Culinary Baking

Fresh pastries. Friendly faces. And far too many murders. When café owner Eden Morales inherits Honeyford Harbor Café and her grandmother’s sprawling old mansion, she expects a chance to rebuild her life—not become the town’s unofficial detective. But in Honeyford Harbor, trouble has a habit of arriving before breakfast. From a body discovered behind her café and a poisoned seafood supper to a deadly baking competition, a wedding gone horribly wrong, and an espresso-fueled mystery, Eden finds herself at the center of one baffling case after another. With her free-spirited best ...

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 ...

A dead celebrity chef boss. A handsome and mysterious new next door neighbor. Lizzie’s in big trouble... Waitress Lizzie's horrible and much hated celebrity chef boss is dead; stabbed with a knife in his own restaurant kitchen. When the police discover she was officially the last person to see him alive, they put Lizzie right at the top of their suspect list. Now, panicked and fighting to clear her name, she’s forced to team up with her handsome and intriguing new neighbor, Jack Mathis. Okay, so Jack claims he’s a former special agent on suspension from his investigative duties for ...

NOTE: BOOK 5 IN THIS SERIES, WEDDINGS & WINE CAKE, IS NOW ON PREORDER! How exciting! Rachel is off to spend a weekend serving as a judge for a baking contest! She’s ready to fill her belly with delicious desserts and clear her mind of everything to do with work. But there’s just one problem… Someone has just been murdered and one of the contestants just may be the killer! And there’s reason to believe that one of Rachel’s closest friends may be next on the criminal’s list! Now, all thoughts of selecting the most talented baker have been replaced by trying to catch the culprit ...

Poppy Wilkinson is thrilled to be chosen as a contestant on The Great British Baking Contest. As an American with English roots, winning the crown as Britain’s Best Baker would open doors she’s dreamed of. In more ways than one. Appearing on the reality show is her chance to get into Broomewode Hall and uncover the secrets of her past. But strange things are happening on the show’s set: Accusations of sabotage, a black cat that shadows Poppy, suspiciously unsociable residents at Broomewode Hall - and the judges can be real witches.

Rory Lane’s café is her whole world, the scones, the regulars, the green door on Main Street she opens every morning at six. Then a customer dies at the Business Association mixer, and suddenly her kitchen is a crime scene, her café is closed, and the whole town is looking at her sideways. The police say it was the food. Rory knows her food. Something doesn’t add up — not the timeline, not the delivery records, and definitely not the initials scrawled on a supplier slip that shouldn’t exist. Armed with a blue notebook, a retired accountant’s eye for numbers, and a baker’s ...

Spring is on the horizon, and the Weary Dragon Inn is getting its annual deep clean. But before Bev can even finish scrubbing the windows, Carpenter Earl's workshop goes up in flames. Earl's convinced the local kids are behind the mischief, but when more buildings come crashing down under mysterious circumstances, Bev's on the case once more. The cozy follow-up to Secrets and Snowflakes, Beasts and Baking is the fourth installment in the Weary Dragon Inn series, following amnesiac innkeeper Bev and the curiosities that occur in the quaint fantasy village of Pigsend.

Muffins and Murder. Fresh paint. Flaky pastries. And far too many suspects. Eden Morales comes to Honeyford Harbor for a clean slate and to run her inherited café —not a dead body. When a smooth-talking fixer turns up murdered behind Honeyford Harbor Café, Eden becomes the town’s easiest explanation. She’s the outsider with a disputed inheritance and a grandmother who left behind more secrets than recipes. But as gossip simmers hotter than her espresso machine, Eden realizes nearly everyone had a reason to want the victim gone: angry dockworkers feeling swindled and officials who ...

The New York Times #1 bestseller (3 weeks running) is now available in paperback. Losing It is popular actress, Jenny Craig spokeswoman, and America’s sweetheart Valerie Bertinelli's headline-making account of her complicated past and how she took control of her own life to gain self-esteem...

Under the Great British Baking Contest tent, the competition's heating up to be crowned best baker in all of Britain. For amateur baker Poppy Wilkinson, there are mysteries, secrets, and lies, even murders to solve. As a fledgling witch, Poppy's having enough trouble controlling her sponge cake, never mind trying to control her powers. Besides solving crime, Poppy's also trying to uncover the mystery surrounding her own background. Will she discover who she really is before she gets sent home? Or worse?

