Parker Valentine is about to realize her dream of opening her own winery in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado. Sure her parents don’t seem enthused enough to drop in on opening day, but at least her brother Liam and his good-looking friend Reid Wallace are there to show their support—along with a decent-sized crowd of…
Eight months have passed since the events of the last installment of the Kebab Kitchen Mystery series, with nary a dead body in sight—to the relief of our heroine, Lucy Berberian. She’s had her hands full running her family’s Mediterranean restaurant, so everything else has been on the backburner, including looking for a new apartment…
The third in the Kebab Kitchen Mystery series is another page-turning culinary cozy, as summer festivities in Ocean Crest, New Jersey, are interrupted by murder. Our heroine, Lucy Berberian, is the manager of her family’s Mediterranean restaurant but has taken on the task of helping to organize the food and beverage portion of Ocean Crest’s…
Charlotte “Charlie” Cooke has been running the Bear Claw Diner in Elkview, Alaska, for over a year now after her mother, the diner’s original owner-operator, decided she wanted to retire and travel the world with her husband, Charlie’s dad. Now that Charlie’s settled into a good groove with both the diner and her cat—the delightfully…
The second installment of Julie Anne Lindsey’s Cider Shop Mystery series sees us back in bucolic Blossom Valley, West Virginia, where our heroine, Winnie Mae Montgomery, has successfully opened her dream cider store adjacent to her grandmother’s apple orchard. She’s recently expanded to hosting large events and is only too happy to be providing space,…
River Holloway is a caterer with a reputation for being able to find lost things, so when family friend Estelle Bolz calls begging her to find Estelle’s missing son, Chili, River readily accepts. Chili was like a brother to River growing up, but as she starts asking around their small Georgia community, she discovers that…
Hayley Powell is finally married to fellow reporter Bruce Linney, but the impromptu nature of their wedding means that they haven’t actually planned for what comes next. Even as they’re adjusting to living together in Hayley’s house and dealing with Bruce’s on-going allergic reaction to her cat Blueberry, they’re budgeting money and time off for…
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…
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…
Nell Valenti is running away almost as much as she’s running towards when she accepts the offer to help one of her culinary heroes, Chef Claudio Orlandini, turn his Tuscan kitchen into a farm-to-table cooking school. Leaving behind the East Coast and all the complications of her personal life, she figures she can get a…
