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  Fresh-Baked Mystery: Book 1

  A Peach of a Murder

  by Livia J. Washburn

  Fresh out of the oven: the first in a new series of baking mysteries. Includes recipes! All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as peach pie-except during the Peach Festival, whose blue ribbon has slipped through Phyllis's fingers more than once... Everyone's a little shook up when the corpse of a no-good local turns up underneath a car in a local garage. But even as Phyllis... (more)
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  Avery Andrews: Book 1

  Southern Fried

  by Cathy Pickens

  Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a high-powered law firm. She's come back home to Dacus where the vehicle of choice is a pickup truck with a dog chained in the back. Avery wants time to rethink her career and her life. What she gets is a bossy great aunt drumming up clients and dragging her to social teas. That's how Avery ends up hired by a local... (more)
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  Trailer Park Mystery: Book 2

  Murder Over Easy

  by Jimmie Ruth Evans

  Melvin Arbuckle, Wanda Nell's boss at the Kountry Kitchen, has been arrested for killing a waitress with an unsavory reputation. Convinced of Melvin's innocence, Wanda Nell puts herself on the trail of a ruthless killer-and almost gets her goose cooked.
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  Sophie Greenway Series: Book 6

  Dial M for Meat Loaf

  by Ellen Hart

  RECIPE FOR MURDER As Minnesota housewives race to meet the deadline for the Times Register? s meat loaf contest, an unsavory small-towner named Kirby Runbeck is blown to smithereens by a car bomb. Days later, the town?s former mayor, John Washburn, near death from a stroke, confesses to the killing. His wife and two children vehemently deny it, but when Sophie Greenway, food maven and friend of the family,... (more)
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  Madeline Bean Culinary Mystery: Book 4

  Dim Sum Dead

  by Jerrilyn Farmer

  Mah-Jongg? Yep. In hip Hollywood, that kitsch old game is fast becoming the next "new" obsession -- and that calls for a party! Madeline Bean and her charming partner Wesley Westcott are determined to throw a gonzo Chinese New Year banquet. But among the hot mah-jongg tiles, the steamy dim sum, and the frosty Singapore slings, no one expects to find one of the players ice-cold dead! Meanwhile, in one of the... (more)
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  Mystery with Recipes: Book 3

  A Catered Christmas

  by Isis Crawford

  As picturesque Longley, New York, gets ready to ring in the holiday season, caterers Bernadette and Libby Simmons are coping with their busiest time of year. If that's not enough to make them run around like crazed elves, they're recruited for a cooking show contest that pits celebrity chefs against each other--and gives rise to murder... Visions of sugar plums are most decidedly not dancing in Libby's... (more)
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  Nick and Julia Lambros: Book 1

  So Dear To Wicked Men (So Dear to Wicked Men)

  by Takis Iakovou

  Business has never been better at the Oracle Cafe in Delphi, Georgia, until one of the regulars orders breakfast and is served up murder. All the evidence points to owner and chef Nick Lambros. As Nick reluctantly surrenders his hash browns into the capable hands of Spiro, a gentle giant from Crete, he and Julia dig into the main course of dirty deals and stone-cold murder, complete with a killer who will stop at... (more)
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  Dine and Die on the Danube Express: A Gourmet Detective Mystery

  by Peter King

  The world-famous Gourmet Detective gets a taste for scrumptious Mitteleuropean cuisine-and intrigue! The stately Danube Express starts in the Alps and cuts through Austria, Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia, before pulling up on the shores of the Black Sea in Romania. Along the way, its passengers-hailing from Europe's elites-sample the best and most enticing foods these countries' cuisines have to offer, dishes... (more)
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  Beat Until Stiff

  by Claire M. Johnson

  Experienced pastry chef Johnson whips up an insider look at San Francisco?s cut-throat restaurant trade. Cranky Mary Ryan has sunk a lot of time and talent into the in-vogue American Fare, the town?s hottest spot, while grieving over her broken marriage. At work very early one morning, she steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation soon exposes all the dirty... (more)
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  Manor House: Book 6

