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Marygene Brown Mystery Series

Cooking the Books: Southern Sass and a Battered Bride by Kate Young

By Doreen Sheridan

May 19, 2021

Marygene Brown’s ex is getting married! In a fit of sadism, his fiancee, Lucy Carmichael, has hired Marygene’s diner to cater her murder-mystery-themed wedding banquet. Alex Myers is more than just an ex-boyfriend, though; Marygene is best friends and co-workers with his cousin Betsy, and Alex himself is a deputy to Marygene’s dad, Sheriff Eddie…

Cooking the Books: Southern Sass and a Crispy Corpse by Kate Young

By Doreen Sheridan

June 17, 2020

Just when Marygene Brown thinks she’s settling into life on Peach Cove Island, having successfully steadied the ship that is her family’s diner, she winds up swimming into a burned corpse while out skinny-dipping one fine summer morning. No one from the island has been reported missing, so her father, Sheriff Eddie Carter, is ready…

Cooking the Books: Southern Sass and Killer Cravings by Kate Young

By Doreen Sheridan

May 29, 2019

Marygene Brown is done with her life in Atlanta and especially with her abusive soon-to-be-ex-husband, Peter. Now, after an absence of several years, she’s returning home to Peach Cove Island to take up her role in the family business, helping to run the island’s beloved Peach Diner. Her family relations are still a bit fraught:…

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