Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant
Lindsey prefers to keep her bakeshop’s Halloween decor light and autumnal rather than gruesome and ghoulish. But everyone knows her lighthouse home is haunted. Some intrepid teens have even tried …
Category: Culinary
Books in which the main basis is about food, or in a food related setting such as a coffee shop, bakery or restaurant.
Death of a Clam Digger
Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell usually reserves judgment for local cuisine, especially anything with clams, not the people who serve it. But staying neutral isn’t so easy when caught …
Blueberry Blunder
Bailey King, star of TV’s Bailey’s Amish Sweets, is building her dream candy factory in Harvest, Ohio. But no sooner is the frame of the new building up than she …
Cinnamon Twisted
An ordinary late-spring afternoon for Deputy Donut Cafe owner Emily Westhill becomes one that will remain baked into her memory. When a customer gives Emily’s cat, Dep, a toy donut, …
Six Sweets Under
Former actress Becca Ransom lived her dream in Hollywood for seven years before returning to her hometown of Larch Haven, known as the Venice of North America. The Vermont town …
Murder at an Irish Bakery
In Kilbane, opinions are plentiful and rarely in alignment. But there’s one thing everyone does agree on, the bakery in the old flour mill, just outside town, is the best …
Four Leaf Cleaver
There’s no mistaking Saint Patrick’s Day at Pans ’N Pancakes. Robbie may only be Irish by marriage to Abe O’Neill, but the shelves of vintage cookware in her southern Indiana …
Through the Liquor Glass
Autumn brings a wonderland of color and atmosphere to Vermont. As the last leaves fall from the trees, the town is gearing up for a new festival: A Taste of …
Bread Over Troubled Water
A regular who used Yeast of Eden as a workspace, Josh Prentiss always turned heads with his startlingly good looks and a thousand-watt smile. But Ivy can’t help noticing one …
Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder
When Maddy Montgomery’s groom is a no-show to their live stream wedding, it’s a disaster that no amount of filtering can fix. But a surprise inheritance offers a chance to …
Peanut Butter Panic
Thanksgiving is Bailey King’s busiest holiday weekend. This year promises to be even more hectic since Bailey’s candy shop, Swissmen Sweets, is providing peanut desserts and more for Harvest, Ohio’s …
Death of an Ice Cream Scooper
Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell doesn’t know what to believe when Lydia Partridge, the put-together owner of gourmet Bar Harbor Ice Cream, suddenly reveals fears that her husband may …
Murder Spills the Tea
The country’s hottest TV cooking show is coming to Cape Cod. And against her better judgment, Lily Roberts is entering America Bakes! With her charming tearoom, Tea by the Sea! …
Murder at the Blueberry Festival
After a career on Wall Street, Lindsey is making a different kind of dough in a pretty lakeside village. The upcoming blueberry festival, including the pie-eating contest her bakery is …
A Catered Doggie Wedding
At A Little Taste of Heaven, Bernie and Libby Simmons cater all sorts of affairs, from book clubs to bridal showers and everything in between. So when their counterman, Googie, …
Peppermint Barked
As the holiday season lights up Seattle’s famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece’s beloved Spice Shop is brimming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and shoppers eager to stuff their stockings. Add to …
A Midsummer Night’s Fudge
During the Midsummer Night’s celebration, Allie decides to take her bichonpoo, Mal, home to spare her furry little ears from the sounds of fireworks. But on her way back, Allie …
The Diva Says Cheesecake!
Old Town’s midsummer festival is getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, …
Put Out to Pasture
Shiloh Bellamy has saved her family’s farm from financial ruin, but now what? She’s barely scraping by on the farm’s new organic business model, and the fall festival she organized …
Batter Off Dead
Robbie and her new husband, Abe O’Neill, are enjoying a summer evening in the park with fellow townsfolk, excited for some Friday night fireworks. In attendance are senior residents from …
Antique Auctions Are Murder
It’s peak summer season at the Butterfly House Bed and Breakfast in Cape May, with tourists fluttering in and out and wreaking enough havoc to rival a Jersey Shore hurricane. …
A Fatal Glow
Recently widowed Odessa Jones is sure the exclusive brunch catering job she’s scored from wealthy businessman Casey Osborne will propel her catering career into the big leagues. So when Dessa’s …
