Restaurant Cozy Mysteries

Cynthia Rose leaves Texas to take over her son's ice cream truck on Maui while he's imprisoned, awaiting trial for a crime he didn't commit. Cynthia doesn't expect to have not one but several mysteries to solve before her son, Nate, and his girlfriend, Harmony, are exonerated and the real perp is brought to justice. Written by Celia Kinsey under the pen name Abby Byne.

Opening night. A feared critic. Three bites, then collapse. Chef-owner Fiona Firth aims to get through The Perennial’s first dinner service in one piece, not find a body at the pass. Early tests point to monkshood in her seven-herb blend, and the whispers harden: police name Fiona their prime suspect. She spots what others miss: a swapped spice jar, sticky residue on a tasting mug, a camera blind spot no one should reach. Miso, her orange tabby, bristles while the lead detective tells her to stand down. Two others have motive and access: developer Dale Morrison, whose permits hinge on ...

Poppy McAllister is happy about opening a Jersey Shore B&B - but working in a professional kitchen has always been her real dream. Now it's coming true, at least briefly, as she teams up during the high-profile Restaurant Week challenge. Poppy's specialty is pastries, and if anyone can make glorious gluten-free goodies, it's Poppy. Things get heated quickly. Relatively harmless pranks soon escalate into real hazards, including an exploding deep fryer. And now one of the judges has died after taking a bite of Poppy's cannoli - making her the chef suspect.

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 ...

One dead garden coordinator. One routine herb pickup. And a crime someone is desperate to pass off as an accident. Fiona Firth stops by Seacliff Springs’ community garden every Tuesday morning for fresh herbs. Finding Clara Pemberton dead among the rosemary beds turns a familiar routine into a nightmare. The explanation is convenient. A fall. An accident. Case closed. But the garden tells a different story. Missing tools. Broken stems. Disturbed soil. And Clara’s final notes suggest she wasn’t just tending plants. She was closing in on someone who’d been stealing from the garden for...

Discover how Meghan Truman, Sandy Bay's latest resident and new bakery owner, navigates her way through three murder mysteries as she gets to know the quirky characters in her adopted hometown after failing to make a career as an actress in Hollywood. The town's local detective, Jack Irvin, has an eye for Meghan, but will she find time to build a romance while she tries to clear her name?

“Listeners will be entertained by narrator Karen Chilton's performance of this deliciously devious novel set at Essie's Soul Food Cafe on the South Side of Chicago.”—AudioFile A sparkling debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago, featuring the quick-witted, unforgettable Savvy...

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . . Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,”...

2 BOOKS FROM THE BESTSELLING SERIES FOR THE PRICE OF 1! OR FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED! ALSO INCLUDES AN OFFER FOR A FREE STORY IN THE SERIES PLUS 2 DELICIOUS RECIPES DIRECTLY FROM THE STORIES! CONTAINS: BOOK 1: A Cherry Sinister Murder Faith Franklin is a dreamer. She dreams of cakes & pies. She dreams of crepes & brownies. And, more than anything, she dreams of making a career of serving her delicious treats to an adoring public. So, when her grandmother calls and asks her to move to Florida to help run her café, she cannot get out of Minnesota fast enough! And before she knows it, she is...

One dead wellness guru. One herbalist consultant. And someone determined to make her the prime suspect. Fiona Firth agreed to review Phoenix Thorne's ritual preparations as a professional favor. Finding him dead the next morning wasn't part of the deal. Now the authorities want to know why she was the last person to examine his supplies. Her bistro's good name is on the line…again. And the real killer is perfectly content letting her take the blame. A bitter rival with public threats. A facility manager facing financial ruin. Secrets stacked as carefully as the meditation cushions. ...

A missing friend. A seaside town full of secrets. A chef who won’t stop until she uncovers the truth. When a close friend vanishes on the Oregon Coast, restaurateur and former detective Lily Good feels that familiar pull back into sleuthing. By day, Lily keeps The Good Chef humming—chopping, stirring, and serving comfort on a plate. By night, she follows a trail of half-truths, anonymous tips, and small-town whispers that all point to something much bigger than a simple disappearance. As tides shift and loyalties waver, Lily teams up with her detective boyfriend, Lance Phillips, to sift...

