The Christmas holiday season is ramping up in South Lick, Indiana, and Robbie Jordan—owner-operator of the restaurant, country store, and B&B, Pans ‘N Pancakes—is busy trying to keep up with demand on all her business fronts. When a handsome young man comes in looking for her assistant, Danna Beedle, Robbie isn’t the only person shocked…
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,…
The second in the Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery series finds one of the book group’s own under suspicion of murder after a dinner party gone awry. Gin Malloy is the owner of Westham, Massachusetts’ titular taffy shop, so she naturally brings a box of candy with her as a hostess gift to a dinner…
Fall may only have just begun, but the crisp autumn air and ever-darkening sky are but a precursor to the next change: Winter, inevitably, drawing near. And, just as one season transitions to the next, soon pumpkin spice and apple cider will recede into the background as peppermint and hot chocolate reclaim their transient glory.…
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…
Murder on Cape Cod by Maddie Day is the first book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. Agatha Award-nominated, pseudonymous author Maddie Day—aka Edith Maxwell, acclaimed writer of short crime fiction and historical mysteries—is no stranger to the commission of felonies. The President of Sisters in Crime New England, she has written five…
Hurray, I was so pleased to hear that Edith Maxwell, author of one of my favorite historical mystery series, was coming out with a culinary cozy series as well. Written under the pseudonym Maddie Day, this debut novel is quite a treat! Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida is the mixed-race daughter of a Unitarian minister and his…
We’re partnering with Kensington Books to supply you with enough copies of Murder on Cape Cod for your entire book club! Don’t have a book club? Don’t worry, Maddie Day’s got you covered… If you like the idea of reading the same book as a group of friends and talking about it over refreshments, a…
Criminal Element’s July 2018 Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List! Week of July 1 through July 7 Title Author Series Date The Corpse at the Crystal Palace Carola Dunn Daisy Dalrymple Mystery #23 7/3 Dyeing Up Loose Ends Maggie Sefton Knitting Mystery #16 7/3 Scandal Above Stairs Jennifer Ashley Below Stairs Mystery #2 7/3 Killer Green…
