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Pie Town Mystery series

Cooking the Books: Pie Hard by Kirsten Weiss

By Doreen Sheridan

January 5, 2022

Pieshop owner Val Harris is in for a big surprise when her sprightly octogenarian piecrust maker and landlady, Charlene McCree, forgets to tell her that the bluff her minihouse rental stands on is also the site of an annual Goddess Girls gathering. As a giant yurt and other amenities are thrown up right outside Val’s…

Cooking the Books: Bleeding Tarts by Kirsten Weiss

By Doreen Sheridan

December 22, 2021

With the reputation of Val Harris’s Pie Town bakery restored after the events of the first book in the series, our heroine is looking to expand operations somewhat, especially after hiring more staff. She’s thrilled when Ewan Frith, the wealthy owner of the nearby Bar X, contacts her about supplying pies for an event that…

Cooking the Books: The Quiche and the Dead by Kirsten Weiss

By Doreen Sheridan

December 15, 2021

The first book in this delightfully kooky culinary cozy mystery series finds our heroine, Val Harris, trying to sell off her wedding dress after her engagement implodes. Now she’s stuck in the  Northern California small town of San Nicholas, having poured all her savings into opening her beloved pie bakery, Pie Town, back when she…

Cooking the Books: Gourd to Death by Kirsten Weiss

By Doreen Sheridan

October 28, 2020

What better way to gear up for Halloween than with a culinary cozy mystery that amps up the spooky? Things have always been a little kooky in San Nicholas, California, especially given that pie-maker Val Harris’s best friend is the elderly if sprightly Charlene McCree, a woman who firmly believes that a local pastor is…

Cooking the Books: Pies Before Guys by Kirsten Weiss

By Doreen Sheridan

April 1, 2020

Val Harris is a great boss, but even she’s beginning to reconsider her generosity in allowing Abril Rodriguez, one of her employees, to host a poetry slam at their pie shop. The poets are only moderately entertaining, even with the literal saber-rattling antics of the last performer, Abril’s English professor, Michael Starke. In fact, the…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: April 2018

By Crime HQ

March 15, 2018

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we welcomed spring with great March cozies; this month, April showers bring awesome reads! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Like this shopping…

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