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Wendy Sand Eckel

Cooking the Books: Death at the Day Lily Cafe by Wendy Sand Eckel

By Doreen Sheridan

July 27, 2016

What a delightfully thoughtful cozy mystery!  Our heroine, Rosalie Hart, has just achieved her lifelong dream of opening an organic, locally sourced cafe that uses produce grown on her nearby farm, Barclay Meadow. Staffed by herself, her best friend Glenn, herbal remedy enthusiast Crystal, and bad-boy cook Custer, the Day Lily Cafe is getting itself…

5 New Books to Read this Week: July 26, 2016

By Crime HQ

July 27, 2016

Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! Check back every Wednesday and see what we're reading for the week!

Death at the Day Lily Cafe by Wendy Sand Eckel

Death at the Day Lily Cafe : New Excerpt

By Wendy Sand Eckel

July 18, 2016

Death at the Day Lily Cafe by Wendy Sand Eckel is the 2nd book in the Rosalie Hart Series (Available July 26, 2016). Rosalie Hart has finally opened  the café of her dreams. Decked out with ochre-tinted walls and stuffed with delicious organic fare, the Day Lily Café is everything Rosalie could have hoped for. But…

Murder at Barclay Meadow: New Excerpt

By Wendy Sand Eckel

July 24, 2015

Murder at Barclay Meadow is the debut mystery by Wendy Sand Eckel where Rosalie Hart returns home to her aunt's farmhouse and quickly stumbles upon a body (available July 28, 2015). Rosalie Hart's world has been upended. After her husband confesses to an affair, she exiles herself to her late aunt's farmhouse on Maryland's Eastern…

Now Win This!: Shadow Lurker Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

July 21, 2015

You can't run from what you don't see coming, so I'd avoid that dark alley if I were you, or you just might find yourself face-to-face with these nine nefarious books! Click here to enter for a chance to win! This is NOT a Comments Sweepstakes. You must click the link above to enter. NO…

Cozy Bookshelf Shopping List: July, 2015

By Crime HQ

June 16, 2015

Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! We kept rolling off last month with June's releases, and now we're setting our sights on July! Let us know in the comments how you like it and what you can't wait to read next! Criminal Element's…

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