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Maddie Day

Cooking the Books: Batter Off Dead by Maddie Day

By Doreen Sheridan

April 6, 2022

Country store and B&B owner Robbie Jordan is savoring newlywed life with Abe O’Neill, her husband of six weeks, despite the sultry summer weather. The heat is almost but not quite enough to mar their latest visit to Jupiter Park to watch the weekly fireworks display put on by their patriotic South Lick, Indiana, town.…

Cooking the Books: Murder at the Lobstah Shack by Maddie Day

By Doreen Sheridan

December 1, 2021

The third book of the Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery series starts out with a scene that could have been ripped from the pages of the very book our titular group of readers is currently enjoying (the very excellent Fogged In by one of my all-time favorite cozy writers, Barbara Ross, coincidentally). Our heroine, Mac…

Cooking the Books: No Grater Crime by Maddie Day

By Doreen Sheridan

September 8, 2021

It’s a lovely spring day when Robbie Jordan and her Aunt Adele go antiquing for finds to add to the country store portion of Robbie’s Pans ‘N Pancakes cafe. There’s a definite chill in the air, however, when they run into Francis and Hattie Sand, an older couple who still blame Adele for the death…

Cooking the Books: Candy Slain Murder by Maddie Day

By Doreen Sheridan

November 4, 2020

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…

Cooking the Books: Nacho Average Murder by Maddie Day

By Doreen Sheridan

July 1, 2020

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,…

Cooking the Books: Murder at the Taffy Shop by Maddie Day

By Doreen Sheridan

April 8, 2020

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…

Book Review: Christmas Cocoa Murder by Carlene O’Connor, Maddie Day, and Alex Erickson

By John Valeri

October 14, 2019

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.…

Cooking the Books: Strangled Eggs and Ham by Maddie Day

By Doreen Sheridan

June 26, 2019

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…

Cooking the Books: Flipped for Murder by Maddie Day

By Doreen Sheridan

June 19, 2019

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…

Book Review: Murder on Cape Cod by Maddie Day

By John Valeri

January 3, 2019

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…

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