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A rival baker is stealing recipes from Bella…and then ends up dead? If Bella didn’t do it, she better solve the mystery before the whole town turns on her! After surviving one scandal, baker Bella Butterfield is determined to keep her head down, her oven hot, and her corgi, Crumb, out of trouble. But when a rival bakery suddenly opens across the street—with recipes suspiciously similar to her own—Bella smells betrayal. Then the rival’s owner turns up dead, face-down in a pan of blueberry glaze, and the whole town starts whispering that Bella’s secret ingredient might be motive. ...

Welcome back to Magnolia Bluff, Georgia—where gossip is gospel, friendship never burns out, and murder always comes with a side of barbecue. When Big Jimmy Dawes, the town’s “Rib King,” drops dead face-first in his brisket, Sheriff Roy calls it a heart attack. But the ladies of the Books & Biscuits Club know better—especially when the coroner finds a dash too much arsenic in the sauce. Now June Mae, Lula Belle, Dotty, and Sissy are stirrin’ up more than sweet tea as they dig into old grudges, stolen recipes, and family secrets stickier than molasses. Full of humor, Southern ...

When the buffet is midnight… the murder is inevitable. Snowed Inn’s famous Midnight Buffet is supposed to be a charming winter tradition—twinkling lights, towering desserts, and enough maple coffee to power all of coastal Maine. But when a notoriously cruel food critic collapses into the chocolate fountain, Charlotte, the inn’s quick-witted maid-turned-sleuth, finds herself knee-deep in sabotage, secrets, and poisoned mousse. With the inn at risk of shutting down, Sheriff Meyers circling like a suspicious seagull, and half the guests hiding motives behind their holiday sweaters, ...

When Eleanor Jean Montgomery—known across Maine as The Headless Hobo Killer—faces execution in three days, one question remains: where are the missing heads? Sweetie Chapman, Pine Bluff’s soft-spoken casserole whisperer, is called in for the job no detective has cracked. With her famous hobo casserole in hand and her prison “dining room” ready, Sweetie sits across from Eleanor—a sweet, sharp-tongued woman whose charm doesn’t quite hide the darkness in her eyes. Eleanor doesn’t deny the killings. But she’s holding back something. And this time, it’s not about guilt or ...

When Sweetie Chapman walks into a prison with a bubbling dish of her famous million-dollar spaghetti, killers talk. But this time, the truth cuts closer to home than anyone ever imagined. Cliffton Mathieson—known as The Syracuse Strangler—has confessed to every murder but one. The missing woman, Claire Danner, vanished fifteen years ago, and the town has lived with that shadow ever since. With his execution just 48 hours away, Sweetie is brought in for one last meal… and one last chance at the truth. But when Cliffton’s mother, Alice, starts to crack under the weight of secrets ...

Secrets don’t stay silent for long at Snowed Inn… When the Quiet Season Retreat promises peace, meditation, and a break from chaos, Charlotte hopes for a rare, crime-free week. But silence shatters the moment a true-crime podcaster checks in under a fake name—and turns up dead with his door locked from the inside. With the storm raging and Sheriff Meyers overwhelmed, Charlotte is pulled into her most chilling case yet. Cryptic cassette tapes, forged documents, and a decades-old disappearance point toward one unsettling truth: the killer has been hiding at Snowed Inn for years. As the ...

Another cold case, another woman who vanished in the mist. Can Detective Betsy Parks fight her hot flashes long enough to bring justice to the victim from the confines of the basement? When Whitfield’s beloved bakery serves up more than sweets, Detective Betsy Parks finds herself knee-deep in cocoa, corruption, and one missing woman who vanished with the recipe for disaster. Armed with caffeine, sarcasm, and a basement full of unsolved files, Betsy and Janine dig into a decades-old cover-up that started with chocolate cake and ended in murder. With Lopez back on her team and Muffin ...

When sweetness turns deadly, Fudgetown’s darkest secrets come undone. In the charming town of Fudgetown, the beloved saltwater taffy holds more than just flavor—it carries a legacy tangled in lies, control, and danger. When threats shatter the peace and a killer stalks the festival, Beulah must dive deep into a web of betrayal and secrets that threaten to choke the town’s future. As the thrilling festival finale unfolds, justice hangs by a thread, forcing the community to face painful truths. Can they find forgiveness and heal, or will the noose of the past strangle their sweetest ...

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...

Welcome to Snowed Inn—where the maple coffee is hot, the gossip is hotter, and murder has terrible timing. When Charlotte Scott takes a maid’s job at the charming, chaotic Snowed Inn in coastal Maine, she expects dust bunnies… not dead bodies. But when an unpleasant guest turns up murdered during a nor’easter, calling the police threatens to expose the inn’s quirky staff and their complicated pasts. To protect her new friends, Charlotte reluctantly slips into sleuth mode. Her investigation uncovers hidden rooms, burned clues, small-town secrets, and a blackmail scheme that puts ...

It’s not just the weather that’s scorching in Okamara! A missing friend, a new scandal, and as always, hot fisherman! (Don’t worry, no spice on these pages, ladies!) When a summer heatwave scorches the coastal village of Okamara, Maine, Ellie finds herself tangled in secrets, storms—and one dangerously charming fisherman. A mysterious letter. A vanished friend. And a truth that refuses to stay buried beneath the tides. As Ellie and Dax Keegan search for answers, sparks fly between them—sweet, subtle, and far from scandalous. If you appreciate a fine-looking man, a great mystery, ...

Another crime washes up in the quaint fishing village of Okamara? Ellie never thought this kind of murder and mayhem existed in such an idyllic coastal town! In the fog-kissed fishing village of Okamara, schoolteacher-turned-sleuth Ellie Slater wants nothing more than quiet mornings, hot coffee, and a harbor free of secrets. But when a fire, a forged permit, and a dangerously charming drifter in flannel stir up the past, Ellie’s swept into a tide of deceit reaching far beyond the docks. As corporate greed, small-town loyalties, and buried sins collide, Ellie must trust her instincts—and...

Four widows. Four “accidental” deaths. One lasagna recipe that won’t stay buried. Something smells off to Detective Betsy Parks…and it’s not the oregano! After an Alaskan cruise and an unfortunate ankle twist, Detective Betsy Parks is back in the basement—and knee-deep in mystery again. When she reopens a decades-old file about a group of women known as The Widow’s Club, Betsy uncovers casseroles, cover-ups, and crimes baked to perfection. As gossip simmers and old loyalties crumble, Betsy must untangle a web of love, loss, and lasagna before someone serves up revenge for ...

When a train derails in Misery, Maine, the passengers aren’t the only ones left shaken—someone’s also stirred up murder. After the wreck, Alice Hardy opens the doors of the Moose Tracks Inn to stranded travelers seeking warmth, food, and comfort. But when the train’s conductor announces the crash wasn’t an accident—and turns up dead before dessert—Alice finds herself in the middle of another deadly mystery. As snow traps everyone inside and secrets begin to thaw, she must sift through a tangle of lies, hidden motives, and half-baked alibis before the killer serves their next ...

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 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 ...

One Maine smalltown, one body tangled in a lobsterman’s net, and one prime suspect too charming to be cast away. When a body washes ashore tangled in a lobsterman’s net, the seaside town of Okamara, Maine, is once again awash in secrets. Ellie swore she was done chasing mysteries—but when the handsome fisherman Dax Keegan becomes the prime suspect, her heart won’t let her stay on shore. As whispers swirl through the harbor and long-buried experiments resurface, Ellie must navigate treacherous tides of truth, temptation, and small-town gossip. Clean, clever, and delightfully flirty, ...

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-...

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 ...

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 ...