Baking Cozy Mystery

Forty-something Maggie Sharpe is returning to her quaint childhood town of Dogwood Mountain, Missouri, nestled in the beautiful Ozark Mountains, Maggie recently inherited Dogwood Bakery, along with a cute little cottage, from her aunt Marjorie. With a son in the Navy, deployed six months at a time, and an ex in Kansas, Maggie decided that it was time for a change, but she soon learns that life back home is not all sprinkles and jelly-filled donuts.

The temperature may be cooling down, but things in Sunny Shores are heating up. Business is booming for the Burger She Wrote food truck, but the summer season is winding down. After aiding in solving the mystery surrounding two murders already, she hoped things would get back to normal. No such luck. When a friend of Kara's is poisoned at a town fundraiser, it becomes personal. As Kara uncovers clues surrounding the case, a dark past is discovered. Blueberry Pie White Lie is book three in the Sunny Shores mystery series that is set in the fictional town of Sunny Shores, Florida. Each book ...

Merry is making a fresh start in small-town Autumn Vale, New York, in the mansion she's inherited from her late uncle, Melvin. The house is run-down, and someone has been digging giant holes on the grounds, but with its restaurant-quality kitchen, the place has potential for her new baking business. She even has her first client - the local retirement home. Unfortunately, Merry soon finds that quite a few townsfolk didn't like Uncle Mel, and she has inherited their enmity as well as his home.

A light, cozy mystery series in a quaint beach town with a fun loving, amateur female sleuth, her quirky uncle, and enough antiques and pastries to fill your home and your belly. Book 1 - Cupcakes and Catastrophe Tilly Griffin did everything by the book. Everyone else’s book. Now it was her turn to write a new chapter, three thousand miles from her former life. Her dream of opening a bakery like her grandma Luna was now becoming a reality. No sooner does she arrive in the charming beach town, when she and her quirky uncle are tangled up in a mysterious death. When a kite competition judge...

A light, cozy mystery series in a quaint beach town with a fun loving, amateur female sleuth, her quirky uncle, and enough antiques and pastries to fill your home and your belly. Book 4 - Sugar Cookies and Scandal Relations between Tilly, Uncle Jack and the antique shop’s bookstore neighbor were finally moving the right direction. That is, until a surprise addition arrives in town, putting them all in an awkward situation. As Tilly tries to unravel the new dynamic, matters are complicated by the death of the local veterinarian’s assistant. With no time to spare for being the peacemaker,...

FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED! INCLUDES ALL FIVE fun & intriguing whodunnits and ALL FIVE delicious dessert recipes from the popular culinary cozy mystery series PLUS a FREE BONUS Prequel to the series! All in one BIG BUNDLE! For MORE THAN 1,000 pages (KU) you'll be digging into suspicious secrets & tasty desserts alongside Paradise Point, Florida's favorite amateur sleuth, Faith Franklin! Investigating murder scenes never tasted so sweet! Written by bestselling author, Nancy McGovern, and talented newcomer, Cyra Bruce, this culinary cozy mystery extravaganza includes: Book 1: A Cherry ...

This omnibus edition contains the first three cozy culinary mystery novellas in the Bitsie's Bakeshop Mystery series. Raspberry Ripple Murder Bitsie George has always dreamed of owning her own bakery. When she finds herself suddenly single after 27 years of marriage, Bitsie jumps at the chance of fulfilling her dream. The only drawback to her new life as a baker is the dead electrician in her kitchen. Was the electrician the victim of a tragic on-the-job accident, or is there something much more sinister afoot? It’s up to Bitsie to find out with a little help from her sister-in-law, her ...

A light, cozy mystery series in a quaint beach town with a fun loving, amateur female sleuth, her quirky uncle, and enough antiques and pastries to fill your home and your belly. Contains the following 15 books in the complete series: Cupcakes and Catastrophe Muffins and Misdeeds Birthday Cake and Burglary Sugar Cookies and Scandal Tiramisu and Turmoil Pies and Pandemonium Coffee Cake and Calamities Bonbons and Bodies Sherbet and Shenanigans Biscotti and Betrayal Mousse and Mayhem Cotton Candy and Chaos Fruitcake and Felonies Ladyfingers and Lies Kettle Korn and Kerfuffle

A simple case - or it should be. But all clues point to the Toot Hansell Women’s Institute, and Detective Inspector Adams is about to discover there’s much more to the W.I. than just bake sales and jam-making. Alice Martin knows the ladies of the W.I. are not guilty. But she has a bigger problem. Toot Hansell has a large and dragonish secret, and she needs to keep the police well away from it. Beaufort Scales, High Lord of the Cloverly dragons, knows even better than Alice that the modern dragon only survives as long as no one knows they exist.

A Pinch of Poison — A Tasty Culinary Cozy Mystery Book 1 in The Sugar & Sage Mysteries Welcome to Willowbrook, where the ovens are warm, the gossip is sweeter than buttercream, and one poisoned pie turns a beloved bakery into ground zero for a small-town scandal. After trading her hectic city chef life for her grandmother’s quaint bakery, Maya Shepherd is determined to put Sugar & Sage back on the map—one flaky crust at a time. But during the town’s Pie & Pastry Contest, a celebrated judge collapses after sampling a pie linked to Maya’s kitchen. With whispers rising faster than ...

