I truly love the Mahalia Watkins Soul Food Mystery series—and not just because it’s set a county over from mine in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The fourth installment of this charming culinary cozy series sees our 40-something restaurateur heroine offered a chance to judge an episode of the hit cooking competition show Elite Chef. After…
I love a proper afternoon tea service, but since I haven’t been able to attend one in ages (thanks, pandemic), reading Vicki Delany’s Tea & Treachery while sipping on a cream tea and nibbling on cake was a delightfully atmospheric substitute. Bonus: I got to vicariously enjoy the Cape Cod seaside and solve a murder…
The second book in the Knit & Nibble Mystery series opens with Arborfest, the New Jersey town of Arborville’s annual celebration of civic pride. Our heroine, Pamela Paterson, and the knitting club she founded have set up a booth to sell knitted aardvarks, the local high school mascot, with proceeds going to help fund Arborville…
This first novel of the Knit and Nibble Mystery series introduces us to Pamela Paterson, the widowed associate editor of a fiber arts magazine who mostly works from the home where she now lives alone since her only daughter went off to college. Pamela enjoys living quietly in the small town of Arborville, New Jersey,…
Courtney Kelly believes in fairies, so much so that she’s struck out from under the wing of her disapproving father’s landscaping business in order to open a fairy-garden tea room in their seaside town of Carmel, California. In addition to serving teas, Open Your Imagination sells everything you need to build your own fairy garden…
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,…
Bailey King is thrilled to be the maid of honor for the wedding of her boyfriend’s mother, Juliet Brody, to longtime beau, Reverend Simon Brook. Unfortunately, she can’t help worrying that the marshmallow-frosted cake that she and her team at Swissmen Sweets, her Amish candy shop, have spent so much time and effort working on…
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…
Krista Davis adds an entirely new twist to her entertaining series revolving around rival domestic divas in Old Town Alexandria, introducing espionage to the culinary cozy proceedings! Spies are the last thing on our heroine Sophie Winston’s mind when she accepts a ghostwriting gig as a favor for her ex-husband, Mars. Former actress Tilly Stratford…
As Thanksgiving approaches, Daisy Swanson is eagerly anticipating the birth of her first grandchild. Since she doesn’t want to stress out the expectant mom—her oldest daughter, Violet—she’s keeping busy with work at her tea garden in Pennsylvania’s Amish country. While tourist season is coming to a close, Daisy has plans to keep her business in…
