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Experts in their professional lives, these amateur sleuths solve cozy culinary mysteries...with a few recipes thrown in!
 
Live and Let Chai

Bree Baker - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The first book in a delightful new beachside cozy mystery series!Trouble is brewing in Everly's new caf. Can she bag the culpritLife hasn't been so sweet for Everly Swan over the past couple of years, but now that she is back in her seaside hometown and the proud owner of a little iced...
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Pies and Prejudice: Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery Series #1

Ellery Adams - Tantor Audio
Format: Mass Market Paperback

When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flaky crust. But her pies arent just delicious. Theyre having magical effects...
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Meet Your Baker

Ellie Alexander - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

Welcome to Torte-a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it's criminal...After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon...
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The Big Chili

Julia Buckley - Berkley Prime Crime, 2015.
Format: Print book

First in a delicious new mystery series filled with casseroles, confidences, and killers...Lilah Drake's Covered Dish business discreetly provides the residents of Pine Haven, Illinois, with delicious, fresh-cooked meals they can claim they cooked themselves. But when one of her clandestine...
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Death by Darjeeling

Laura Childs - Berkley; Reissue edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback

When a man is poisoned by tea, Theo is the prime suspect. Now she has to prove her innocence and track down the real killer-before someone else takes their last sip. Just the right blend of cozy fun and clever plotting.
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By Cook or by Crook

Maya Corrigan - Kensington
Format: Book

Take one burned-out city girl. Add a crusty codger, a pinch of gossip, and a dash of romance. Stir in a generous helping of murder and you've got the ingredients for one truly delicious mystery. . .Haunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist, Val Deniston...
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On What Grounds

Cleo Coyle - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Book #1 in New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mystery series..."The perfect cup of coffee is a mystifying thing. To many of my customers, the entire process seems like some sort of alchemy they dare not try at home...." Ten years ago, Clare Cosi...
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First-Degree Fudge: A Fudge Shop Mystery

Christine DeSmet - Signet
Format: Mass Market Paperback

First in a new mystery series--includes fudge recipes!New candy store owner Ava Oosterling specializes in making heavenly homemade fudge and fresh starts. But she's just found out that her newest flavor is to die for ... . Between getting her store up and running and uneasily settling...
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Clammed Up

Barbara Ross - Kensington
Format: Book

Summer has come to Busman's Harbor, Maine, and tourists are lining up for a taste of authentic New England seafood, courtesy of the Snowden Family Clambake Company. But there's something sinister on the boil this season. A killer has crashed a wedding party, adding mystery to the menu...
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Peaches and Scream

Susan Furlong - Berkley
Format: Print book

In the first Georgia Peach Mystery, when murder threatens her family's orchard, Nola Harper is ready to pick out the killer and preserve the farm's reputation ... To help run the family peach farm during her parents' absence, Nola Harper returns to her childhood home of Cays...
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Final Sentence (A Cookbook Nook Mystery)

Daryl Wood Gerber - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

FIRST IN THE COOKBOOK NOOK MYSTERY SERIES!. In need of a change, Jenna Hart leaves the high-pressure world of advertising to help her aunt, Vera, open a culinary bookshop and café. Back with her family in Crystal Cove, California, Jenna seems to have all the right ingredients for a fresh...
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Murder on the Rocks (Gray Whale Inn Mysteries, No. 1)

Karen MacInerney - MIDNIGHT INK
Format: Paperback

Trading in Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up buttery muffins and other rich breakfast treats for her guests until Bernard Katz checks in. The overbearing...
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Catering to Nobody

Diane Mott Davidson - