finds a dead body in the freezer of her bakery as her ex-husband just happens to show up and become the lead suspect (Available December 29, 2015). It's the dead of winter in the sleepy town of…
A Batter of Life and Death by Ellie Alexander is the second book in the Bakeshop Mystery series featuring baker Jules Capshaw in her hometown of Ashland, Oregon (available June 30, 2015). Reality TV meets cozy mystery, with a little bit of murder thrown in. The town of Ashland is known for its Oregon Shakespeare…
This was the perfect chance to re-launch Cooking the Books with our new CrimeHQ test kitchen staff—or so we thought. We had a bunch of recent, appealing crime-related recipes, but unfortunately, after assigning them, the feedback from our test crooks cooks was a little less constructive than we'd hoped. You'll see what we mean… After trying The…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! We kept rolling off last month with May's releases, and now we're setting our sights on June! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Criminal Element's…