Hattie Leiper never imagined her baking could earn a handshake from a famous TV judge—especially one that’s followed by his sudden collapse! During a tented garden bake off at a Belle Meade estate, Hattie, along with her bestie and detective Bo Becket, must navigate competitive bakers, daily mishaps, and sugary secrets. Her furbabies are less than thrilled about the whole event, making their objections known at every turn, but Hattie can’t ignore the nagging feeling that something fishy is at play. Was it a careless ingredient mix-up or something more deliberate? Between a retired ...

A grand opening. A fatal fall. And a mystery that’s anything but accidental… Eden Morales prides herself on running the most organized café in Honeyford Harbor—but when a rival coffee shop opens across the street, even she can’t control the chaos that follows. Moments after the ribbon is cut, the shop’s owner collapses behind the espresso bar. A tragic accident, they say. Just a fall in the rush. Eden isn’t convinced. With her mischievous kitten Crumb uncovering clues and her loyal friends by her side, Eden begins digging into the truth. A power-hungry assistant manager with ...

Someone contaminated the lemon extract. Now there's a body—and Eden Morales is holding the bottle. When Honeyford Harbor's cutthroat bake-off queen drops dead mid-judging from a violent allergic reaction, café owner Eden Morales finds herself at the top of Sheriff Whitaker's suspect list. She was closest to the victim. The tampered extract came from her station. And her habit of noticing things other people miss? Not exactly helping her look innocent. With her chaos-magnet best friend Tessa working every angle and contractor Cal untangling the suspicious access points he flagged from the...

Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked. Cooked is now a Netflix docuseries based on the book that focuses on the four kinds of "transformations" that occur...

She went looking for his tax documents. She found the end of her nineteen-year marriage instead. Wendy Matney has spent two decades being the reliable wife. She runs a thriving artisanal bakery, quietly manages the household, and expertly smooths over her husband Adam’s endless string of failed mid-life career transitions. But when she discovers a neon pink, sequined, Size 2 cutout dress hidden behind his golf clubs, her patience finally burns out. Adam thinks he has pulled off the perfect lie. He believes Wendy is too comfortable—and too clueless—to realize he is spending her hard-...

British amateur bakers must turn out the perfect scone in this week’s filming of The Great British Baking Contest. But fledgling witch Poppy is losing her concentration as she gets closer to discovering more of her own history at Broomewode Hall, a postcard-pretty manor house in Somerset, England. However, someone is warning her to leave as she’s in danger. Can she keep her cool while solving mysteries, working on her witch skills, and still turn out a decent scone?

A socialite is dead, my lemon bars are taking the blame, and my love life is somehow in worse shape than the crime scene. A baker who sees the dead. One too many suitors. And a killer. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder. Murder in the Mix is a USA TODAY Bestselling Series! Humor with a side of homicide. From New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Addison Moore. Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" This book can be enjoyed on its own without reading the other books in the series so dive on in! Includes RECIPE! My name is Lottie ...

Welcome to The Berry Home: where the food is to-die-for! Kylie is thrilled when the space next door is finally leased out to a bookshop owner. Unfortunately, opening day doesn’t go as planned. Instead, the bookshop becomes the scene of a murder. Who could’ve killed Charlie Mccoy, a man of many secrets and just as many enemies? With a murder to investigate and a friend’s wedding to plan, Kylie must call on all her friends to help keep the Berry Home afloat as she scrambles to uncover the truth before it’s too late. Meanwhile, Brad is left to fend for himself as a newly minted ...

Kylie Berry is working hard to find a lessor for her storefront next door when she gets swamped by a murder-tourism group that has her as one of their featured stops. Kylie is horrified to be featured in such a terrible tour, but to make matters worse, someone on the tour gets killed. Fingers are pointed all around, and some of the tourists even think that Sage is a killer. Praise for A.R. Winters:"The perfect balance of being lighthearted, but still a serious page-turning mystery." - Jaycie D, Amazon.com "A fun cozy mystery with engaging and entertaining characters" - lq, Amazon.com "A ...

A poisoned fish dish, a meddling cat, and a café owner with more than recipes to protect. Eden Morales runs Honeyford Harbor Café on comfort food, careful routines, and the firm belief that order solves most problems—until a smug lawyer threatens her inheritance and keels over dead after sampling her signature fish special at a community event. Now Eden’s café is ground zero for gossip, suspicion, and one very cranky investigator. With her enthusiastic best friend Tessa treating sleuthing like a competitive sport, her steady handyman Cal quietly keeping her out of trouble, and her ...