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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 Taylor Grey's mischievous Siberian Husky digs up a tarnished Victorian locket near an old stone wall, she assumes it's just another forgotten treasure waiting to be reunited with its owner. But the delicate piece engraved with the initials "A.M." carries a weight far heavier than its sterling silver—and someone desperately wants it to stay buried. Within hours of posting about her find, Taylor receives an anonymous warning that sends chills down her spine. Then a body turns up in Millbrook Creek, and suddenly the antique dealer finds herself entangled in a mystery that stretches back...

Fanny Fairchild poured everything into the wedding cake — three tiers, flawless ganache, a week of careful work — and it was, by every measure, a masterpiece. Which makes it all the more alarming when the groom drops dead before the reception is over and the phrase "death by chocolate" stops being a joke. With the wedding party stranded at the venue and everyone pointing fingers at everyone else, Fanny finds herself investigating a crime scene that happens to be decorated with her very best work, surrounded by a bridal party whose picture-perfect smiles are hiding some very ugly secrets...

When Sarah Stall lands the biggest catering job of her career—the prestigious Giving Hearts Charity Breakfast—she expects a morning of elegant bagels, wealthy donors, and maybe a little harmless gossip. What she doesn't expect is to find the foundation's most generous benefactor dead in a storage room, strangled with her own silk scarf. Now Sarah's serving coffee to a roomful of philanthropists, and one of them is a killer. The victim was a woman who collected enemies the way others collect fine art, and the suspects are as polished as their platinum credit cards. A retired surgeon with...

Restaurant Week was supposed to be Pelican Harbor's sweetest week of the year. Five days of tasting menus, harbor lanterns, and Blair Whitcome's legendary crème brûlée anchoring the finale — until a kitchen fire at the Bayou Brasserie kills the town's visiting food critic and turns a celebration into a crime scene. The fire marshal calls it an accident. Blair calls it wrong. The grease trap was clean three weeks ago. The back window was freshly sealed. And the exit was blocked before the fire ever started. What begins as professional instinct — a chef who knows what clean kitchens ...

Blair Whitcome has poured everything into transforming the neglected rooftop above Blair's Bistro into a lush container garden and intimate dining terrace — and tonight is the grand unveiling. Fairy lights, fig tartlets, and the golden glow of a Gulf Coast sunset. Thirty guests. One celebrated food blogger with half a million followers, live-streaming the whole thing. Everything is perfect. Then the scream comes from the alley three stories below, and Blair's most beautiful evening becomes her worst. Maren Solberg didn't come to Pelican Harbor just for the food. The fearless blogger was ...

A year after the Preston Willoughby case nearly destroyed her café, Sarah Stall has finally found her rhythm again. Bagels & Beans is thriving, her regulars are loyal, and life in Clancy feels blissfully predictable. Then a sleek new sign appears in the vacant storefront across Main Street: Roasted Rivals Artisan Coffee. The owner, charming newcomer Derek Hollister, arrives with big-city credentials, a gleaming professional roaster, and one clear goal—to steal Sarah's customers and crush her business. Within weeks, he's poaching her employees, launching social media attacks, and turning ...

When legendary baker Genie Fairfax announces she's finally ready to pass down her family's treasured recipe notebook—four generations of culinary secrets that have made her cinnamon rolls the stuff of Clancy legend—Sarah Stall is honored to be among the candidates. But the intimate gathering at Genie's cottage turns tense when uninvited guests arrive with their own claims to the recipes, and by evening's end, the precious notebook has vanished. Two days later, the prime suspect is found dead in a walk-in cooler, clutching three torn pages in his frozen hand. Sarah finds herself ...

The Bound & Determined Book Club's holiday gift exchange should have been an evening of friendship, laughter, and carefully chosen books. But when a beautifully wrapped present reveals a devastating secret instead of a beloved novel, the festive gathering at the Crescent Moon Inn takes a dark turn. By morning, one guest is dead, and retired schoolteacher Maryanne Silva finds herself unwrapping a mystery far more dangerous than anyone expected. As Maryanne and her best friend Gretchen dig deeper into the victim's hidden life, they discover that secrets in Franklin's Crossing run deeper than ...

When a rival book club sweeps into Franklin's Crossing with matching blazers and ambitious plans, retired schoolteacher Maryanne Silva isn't worried about competition. But when the newcomers set their sights on a prestigious literacy grant that Maryanne has spent months pursuing, the battle for the town's literary soul takes a deadly turn. A grant coordinator who knows too much winds up dead in the library, and suddenly the Bound & Determined Book Club finds themselves investigating their sixth murder—one that hits closer to home than any case before. As Maryanne and her best friend ...

