Cozy Culinary

When cupcake-loving croupier Tiffany Black is asked to investigate a suspicious book club member, she never expects her client to disappear under mysterious circumstances. But when Violeta Redgrave goes missing, Tiffany and Ian find themselves trying to uncover just what happened to her, and why she hired them in the first place… Meanwhile, Tiffany is house-sitting for her friend Jack Weber, and she and Ian find themselves entangled with an unusual secret society. Praise for A.R. Winters: "Fans of Stephanie Plum, meet Tiffany Black, A.R. Winters's new heroine." - Rea, Amazon.com "You fall...

**BONUS BEADED BRACELET PATTERN IN THE BOOK** Holly Harper's life is finally getting back on the right track after her divorce from "what's his name." She and a group of divorcees have formed a strong bond plotting creative ways to get back at their exes and created a self-help group known as The Divorced Divas where their meetings are held in Holly's bead store, The Beaded Dragonfly. It’s no secret that Holly’s ex husband, Sean Harper, and the wealthiest bachelor in Swanee, Doug Sloan, don’t get along because Sean is constantly fixing all of Doug’s shoddy handy man work. Plus all ...

Anonymous Note Screams Murder It's Christmas in Pelican Cove and the town is bursting with Yuletide spirit. Jenny King comes home from the tree lighting ceremony to a strange letter on her doorstep. The anonymous sender claims a gruesome murder has taken place and urges her to find the killer. Jenny plunges into the investigation, only to find that the letter might have been fake. Refusing to give up, Jenny keeps digging for clues. Her friends think she's on a wild goose chase and the whole town thinks she's lost it. But Jenny follows her gut, sure that a crime has been committed. Meanwhile...

St. Valentine’s Day is THE perfect day for a wedding. Unless a vandal is trying to ruin your life that is. Callie is finally getting her dream wedding. On St. Valentine’s Day no less. Only a vandal is determined to destroy her bakery before the wedding can occur. Anna, self-proclaimed best cupcake baker this side of the Mississippi, is not letting anything happen to the cupcake bakery. No way. Barista extraordinaire Kristie jumps at the chance to help as well. Together the three women launch a mission to find the jerk who thinks it’s okay to attack the bakery. Will the gals of ...

The London cops knocking on the door are looking for a murderer. The American couple who answer the door- aren’t the right Americans. Or are they? They claim to be house sitters Joan and Alen Arny. Alen’s a former Texas sheriff. But the cops aren’t sure what to believe. The homeowners are Addison and Layne Cotton, also the owners of the consignment shop Love it or Thrift it. Their business rival is dead- a victim of murder. The Cotton’s just flew to the United States, for their first trip home in five years. Talk about bad timing. Now they look even more suspicious of murder. Do ...

A little haunting sounds like innocent fun until a ghost plunders your stockroom. Kristie is convinced ghosts don’t exist until food starts disappearing without a trace from the Youth Center storage. There are zero clues as to who’s been inside the building. The security guard hasn’t seen a thing, and the security tapes are mysteriously blank. When the ghost widens his hocus-pocus to include Kristie’s office, the gals of Callie’s Cakes jump in to find the culprit before Kristie can get in a whole mess of spooky trouble. Will the gals of Callie’s Cakes expose the ghost before ...

Christmas is just around the corner, and the entire town of Bramblett County, Georgia is ready and waiting for the big event!But a terrible tragedy threatens the celebration and leaves a key component of the holiday dead. Now Lily must uncover the truth and save Bramblett County’s Christmas before it’s too late. If you like southern cozy mysteries, you'll love this little independent holiday novella along with the rest of the Lily Sprayberry Realtor Cozy Mystery series! Get it now! This novella was originally publishing in the Sleigh Bells and Sleuthing Collection.

Get ready to cook up a generous helping of Pricilla Crumb and her hilarious schemes to serve up justice in this first book in the series. Pricilla Crumb, a superb cook and articulate hostess, plans an informal buffet at her son’s mountain lodge, but the dinner party turns to chaos when a guest is found dead after sampling one of her salmon-filled tartlets. Pricilla’s determination to save her reputation and find out the truth begins her unofficial career as a novice detective—and second chance for romance.

Revenge. Jealousy. Love. Money. Which is the perfect ingredient in a recipe for murder? Everybody loves the Queen of Baking, Cherry Bakewell, don’t they? Apparently not... because Cherry is found dead with a poisoned cupcake in her hand just before the Grand Bake Off competition is about to kick off. Wannabe baker and amateur sleuth Lizzie is horrified to hear of her baking heroine’s death but things quickly turn from bad to worse when she discovers Jack, the local private investigator and the man she’s dating, is being treated as a suspect in the case by the local police! As if her ...

