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In Magnolia Bluff, Georgia, confidence can be charming—but it can also be deadly. When a viral survival influencer brings his “No-Nonsense Living” event to town, locals are eager to prove they’re tougher than modern regulations. But after a public demonstration ends in tragedy, June Mae Hatcher and the Books & Biscuits Club begin asking questions that don’t sit comfortably. Edited footage, suspicious insurance policies, and a business model built on outrage reveal that this wasn’t just a reckless accident. As secrets surface and loyalties are tested, Magnolia Bluff must confront...

Murder, She Baked (and Then Forgot Why She Went into the Kitchen) Detective Betsy Parks has been replaced by the chief’s dimwitted son—proof that in the Whitfield P.D., nepotism is more alive and well than the murder victims she’s spent her career avenging. Banished to the basement with a stack of forgotten cold cases, Betsy discovers a few perks: the air’s cooler, the coffee’s stronger, and best of all, no more locker-room banter from her coworkers upstairs. When she reopens the 2002 file of Rena Reynolds—a nurse accused of poisoning her husband, Tank—Betsy’s instincts kick...

Someone in the picturesque Southern town of Seabrook just crossed the line from justice… to murder. Sunny Marquette runs her family café on biscuits, sweet tea, and Southern hospitality. But when a notorious local troublemaker turns up dead, whispers begin circling far too close to Marquette’s Café—and the secret vigilante help Sunny and her father once provided when the law fell short. Now someone is copying their methods… and pushing the town toward something far more dangerous. As suspicion spreads and neighbors turn on neighbors, Sunny must uncover who’s pulling the strings ...

When Dwight McClay—half of Fudgetown’s famous cookie duo—vanishes without a crumb of warning, the sugar-scented seaside town spirals into chaos. Orders from the McClays’ cookie empire, Fudgetown Fix, pile up, tempers flare, and Dwight’s wife, Marta, insists he just “needed a break.” But café owner Beulah Brown smells something far worse than burnt fudge. With Detective Froot bungling every lead, Beulah and her nosy breakfast regulars start sifting through secrets, half-baked alibis, and a suspicious trail of chocolate chips. The deeper she digs, the stickier things get—and ...

Miami has a serial killer on the loose—and the last people anyone expects to catch him are a retired couple in knee socks and sandals. Kelli Fudge and her cozy mystery author aunt, Lucy Lemon, have teamed up to write their very first series together! In book 1 of White Collar Murder Mystery series, Jack and Marge Bledsoe moved to Miami to enjoy their golden years playing shuffleboard and watching sunsets on the beach. But when their neighbor, a Miami P.D. detective, makes them an offer they can’t refuse, retirement suddenly gets a lot more dangerous. A shadowy killer is slipping into ...

A late-night argument. A dead husband. And a town ready to take matters into their own hands. When Forrest Jenkins is found dead hours after a public fight with his wife, the quiet coastal town of Seabrook erupts with rumors. Some say it was self-defense. Others say it was murder. But Sunny Marquette knows small towns have a dangerous habit of deciding the truth before the facts arrive. When an anonymous note warns You didn’t stop it, suspicion begins circling her café—and the secrets she and her father have worked hard to keep buried. As fear spreads and someone quietly orchestrates ...

When a sizzling funnel cake festival in Fudgetown turns deadly, Beulah Brown’s cozy seaside café becomes ground zero for another sticky scandal. The sugary peace of Maine’s sweetest boardwalk shatters when a corporate dessert empire targets The Cocoa Bean—and nearly blows it sky-high. Armed with her apron, her wit, and a frying pan that’s seen more crime scenes than pancakes, Beulah must unmask a new kind of villain: one who hides behind sugar, smiles, and stock options. Fried in Funnel Cake is a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud cozy mystery filled with friendship, fudge, and revenge ...

When the past rises from the earth like a grotesque soufflé, Blueberry Bay’s sweetest secrets turn deadly. During the town’s annual Bay Heritage Festival, baker Bella Butterfield is serving her famous blueberry scones when construction crews make a chilling discovery beneath the old lighthouse garden—a skeleton clutching one of her family’s vintage bakery tokens. The bones belong to a woman who vanished thirty years ago, and the evidence points straight toward Bella’s late grandmother, June. Determined to clear her family’s name, Bella digs into the seaside town’s sugar-...

He’s about to die for a crime he swears he didn’t commit—and Sweetie Chapman might be his last chance at the truth. With just 48 hours left on death row, Merlin Terrance McGraw finally has something to say… and Sweetie Chapman is bringing pie to hear it. Because in Pine Bluff, a warm meal has a way of loosening even the tightest lips. When the retired schoolteacher steps into the prison with her homemade chicken pot pie, no one expects a confession—least of all one that could unravel a decades-old murder. As secrets rise and loyalties crack, Sweetie must race against time to ...

A wedding in Blueberry Bay ends with one vow broken, one secret buried, and one groom dead before dessert. When baker Bella Butterfield is hired to create the perfect wedding menu, she expects fondant, not felony. But when the groom collapses after the first toast, the seaside town’s sweetest celebration turns deadly—and Bella finds herself mixing clues instead of batter. As rumors swirl and recipes go missing, Bella follows a trail of sugar, secrets, and sin that leads straight into her grandmother’s shadowed past. Each clue brings her closer to the truth…and closer to a killer ...