Stress-free weekend in Boston... ...not when the woman who owns the business next to yours is murdered. Isabella had planned a stress-free weekend at a small-business conference with her cousins. Instead of learning how to cross-promote her apothecary, she's got another murder to solve. But will the Boston Police Department let her? The obvious suspect is the victim's abusive husband... ...until he comes up with an iron-clad alibi. Even then, Isabella is convinced he's the culprit. But if he’s guilty, why did he call Detective Palmer to help with the investigation? When a second person is...

Everyone's a critic. But sometimes words cut deep and the wounds turned deadly. That's what happened to Claude Giraud, the top restaurant critic in town. He had run afoul of the wrong restaurateur, and it is now up to amateur sleuth Hope Hadley to figure out which one.

FAITH FRANKLIN IS BACK! If you've gotten to know Faith in the 1st four "Slice of Paradise" stories and you're hungry for more...IT'S TIME! Join her in her 5th adventure, Pecan Flan Murder Plan! It's gonna be "Flan-tastic!" Faith Franklin is over the moon about the grand opening of Paradise Falls, a beautiful nature preserve she’s helped bring to the community. Between the gorgeous surroundings, the friendly people and the majestic animals, nothing could ruin this day! Well, almost nothing. One of the preserve’s staff members has been found murdered, and there seem to be countless leads ...

The weight of a long-buried secret can haunt a man's present. For Cooper Hudson, a thriving Seattle businessman, his past has returned with a vengeance. Suddenly, the unexpected death of Javier, a college companion from decades ago, is casting a dark shadow over Cooper's prosperous life. Back in those college days, heartbreak and jealousy clouded the air as Cooper's relationship with Juliana ended, only for her to find solace in Javier's arms. Their contentious history, marked by public confrontations, now places Cooper squarely in the crosshairs of a dogged detective, convinced that old ...

Angie Turner's restaurant, The County Seat, is conveniently located near a first-class farmers market - so her menu is full of fresh ingredients. But a visiting culinary professor has just had a taste of something very unhealthy.... Angie first meets Daniel Monet at a local mission, where she and her chef-in-training, Hope, are serving barbecued chicken poutine to the homeless. Monet is one of Hope's teachers - but Angie's boyfriend knows him from his youthful days in England. But soon, the bon vivant is no longer vivant.

Mahalia's Sweet Tea boasts the most flavorful soul food in all of Prince George's County, Maryland. But as events at the beauty industry's leading trade show turn ugly, owner Halia Watkins needs to bite into an unsavory new item on the menu - murder!

Eleanor Delaney didn't show up to her booth at Millfield Market Saturday morning. The herbalist never missed a day in fifteen years. When visiting chef Fiona Firth finds her dead in her potting shed, the police call it a tragic accident. But Fiona sees what they miss: staged evidence, switched labels, and a killer who made one critical mistake. Dr. Nina Chen blamed Eleanor for stealing patients. Kevin Delaney inherits his aunt's waterfront cottage after months of bitter fights. Both claim innocence. With hidden journals hinting at danger, boot prints that don't belong, and a poisoned drink ...

Welcome to The Ghoulish Gourmet—where the food is frightfully delicious and the mystery is killer. Morty Graves, a passionate Halloween enthusiast and eccentric chef, runs Hollow Creek’s most infamous spooky-themed restaurant, serving up grotesque gourmet dishes like severed fingers, eyeball pasta, and bloody beet soup. But when a real corpse shows up in his kitchen, his creepy culinary dream turns into a murder mystery nightmare. Now framed for murder and tangled in a sinister plot, Morty must uncover the secrets lurking beneath Hollow Creek’s charming surface. With twists around ...

When a feared food critic comes to Nueva Vida, every chef in town holds their breath. This reviewer has destroyed careers with a single scathing article, and now they're here to pass judgment on the local dining scene. But someone has already delivered their own verdict—served with a final course of poison. The critic is found dead after what should have been a career-making tasting menu, killed by a bitter compound so expertly disguised that only a culinary master could have pulled it off. With every local chef now a suspect—including Eliza's friend Alistair—she's forced to ...