Death on the Seine - a delightful cozy mystery set in Paris, a city where food, wine, and crime make life worth living… along with a few books and Mercury, the cat. For Ava Sext, a transplanted Londoner who sells books from an outdoor stand overlooking the Seine, her day goes from bad to worse when the tall, handsome stranger whose appearance her horoscope predicted disappears after he is almost killed before her eyes. And that's before she discovers that he supposedly died weeks earlier. With the help of her fellow bookseller, Henri DeAth, a former notary in a country where notaries are ...

A baking competition. A small-town sabotage. And one Boston Terrier with a nose for trouble. Claire Fisher thought judging the Marigold Lake Summer Bake-Off would be a sweet break from B&B chaos—until flaky pastries start turning into full-blown mysteries. Someone is tampering with ingredients, swapping labels, and sabotaging recipes. When her late aunt’s beloved shortbread formula becomes the saboteur’s next target, Claire has no choice but to follow the crumbs. With the help of her sarcastic best friend Hannah, an increasingly suspicious Detective Matt Hale, and Sadie—the Boston ...

*Awarded Best Mystery/Suspense Novel ~ N.N. Light's Book Heaven* Cupcakes make everything better - even murder investigations! I may be the best cupcake baker this side of the Mississippi, but that doesn't mean I'm some sweet, innocent thing. Nope! When I discover my friend murdered, no way am I sitting back and letting the police handle it. Together with my bakery buddies, Callie and Kristie, this murder is getting solved. I don't care how dangerous it gets. Bring it on. Some stupid undercover cop who decides he's my protector is not stopping me. Click BUY NOW to find out if the gals of ...

From a hellacious hurricane, to chasing cold case killers, to uncovering a dirty secret out at sea, Lilly’s awful good at finding trouble—and answers. Join Lilly and the quirky Drifter's Cove gang as the mysterious action continues in this second Magnolia Manor trilogy. Squalls. Scandals. Secrets. Murder. Welcome to Drifter’s Cove. This second compilation includes: A Mysterious Arrangement A Deadly Combination A Treacherous TideEnjoy books 4, 5, and 6 in the ongoing Magnolia Manor Mystery series, with more to come!

*** USA TODAY BESTSELLER AUTHOR*** Brassy, sassy southern babe Laurel London is back! Once again, the entire Laurel London crew is in action, including Trixie Turner, and trying to figure out who is the mastermind behind the Glitz and Glam casino heist. The heist king blackmails Laurel into believing Laurel’s long time best friend, Derek Smitherman, will be on the other end of the vigilante gun if she doesn’t help in stealing the money using her history of petty crime. Cursed with a disastrous new task of putting her amateur sleuth skills to work and an increasing sense that it's really...

When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case.

The real estate market is a tough business. When Bramblett County Realtor Lily Sprayberry finds a listing agent bound and tied in a new home, she fears the person responsible is her client. Lily isn’t one to let things lie, and since the cops don’t seem to be doing much, she does a little investigating herself. What she finds is a web of lies and competition. Can Lily untangle the clues and find the villain, or will she become the next victim trapped in the web?

Set in the biggest small town in the country, Susan and Mike travel to St. Louis for their son’s Match Day ceremony. At the reception, the dean of the medical school drops dead under mysterious circumstances. Susan smells foul play. Teaming up with the detective’s mother, it's double trouble as she and her new bestie uncover secrets worthy of murder in Murder is Medical. In Murder is Universal, Susan and Valerie are on a flight when they discover the passenger in the middle seat dead on arrival. The dynamic duo is convinced it was murder. The dead passenger, owner of a successful ...

A Cupcakes-And-Crime Caper Roger Owen’s business isn’t doing well, and when he takes his wife and son to glitzy, glamorous Las Vegas for some quality family vacation time, he brings along a surprising +1: his mistress! "Winters will have you giggling into your book!" Life seems to pick up for Roger when he wins a huge jackpot… until someone gleefully kills him on the casino floor. Caught in the hot seat as suspect number one, Roger’s wife Wendy hires Tiffany and Ian to clear her name and to solve the mystery of who really killed Roger Owen—even though it may very well be black ...

When Maddy Montgomery’s groom is a no-show to their livestream wedding, it’s a disaster that no amount of filtering can fix. But a surprise inheritance offers a chance to regroup and rebrand—as long as Maddy is willing to live in her late, great-aunt Octavia’s house in New Bison, Michigan, for a year, running her bakery and caring for a 250-pound English mastiff named Baby. Maddy feels ready to tackle any challenge, including Octavia’s award-winning cake recipes. That is, until New Bison’s mayor is fatally stabbed, and Maddy’s fingerprints are found on the knife.…

Welcome to Whispering Falls, where magic whispers and a cozy mystery unfurls! 'A Charming Hexorcist' beckons you into an enchanting world where the paranormal is the new normal. June Heal, our endearing and clever sleuth, is not your typical small-town woman. By day, she tends to the mystical needs of the community, crafting spells and potions with loving care. By night, she's a devoted mother raising her little magical daughter. Life is anything but mundane in this enchanting supernatural town! However, tranquility shatters when a chilling murder sends ripples through Whispering Falls. ...