One killer craving. One desperate baker. One final chance to save a life. When a wanted murderer takes a hostage in Blueberry Bay, he doesn’t demand money—he demands dessert. Each day, he sends Bella Butterfield a message: Bake me something worth dying for… or she dies instead. As the coastal town locks down in fear, Bella becomes both negotiator and investigator, baking her way through fear and flour in a race against time. Cakes, cookies, and cobblers fail to satisfy the killer’s impossible hunger—and with every failed delivery, his threats grow darker. But between oven timers ...

When Jake opened Pit-Stop Diner off the highway in Oxford, Maine, he expected black coffee, greasy burgers, and the usual cast of quirky locals—not a dead body in his parking lot. The late-night rush turns into a crime scene when a drifter is found facedown next to the fryer grease barrels. Suddenly, the quiet diner becomes the center of small-town gossip and big trouble. Between suspicious truckers, nosy regulars, and a stranger who seems to know more than they should, Jake’s got more on his plate than the daily special. As clues pile up like dishes after Sunday breakfast, Jake and his...

This cold case won’t be easy to solve—not with a decade-long missing nanny, a coy socialite, and Detective Betsy Parks’ hormones staging a full-blown mutiny. When Betsy reopens the ten-year-old disappearance of Lydia Frost—maid to Whitfield’s most elegant widow, Emma Black—she uncovers more than dust in the basement. Everyone in town swears Emma’s guilty, but without a body, there’s no crime to prove. Between gossip, gaslighting, and garden parties gone wrong, Betsy must juggle hot flashes, hostile colleagues, and one very polished suspect who’s made deception an art form....

When a brutal heatwave hits Oxford, Maine, Pit-Stop Diner is serving more than meatloaf and mashed potatoes—a delivery man collapses face-first onto a hot plate, and Jake finds himself in the middle of another mystery. What first looks like a tragic accident quickly boils over into something bigger. Eddie Malloy had secrets—dangerous ones—tied to a coastal supplier ring smuggling expired goods through unsuspecting small-town diners. As the town buzzes with gossip and tension mounts, Jake finds himself dodging threats, chasing midnight clues, and fighting for his diner’s future. With...

They called her Maneater—but Sweetie Chapman knows monsters aren’t always what they seem. When Irene “Maneater” Jenkins sits on death row, Sweetie arrives with a pot of slow-cooked beef stew—and a knack for making killers talk. Rumor has it Irene fed three husbands to her pigs. But Sweetie suspects the truth is far more complicated. With the clock ticking, one final meal turns into a chilling confession filled with buried secrets, quiet revenge, and a past no one wanted to see. As Sweetie and her sheriff son Wayne dig deeper, they uncover a town built on silence—and sins that ...

Some secrets don’t stay buried… they simmer until they’re ready to spill. When Sweetie Chapman walks into a prison carrying her famous million-dollar spaghetti, even killers start talking. But this time, the truth hits closer to home than she ever expected. Cliffton Mathieson—The Syracuse Strangler—has confessed to every murder but one. Claire Danner vanished fifteen years ago, leaving Pine Bluff haunted by whispers and what-ifs. With his execution just 48 hours away, Sweetie is called in for one final meal—and one last chance at the truth. But when Cliffton’s mother begins to...

Two women. One quiet town. And a death everyone wants forgotten. Freshly divorced and searching for a fresh start, Maureen and Liz bond over daily walks through the charming town of Greenacre. It’s supposed to be peaceful. Predictable. Safe. Until a respected local man is found dead by the lake—and the town is far too eager to call it an accident. As whispers spread and evidence quietly disappears, Maureen’s sharp instincts and Liz’s emotional insight uncover a disturbing truth: this wasn’t a tragic collapse. It was a violent moment buried under silence, favors, and fear. And the ...

A summer heatwave hits Oxford, Maine, and Pit-Stop Diner is busier than ever—until a local delivery man collapses face-first onto a bag of donuts. When the death turns out to be anything but natural, Jake finds himself pulled back into a dangerous web of secrets simmering beneath the surface of his quiet roadside diner. With Sheriff Briggs on edge, gossip swirling, and old rivalries bubbling up, Jake digs into the victim’s past and uncovers a smuggling ring that stretches far beyond Oxford’s borders. As the summer storm builds, someone decides the best way to keep their secrets is to ...

The man didn’t die because he slipped into the river—he died because he knew something Greenacre wanted buried. Recently divorced and reinventing their lives, Maureen and Liz bond over daily walks through their quiet town. But when a man turns up dead and the story everyone accepts feels too tidy, their curiosity turns dangerous. As whispers replace facts and pressure quietly shifts, the women realize the truth isn’t being hidden by accident—it’s being controlled. Someone corrected the timeline. Someone is watching. And someone is willing to sacrifice the wrong person to protect ...

Business is finally picking up again at Pit-Stop Diner, and Jake’s hoping for a little peace—and maybe a few more pie orders—when trouble strolls in with the morning crowd. A stranger slumps over a slice of Betty’s famous blueberry pie… and never gets back up. The quiet roadside diner is thrown into chaos once again as gossip, suspicion, and a trail of sticky clues spread faster than spilled coffee. Sheriff Ella Briggs is on the case, but Jake can’t help noticing the stranger’s last receipt—and the cryptic message scribbled on the napkin. From late-night truck stops to ...