  Berried Alive

  by Kate Kingsbury

  MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE...In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, lady of the Manor House, stubbornly insists that life must go on. Sitting Marsh residents depend on Elizabeth to make sure things go smoothly. Which means... (more)
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  Madeline Bean Culinary Mystery: Book 1

  Sympathy for the Devil

  by Jerrilyn Farmer

  Madeline Bean, caterer to the stars, is in the middle of the biggest job of her career. She and her partner Wesley have pulled off Hollywood's most outrageous A-list Halloween party for notorious producer Bruno Huntley, complete with an eerie fortuneteller who is astonishingly accurate, and exotic food that's to die for. Before long, Bruno is thrashing and writhing out on the dance floor. Just one problem: he's... (more)
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  Hemlock Falls: Book 11

  A Puree of Poison

  by Claudia Bishop

  Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sisters have to rely on other skills--spotting clues, solving crimes, catching culprits...The 133rd anniversary of the Battle of Hemlock Falls is fast... (more)
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  Hemlock Falls: Book 14

  Ground to a Halt

  by Claudia Bishop

  Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sisters have to rely on other skills--spotting clues, solving crimes, and catching culprits.The fate of livestock everywhere hangs in the... (more)
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  Hemlock Falls: Book 13

  A Dinner To Die For

  by Claudia Bishop

  Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sisters have to rely on other skills-spotting clues, solving crimes, catching culprits...A nudie bar in Hemlock Falls? Not if the good ladies of the village... (more)
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  Hemlock Falls: Book 6

  A Touch of the Grape

  by Claudia Bishop

  Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate NewYork. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sisters have to rely on other skills--spotting clues, solving crimes, catching culprits...With upstate NewYork in the midst of a tourist slump, rah and Meg... (more)
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  Little Indiscretions: A Delectable Mystery

  by Carmen Posadas

  A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is part ingeniously entertaining whodunit and part sparkling social satire. Business is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he’s invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol. When Nestor is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer with a notebook in his hand, the party... (more)
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  Maggy Thorsen: Book 1

  Uncommon Grounds

  by Sandra Balzo

  Patricia Harper has been killed by an espresso machine hot-wired to electrocute its owner - and in Uncommon Grounds, her very own gourmet coffee store, on opening day. Maggy Thorsen, displaced PR executive turned coffee maven, wants to know who killed her partner and put the future of Uncommon Grounds in jeopardy. Maggy desperately needs the store to succeed, so she joins forces with Sarah Kingstown, Patricia's... (more)
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  Midnight Louie Short Stories: Book 7

  Death Dines In

  by Carole Nelson Douglas, Claudia Bishop

  Stories by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry and Carole Nelson Douglas, Lyn Hamilton, Claudia Bishop, Donna Andrews, Rhys Bowen, Don Bruns, Meg Chittenden, Nick DiChario, Marcos Donnelly, Elizabeth Foxwell, and many more.
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  A Heaven Lee Culinary Mystery: Book 1

  Death By Rhubarb

  by Lou Jane Temple

  At Cafe Heaven, the souffles don't fall, but the bodies do. Heaven Lee is sassy, brassy, and street-smart. She's also one of Kansas City's premier caterers. With a string of failed careers and stalled marriages behind her, Heaven's finally found her true love-Cafe Heaven, a trendy restaurant on midtown 39th. Open-mike night at Cafe Heaven gets pretty hairy, but Heaven is shocked when lovely lawyer Tasha Arnold... (more)
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  Stain-Busting Mysteries: Book 2

  Death by Deep Dish Pie

  A Toadfern Mystery

  by Sharon Gwyn Short

  Like nearly everyone else in Paradise, Ohio, local laundromat owner and stain-removal expert Josie Toadfern eagerly awaits the upcoming July 4th Founders Day celebration with its highlight, the annual Breitenstrater Pie Company pie-eating contest, sponsored by the owners of the town's upper crust enterprise. But things may not be so sweet this year, what with juicy rumors flying that a black sheep Breitenstrater... (more)