When bestselling author Garrett Kingsley returns to Franklin's Crossing for his first hometown book signing, the whole town turns out to celebrate their famous son. But the evening takes a dark turn when old grudges surface, family tensions boil over, and by morning, Garrett is found dead in the bookshop stockroom. Now retired schoolteacher Maryanne Silva and her sharp-witted best friend Gretchen Roe find themselves drawn into another mystery—one that will test their friendship, their sleuthing skills, and everything they thought they knew about the boy Maryanne once taught to write. As ...

Taylor Grey knows the antique business can be cutthroat, but when a rival dealer turns up dead in his own warehouse, she realizes someone has taken competition to a deadly new level. Garrett Sawyer made enemies everywhere he went—undercutting honest dealers, selling stolen merchandise, and always seeming to know about valuable estates before anyone else. Now he's been electrocuted by a rigged vintage lamp, and Taylor finds herself drawn into a web of secrets, grudges, and shadowy partnerships that reaches far beyond Peaceful Falls. With her loyal Siberian Husky Yukon by her side, Taylor ...

Six months after solving the mystery that nearly destroyed her café, Sarah Stall has finally gotten her life back to normal. Bagels & Beans is thriving, her loyal customers are happy, and there are absolutely no dead bodies on the premises. Then a certified letter arrives with devastating news: her landlord is selling the entire block to a developer, and Sarah has sixty days to pack up everything she's built. When she confronts Dwight Pemberton at a chaotic town meeting, she barely recognizes the man who once championed Main Street's small businesses. Something has changed him—something ...

Three years after opening Bagels & Beans, Sarah Stall has built more than a successful café—she's built a family. As Clancy transforms into a winter wonderland for its Holiday Market, Sarah is ready for nothing more complicated than peppermint mochas, cinnamon sugar bagels, and whatever surprise her boyfriend Adam has been hinting at all week. But when the market's charming organizer is found dead behind her booth, tangled in electrical cords with burn marks on his hands, Sarah finds herself caught up in her sixth murder investigation—and this one feels personal. Victor Crane made ...

When the Tri-County Antique Collectors Convention comes to Peaceful Falls, Taylor Grey couldn't be more excited. Three days of rare finds, fascinating vendors, and the chance to watch legendary appraiser Miles Fairbanks conduct his famous live authentications. But Miles's brutal honesty has a way of making enemies, and when he's found dead in the authentication room with a Victorian letter opener in his back, Taylor realizes someone at the convention came prepared to silence him permanently. The suspect list reads like a roster of the wronged. A grieving widow whose husband's prized Tiffany...

When the Bound & Determined Book Club escapes to a charming lakeside inn for a weekend of reading and relaxation, Maryanne Silva expects nothing more strenuous than debating the merits of Rebecca and sampling Bertie's famous lemon pound cake. But a chance encounter between one of her dearest friends and a glamorous stranger turns a cozy retreat into something far more sinister. By morning, a guest lies dead at the bottom of a staircase, and the only road off the mountain has washed away in the storm. Trapped with a killer and a friend under suspicion, Maryanne and Gretchen must untangle a ...

When Clarkson Crowder attends a seed savers meeting with her grandmother Bea, she expects an evening of heirloom tomato talk and friendly gardening advice. Instead, she witnesses a legendary collector announce a bequest worth a small fortune—and watches the room erupt with barely concealed jealousy, corporate hunger, and family fury. Days later, when the collector turns up dead before he can share evidence of a scheme that's been poisoning the preservation community from within, Clarkson finds herself drawn into her most personal investigation yet. Someone in the tight-knit world of seed ...

Clarkson Crowder's heirloom potato harvest is shaping up to be spectacular—until her irrigation repairs unearth something far more troubling than rusty pipes. When a contractor's backhoe reveals human remains buried in her south field, Clarkson finds herself at the center of yet another murder investigation. The skeleton belongs to Russ Pemberton, a farmhand who vanished four years ago without a trace. Everyone assumed he'd simply drifted on to the next town, but someone in Meadow Creek knew the truth all along. As Clarkson digs into Russ's final weeks, she discovers he was a man who ...

When celebrity chef Preston Langley visits Crowder Family Farm scouting for suppliers, Clarkson Crowder thinks her dreams of commercial success are finally within reach. His enthusiasm for her asparagus is matched only by his promises of a lucrative partnership with his soon-to-open restaurant. But those dreams turn to disaster when Preston collapses in her driveway—and suddenly everyone in Crawford County is wondering if Clarkson's vegetables are safe to eat. With her reputation wilting faster than lettuce in a heat wave, Clarkson has no choice but to dig into Preston's past. What she ...