A light, cozy mystery series in a quaint beach town with a fun loving, amateur female sleuth, her quirky uncle, and enough antiques and pastries to fill your home and your belly. Book 10 - Biscotti and Betrayal Tilly’s exploration of quaint Belle Harbor has taken her on many adventures with her new love. Hiking high upon the hills overlooking the ocean, they spot a vehicle plunge off a cliff. Speeding down the trail to rescue the driver, they are nearly run down by the suspect car, which quickly disappears. As Tilly pursues justice for the victim, she is confronted by a paranoid ...

A light, cozy mystery series in a quaint beach town with a fun loving, amateur female sleuth, her quirky uncle, and enough antiques and pastries to fill your home and your belly. Book 7 - Coffee Cake and Calamities Tilly, her uncle, and their friends are escaping for a short getaway on the Coast Excursion train. Romance is in the air with Tilly’s uncle and her new assistant. As the train begins its journey to the vineyard, Tilly soon overhears whispers among the other guests about plans to dispose of a body. Matters are further complicated as several of the guests over indulge at the wine...

A light, cozy mystery series in a quaint beach town with a fun loving, amateur female sleuth, her quirky uncle, and enough antiques and pastries to fill your home and your belly. Book 13 - Fruitcake and Felonies Tilly has secured one of her biggest bakery clients yet, the largest gamer convention on the West Coast. As she is preparing the menu, the pushy bookstore owner inserts herself with a homemade fruitcake offering. Not one to rock the boat, TIlly reluctantly agrees to include the item with plans to place it far from the guests. As they are setting up for the long weekend, word comes ...

When William's Cove's newest "wellness" bakery opens its doors, Fanny Fairchild is the last person anyone expects to come to its defense — especially after its owner spent months taking shots at The Sugared Spatula's butter-and-sugar approach to life. But when that rival baker dies under mysterious circumstances and the official verdict looks suspiciously tidy, Fanny can't shake the feeling that the wrong story is being told. Arguing that a death everyone wants to call an accident is actually murder — without a crime scene, without witnesses, and against the skepticism of nearly ...

When a rival baker turns up dead in a vat of lemon curd at William's Cove's most anticipated baking competition, the contest comes to a very abrupt end — and so does any hope Fanny Fairchild had of a quiet weekend. The victim wasn't exactly beloved in the local baking community, and word is spreading fast that someone had been stealing recipes right out from under her competitors. With a killer loose among the whisks and piping bags, and Buttercream hot on a trail only he can follow, Fanny finds herself in the middle of a mystery where the sweetest competitors turn out to have the ...

The most feared food critic in the region has gone missing — and her car has turned up at the bottom of William's Cove's harbor. It would be easy enough to chalk it up to an accident, except that Fanny Fairchild knows what everyone else is starting to suspect: this particular critic was sitting on a story far more explosive than any restaurant review. Someone wanted her silenced before she could publish, and in a town full of people with secrets worth protecting, the list of suspects runs longer than the dessert menu at The Sugared Spatula. For readers who love peeling back a small town's...

When a customer returns a sourdough loaf to The Sugared Spatula with a strange complaint, Fanny Fairchild discovers something tucked inside it that was never meant to be there: a handwritten note with a cryptic string of numbers, a partial address, and a single line that reads, "The books don't balance. They never did." Around the same time, a reclusive clockmaker is found dead in his workshop under circumstances that don't quite add up. Two mysteries, seemingly unrelated — until Fanny begins to realize that a dying man deliberately chose her bakery as the place to leave his final message...

Buying a house that was rumored to be haunted might not have been the brightest idea I had ever had, but you didn’t see how beautiful it was. Unfortunately, the dead body in the bathtub left a ring of suspicion around the entire house. Allie McSwain never intended to buy a new house, but when the beautiful mansion just outside of town goes up for sale, she has to take a look at it. It was a piece of Sandy Harbor history and was not to be missed. She brings her best friend Lucy Gray along, and the real estate agent takes them on a house tour they won’t soon forget. Mummy pies were ...

Cinnamon Peters is one tough cookie. Every year at Christmas River's annual Gingerbread Junction Competition, pie baker extraordinaire Cinnamon aims to win, taking down any competitor who gets in her way. But when she finds a dead body in the woods behind her pie shop just days before the big competition, Cinnamon realizes that there's much more to worry about than cookies, frosting, and gumdrops. Someone's out to bring Cinnamon down. And they're playing dirty.

When Vera Holloway inherits her grandmother’s beloved bakery, she expects early mornings, stubborn dough, and the pressure of living up to a small-town legend. She does not expect a break-in. Or a missing recipe book. Or a dead baking judge—found with a croissant by his side. With the Sparrow Creek Baking Fair just weeks away, Vera’s future depends on recipes she no longer has. But when the theft of her grandmother’s secret croissant techniques is followed by murder, it becomes clear the crime wasn’t about money or antiques—it was about pastry. As gossip swirls and old rivalries...