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When amateur baker, and now amateur sleuth, Rosie Hart finds herself embroiled in another mystery in rural Airlie Falls, Texas, she can’t believe her bad luck. Soon the town is reeling from a murder, an unidentified body, a late mayoral challenge, missing town money, and a strange group of socialites gathered at a mansion out of town. With so many of her new friends suspected of wrongdoing, Rosie can’t sit on the sidelines any longer. She’s convinced these strange occurrences are connected, but she’s running out of time to prove how.

After a class of children falls mysteriously ill and their teacher dies from eating poisoned sausage rolls, suspicion falls on mill owner Louise Wilkins. Working with her aristocratic friend Sybbie and the ever-skeptical DI Colin Bradshaw, Georgina delves into the mill's dark history and uncovers a chilling parallel: over a century earlier, the miller's daughter was accused of poisoning a local family with arsenic-laced flour.

Cindy Kwan, owner of Asia Village’s bookshop, The Modern Scroll, is privileged to host best-selling author Charlene Chan for a signing in honor of the writer’s latest book, The Mystery of General Tso. Lana Lee is equally excited for the appearance of her favorite author and even more so when Cindy asks her to be Charlene’s “handler” for the event. Taking her duties very seriously, Lana stays by the side of the prominent author to assist in anything that she might need.

England 1921. Lady Elizabeth Gaskins is throwing a big party to celebrate her birthday. But when an odious guest gets killed and steals her thunder, her father, the Earl of Buxley, becomes a suspect. After all, he came to blows with the dead man in front of several witnesses. Determined to find out who murdered his childhood friend, Lord Buxley summons a detective from Scotland Yard. Not to be outdone, Lady Bess and her spunky cohorts, the oldest Dowager Countess and great aunts, embark on a hunt for the killer.

When twenty-five-year-old Danika Delaney, black sheep of the Delaney clan, returns home to Long Island to take over Jimmie's, her eccentric uncle's old fashioned malt shop on eastern Long Island, she's not exactly thrilled. But things start to look up when her uncle tells her she can do whatever she'd like with the shop, and it seems she might realize her dream of a small trendy cafe. That is, until she discovers the body of her ex-boyfriend's estranged wife in a melted puddle of rocky road in the malt shop basement.

Ground Rules isn't the only newcomer set to open in Portland's grand new Button Building. Fortunately, most of the fellow micro-restaurant owners and patrons are great-with two exceptions. There's Rose, a true-crime podcaster and active TikToker who's pestering Sage for an interview about her estranged con-artist mother; and Bianca, the familiar and perpetually unpleasant owner of Breakfast Bandits. Bianca is abrasive to everyone, so Sage doesn't feel singled out . . . Until Bianca falls dead at the building's grand opening-a to-go cup of Ground Rules coffee in her hand. 

In this debut volume, cooking aficionado turned amateur detective Sadie Hoffmiller tries to solve the murder of her beautiful young neighbor—a single mother who was mysteriously lured from her home while a lemon tart was baking in her oven.

She can plot out the perfect murder mystery… But can she solve one in real life? When an amnesiac man covered in blood mysteriously appears in the woods during her morning run, retired amateur sleuth, Jen, promises to stay away from the case. She has a murder mystery to write, and absolutely...

Paris, 1937. Kitty Underhay, with a croissant in hand and her handsome husband Matt by her side, is soaking up the delightfully Parisian charms of the French capital. Kitty attends a fashion show where she is enamoured by the dazzling gowns, but the afternoon takes a very sour turn when one of the models, Simone Belliste, is found dead with a pair of razor sharp tailoring scissors nearby.

A delightful vacation. An astonishing dispatchment. Will she uncover why the victim was fatally retired? Leta Parker has rest and relaxation on her social agenda. Arriving at a luxurious Cotswold estate with her friends for a winter retreat, the recently engaged fifty-something is happily...

Daisy Swanson's daughter Jazzi has moved away to the lakeside town of Belltower Landing, but the apple doesn't fall from the tree. Much like Daisy, she's running a tea bar and bookshop—and has a knack for getting into hot water . . . Town librarian Mathilda has a troublesome new employee, and...

After years of planning and hard work, Merry Wynter was finally ready to host the grand opening gala of the Wynter Woods Center for the Performing Arts. With musicians, entertainers, members of the media and even influencers on the guest list, the event went off without a hitch—until a particularly nasty journalist posted a criticism of the gala and everything Merry was trying to accomplish.

Ein Frühling im Veltlin, der alles verändert: Eigentlich wollte Reisejournalistin Mira Belgusto nur über Wein, leckeres Essen und die italienische Lebensart berichten. Doch als sie gemeinsam mit dem charmanten Ex-TV-Moderator Claudio Bertani über die Leiche der Winzerin Lucrezia Bianchi stolpert, ist es vorbei mit la dolce vita! Zwischen malerischen Weinbergen und köstlichen Antipasti geraten Mira und Claudio mitten in einen Mordfall.

Darci Hannah presents book two in the Food and Spirits Mystery series.

Weihnachten in La Ganipote: Während das kleine Dorf Heiligabend feiert, wird am Hafen ein menschlicher Schädel entdeckt – ausgerechnet in der Hütte, in der Serge, der Dorfpolizist, sein Restaurant eröffnen will. Babette Fleurentin, pensionierte Pariserin mit kriminalistischem Spürsinn und einer Vorliebe für selbst gemachte Konfitüren, wittert eine interessante Geschichte und beschließt, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Unterdessen ermittelt Inspektor Jean-Luc Perez in einem fünfzehn Jahre alten Vermisstenfall und stößt dabei auf undurchsichtige Immobiliengeschäfte.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A dead body washes up on the shore, a mysterious woman hides too many secrets, and whispers of an international criminal ring fill the night… While would-be chef Angie Amalfi nervously awaits her engagement party with her swoon-worthy fiancé...

Nach einer gescheiterten Ehe hat Jennifer Hampton genug vom Londoner Großstadtleben. Zusammen mit ihrer Teenager-Tochter Nelly wagt sie im idyllischen Küstenstädtchen Portley in Cornwall einen Neuanfang. Sie zieht bei ihrer Tante Anne ein, die über ihrer legendären Pastetenbäckerei New Cornish Pasty lebt. Doch von einem ruhigen Neustart kann keine Rede sein. Schon am dritten Tag taucht ein aufgebrachter Fremder im Laden auf, verlangt lautstark nach Anne, kauft schließlich eine Pastete und bricht kurz darauf vor der Tür tot zusammen.

A brand-new series from the queen of culinary cozies. Full to the brim with crochet, crumpets, and crime! The perfect ingredients for murder . . . Annie Hart has transformed the yarn shop she inherited into a thriving business and tea shop. Now she needs to sell it so she can move back to LA...

When murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to air out all the dirty laundry in Shady Palms to catch a killer… Lila Macapagal's godmothers April, Mae, and June—AKA the Calendar Crew—are celebrating the opening of their latest joint...

Krissy's helping a friend clean out her late mother's house when she learns that although the deceased died peacefully at an advanced age, her brother did not. In fact, Wade was killed more than 30 years ago, and the case was never closed. What surprises Krissy even more is that she has a personal connection to the story - her friend Rita was seeing Wade at the time, scandalizing the town with the couple's large age difference.