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Aunt Octavia would be so proud! Maddy has turned Baby Cakes Bakery—named for her 250-pound English Mastiff, Baby—into a runaway success, and she’s marrying the love of her life, veterinarian Michael Portman. #DreamWedding! Plus the timing couldn’t be better: the country’s biggest bridal expo has come to New Bison, Michigan, and Maddy has secured a spot for Baby Cakes to showcase their cakes. She’s also entered a contest for an all-expenses-paid wedding extravaganza offered by world-renowned wedding planner Serafina.

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.…

1926: Harriet Stone, a liberated, educated Black woman, and Lovey, the orphaned, biracial, 12-year-old she is bound to protect are Harlem-bound, embarking on a new, hopefully less traumatic, chapter in their lives. They have been invited to move from Connecticut by Harriet’s cousin, Junetta Plum, who runs a boarding house for independent-minded single women. It’s a bold move since Harriet has never met Junetta, but the fatalities of the Spanish flu and other tragedies have already forced her and Lovey to face their worst fears.

Agnès non crede alle sue orecchie quando viene a sapere del decesso della zia. Non è possibile, la zia Colette è morta tre anni prima, riposa al cimitero di Gueugnon, c’è il suo nome sulla lapide... In quanto parente più prossima tocca ad Agnès andare a riconoscere il cadavere, e non c’è dubbio, si tratta proprio della zia Colette. Ma allora chi c’è nella sua tomba? E perché per tre anni Colette ha fatto credere a tutti di essere morta? È l’inizio di un’indagine a ritroso nel tempo.

Helen Appleby just wants a quiet life. Recently released from prison for the manslaughter of her partner, she's trying to forget her past mistakes—all of them—to rebuild her life and move on. When she decides to open a bookshop, she’s certain this is the perfect new start. Here, amongst the quiet shelves of her shop and between the covers of her books, she can hide away from the real world and begin again. But the past can never stay hidden…

Assistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan's blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students. But Nan's bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead in his office, everyone suspects activist Nan. But she is innocent.

Until now, Odessa Jones's inherited ability to read emotions and foretell danger has protected her. But second sight didn't warn her she would soon be a widow - and about to lose her home and the catering business she's worked so hard to build. The only things keeping Dessa going are her love for baking and her sometimes-mellow cat, Juniper. Unfortunately, putting her life back together means taking a gig at an all-kinds-of-shady real estate firm run by volatile owner Charlie Risko. Until Charlie is brutally killed - and Dessa's bullied coworker is arrested for murder.

Eigentlich hat Delphine Gueron der Verbrecherjagd nach ihrer Pensionierung adieu gesagt und ist in ihre alte Heimat an die Atlantikküste gezogen. Als ihre schwerreiche Freundin Aurélie vom Balkon ihrer Suite im noblen Hôtel Atlantique stürzt, ist Delphines alter Spürsinn geweckt. Zusammen mit dem jungen Halbalgerier Karim beginnt sie zu ermitteln. Auch Karim, den Delphine und Aurélie vor einer Einbrecherkarriere bewahrt haben, glaubt nicht an einen Unfall.

Recently widowed Odessa Jones is sure the exclusive catering job she's scored from wealthy businessman Casey Osborne will propel her catering career into the big leagues. So when Dessa's pesky second sight warns her that Osborne is bad news, she ignores it. She wishes she hadn't when he drops dead at his brunch after sampling her homemade preserves. Osborne's death is declared a homicide. Dessa and the friends who helped her cook are considered suspects . . .

With small town New Bison’s Spring Festival just around the corner, the pressure is on Maddy to continue her late great-aunt Octavia’s legacy. That means scoring the top prize and transforming Baby Cakes into Southwest Michigan’s must-visit bakery, even though her inexperience in the kitchen brings nightmares of humiliating tagged photos and scathing reviews.

Thanks to Maddy’s social media savvy, Baby Cakes Bakery is becoming a huge success—so much so that she’s attracted the attention of her former nemesis, the fiancé-stealing Brandy Denton. When Brandy blows into New Bison like an ill wind and disrupts a vlog Maddy’s filming, their argument goes viral. After Brandy’s body is found at Baby Cakes, Maddy instantly goes from viral sensation to murder suspect.

With pandemic-fearing city dwellers fleeing to the New Jersey suburbs, Risko Realty—and Odessa Jones—are having their best year ever. Finally on solid financial footing, Odessa is debt-free and looking forward to the future. But she doesn't need second sight to sense her new young co-worker, Anna Lee, is on edge—and straight-up terrified—in spite of her hot sales record and sunny, outgoing attitude. And when Anna is killed in a hit-and-run, Odessa sees immediately that it was no accident.

Als Alleinerziehende stets knapp bei Kasse, nimmt Tamara den Auftrag des Investmentbankers Lincoln Storey an: Sie soll den Freund seiner Stieftochter Alexa beschatten – ausgerechnet ein Exlover Tamaras. Doch ehe sie auch nur den ersten Honorarscheck erhält, ist der Auftraggeber tot und Privates nicht mehr von Beruflichem zu trennen. Tiefer und tiefer dringt Tamara in die undurchsichtige Vergangenheit des Investmentbankers ein und riskiert dabei ihr eigenes Leben.

Tamara Hayle hat ihren Job als Polizistin an den Nagel gehängt, ihrem Ehemann DeWayne den Laufpass gegeben und schlägt sich alleine als Privatdetektivin auf dem harten Pflaster von Newark, New Jersey, durch. Doch DeWayne, Vater ihres Teenagersohnes Jamal, meldet sich spätestens, wenn er in Schwierigkeiten ist. Terrence, sein Sohn aus einer anderen Beziehung, ist ums Leben gekommen. Nun fürchtet Tamara um ihr eigenes Kind: "Wenn wir abwarteten, bis die Polizei die Sache in die Hand nahm, würde Jamal sterben."

Bessie Raymond steht mit all ihrem Ersparten bei Tamara Hayle im Büro: Tamara soll den Mörder ihres Sohnes finden. Die Cops haben den Fall längst als einen weiteren Mord zwischen Schwarzen abgetan, nicht der Ermittlung wert. Privatdetektivin Tamara Hayle, die selbst einen Sohn hat, ruht nicht, bis sie den Täter gefunden hat. Ihre Erkundungen führen in die Küchen und guten Stuben von Newark. Doch kaum hat sie alles herausbekommen, nimmt das Unglück erneut seinen Lauf.