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Sarah Stall traded her corporate corner office for four-thirty mornings and flour-dusted counters, and she's never looked back. Her cozy café, Bagels & Beans, has become the heart of small-town Clancy—a place where regulars claim their favorite booths, gossip travels faster than the coffee pours, and her loyal mutt Bean greets every customer with a wagging tail. When a famous food critic walks through her door promising to put her everything bagels on the map, Sarah thinks her dreams are finally coming true. Then he collapses at her best table, and suddenly she's not famous for her ...

Welcome to Bagels & Beans, the coziest café in Clancy, where the coffee is always hot, the bagels are hand-rolled fresh each morning, and murder has a way of interrupting the breakfast rush. Sarah Stall traded her corporate life for small-town dreams, and she's built something special in her little corner of Main Street. But between a charming veterinarian who makes her heart race, a loyal mutt named Bean who has a nose for trouble, and a tight-knit group of regulars who feel like family, Sarah keeps finding herself tangled up in deadly mysteries that threaten everything she loves. From a ...

The Buttercream & Batter Mysteries The Complete Six-Book Collection Welcome to William's Cove, a small coastal New England town where the harbor smells like salt and possibility, the bakery on Main Street is always warm, and the locals are exactly as charming and complicated as small-town people tend to be. Fanny Fairchild owns The Sugared Spatula, bakes the best shortcake in three counties, employs the most endearingly clumsy apprentice in the history of pastry, and — through absolutely no plan of her own — has become William's Cove's most reliable solver of murders. Her partner in ...

Blair Whitcome left Chicago's cutthroat restaurant scene for a quieter life on the Gulf Coast, and for three years, Pelican Harbor has delivered exactly that — salt air, good gossip, and the satisfaction of feeding a town that has slowly, generously become home. Blair's Bistro sits at the warm center of Main Street, and Blair herself sits at the warm center of the community, known for her grandmother's cast-iron recipes, her sharp instincts, and an enormous, unbothered tabby cat named Lil' Beefy who supervises the kitchen from atop the walk-in cooler and considers mouse-catching a ...

Fanny Fairchild has exactly one goal for the William's Cove town planning meeting: deliver her Millionaire's Shortcake, collect her check, and fix the walk-in cooler that's been humming in the key of B-flat ever since her apprentice tried to repair it with duct tape. But when the meeting's most controversial guest — a big-city developer with powerful enemies and a knack for making small towns miserable — ends up dead, Fanny's beautiful shortcake suddenly looks less like dessert and more like a motive. With her bakery's reputation on the line and her name in everyone's mouth, staying out...

When thirty-two-year-old Clarkson Crowder inherits her family's sprawling Kansas farm after tragedy strikes, she expects overgrown orchards, ornery tractors, and maybe a few escaped chickens. What she doesn't expect? Murder. Welcome to Meadow Creek, where the sweet corn is golden, the apple pie is homemade, and the body count keeps climbing. With her loyal dog Diddly by her side, her sharp-tongued grandmother Bea offering wisdom from her farmhouse porch, and her best friend Nora serving up gossip at the local diner, Clarkson discovers she has an unexpected talent for solving crimes that ...

Retired schoolteacher Maryanne Silva never expected her Thursday night book club to become a magnet for murder. But in the charming town of Franklin's Crossing, the Bound & Determined Book Club has a knack for stumbling onto deadly secrets between discussions of classic literature and slices of lemon bar. Together with her quick-witted best friend Gretchen Roe, Maryanne discovers that solving mysteries is a lot like reading a good novel—you just have to pay attention to the clues hiding in plain sight. From a book signing gone wrong to a lakeside retreat turned deadly, from a bitter ...

When retired schoolteacher Maryanne Silva discovers the body of the town's most disagreeable resident in the storage room of her favorite café, Thursday night book club takes an unexpected turn. Pamela Hargrave was difficult, opinionated, and on a crusade to ban a romance novel from the local library—but she certainly didn't deserve to die clutching that very book in her hands. Now Maryanne and her best friend of forty-seven years, former math teacher Gretchen Roe, find themselves trading literary analysis for real-life detective work. As the two friends dig into Pamela's past, they ...

Welcome to Peaceful Falls, where antique dealer Taylor Grey has a knack for finding treasures and an unfortunate talent for stumbling across dead bodies. Armed with sharp wit, keen instincts, and her loyal Siberian Husky companion Yukon, Taylor turns every mysterious death into a puzzle she simply cannot resist solving. From dusty estate sales to quiet small-town secrets, nothing stays hidden for long when this determined dealer starts asking questions. In this charming cozy mystery series, Taylor navigates the quirky world of antiques and the even quirkier residents of her beloved hometown...

Welcome to Pelican Harbor, a quirky coastal Louisiana town where the morning coffee is always hot, the gossip is even hotter, and the local festivals have a frustrating habit of ending in felony. At the heart of it all is Blair Whitcome — a sharp-instincted Chicago chef who traded the high-pressure restaurant world for the salt air of the Gulf Coast and opened Blair's Bistro, the culinary soul of her adopted hometown. Blair has a gift for tasting when something is off — in a sauce, in a story, or in a suspect — and that gift keeps pulling her into investigations the local detective ...

When a rival baker turns up dead in a vat of lemon curd at William's Cove's most anticipated baking competition, the contest comes to a very abrupt end — and so does any hope Fanny Fairchild had of a quiet weekend. The victim wasn't exactly beloved in the local baking community, and word is spreading fast that someone had been stealing recipes right out from under her competitors. With a killer loose among the whisks and piping bags, and Buttercream hot on a trail only he can follow, Fanny finds herself in the middle of a mystery where the sweetest competitors turn out to have the ...

When a customer returns a sourdough loaf to The Sugared Spatula with a strange complaint, Fanny Fairchild discovers something tucked inside it that was never meant to be there: a handwritten note with a cryptic string of numbers, a partial address, and a single line that reads, "The books don't balance. They never did." Around the same time, a reclusive clockmaker is found dead in his workshop under circumstances that don't quite add up. Two mysteries, seemingly unrelated — until Fanny begins to realize that a dying man deliberately chose her bakery as the place to leave his final message...

When William's Cove's newest "wellness" bakery opens its doors, Fanny Fairchild is the last person anyone expects to come to its defense — especially after its owner spent months taking shots at The Sugared Spatula's butter-and-sugar approach to life. But when that rival baker dies under mysterious circumstances and the official verdict looks suspiciously tidy, Fanny can't shake the feeling that the wrong story is being told. Arguing that a death everyone wants to call an accident is actually murder — without a crime scene, without witnesses, and against the skepticism of nearly ...

Fanny Fairchild poured everything into the wedding cake — three tiers, flawless ganache, a week of careful work — and it was, by every measure, a masterpiece. Which makes it all the more alarming when the groom drops dead before the reception is over and the phrase "death by chocolate" stops being a joke. With the wedding party stranded at the venue and everyone pointing fingers at everyone else, Fanny finds herself investigating a crime scene that happens to be decorated with her very best work, surrounded by a bridal party whose picture-perfect smiles are hiding some very ugly secrets...

The most feared food critic in the region has gone missing — and her car has turned up at the bottom of William's Cove's harbor. It would be easy enough to chalk it up to an accident, except that Fanny Fairchild knows what everyone else is starting to suspect: this particular critic was sitting on a story far more explosive than any restaurant review. Someone wanted her silenced before she could publish, and in a town full of people with secrets worth protecting, the list of suspects runs longer than the dessert menu at The Sugared Spatula. For readers who love peeling back a small town's...

When antique dealer Taylor Grey arrives at the Pemberton Estate Sale hoping to score vintage treasures, she never expects to stumble into a murder investigation. The peaceful mountain town of Peaceful Falls is rocked when a woman is found dead in the old barn, and suddenly Taylor's keen eye for spotting fakes becomes useful for more than just authenticating silverware. With her loyal Siberian Husky Yukon by her side, Taylor finds herself drawn into a web of family secrets, valuable heirlooms, and suspects who all have something to hide. As Taylor digs deeper, she discovers that nothing at ...

When the Gulf Coast Cook-Off comes to Pelican Harbor, Blair Whitcome is ready to compete — shrimp étouffée prepped, roux perfected, and her oversized tabby Lil' Beefy already supervising from the prep counter. But the competition barely gets started before television chef Wade Renaud collapses at his station in a crackle of sparks, and what looked like a tragic accident turns out to be something far more deliberate. Someone tampered with Wade's stand mixer. Someone who knew exactly how to make a kill look like a malfunction. With the cook-off suspended and a killer loose among the ...

Clarkson Crowder traded her Kansas City corporate life for two hundred acres of trouble. When she inherits her family's farm after her parents' sudden death, she expects broken tractors, stubborn fence posts, and a learning curve steeper than a grain silo. What she doesn't expect is finding her cantankerous neighbor face-down in her cornfield—and becoming the sheriff's prime suspect in his murder. With the law closing in and the whole town whispering, Clarkson has no choice but to dig for the truth herself. Armed with her grandmother's sharp wit, her best friend's endless supply of pie, ...

When Claudia Renner stumbles into the Bound & Determined Book Club's discussion of Wuthering Heights, spilling wine and accusations in equal measure, Maryanne Silva and Gretchen Roe assume it's just another small-town scandal in the making. But when Claudia is found murdered in her office the next morning—struck down with a marble bookend shaped like the scales of justice—the two best friends realize their quiet Thursday evening has become the prelude to murder. As Maryanne and Gretchen dig into Claudia's past, they discover a trail of destroyed marriages, manipulated evidence, and ...

Taylor Grey knows the thrill of winning an auction—the rush of outbidding rivals, the satisfaction of claiming a treasure before anyone else. But when she wins a stunning Victorian mourning jewelry set after a fierce online bidding war, the victory turns deadly. Arriving to pick up her prize, Taylor discovers the seller dead on his living room floor, and suddenly she's at the center of a murder investigation in Peaceful Falls. Someone poisoned Burt Fielding, and with threatening messages appearing on her phone and a mysterious woman watching from a silver sedan, Taylor realizes the killer...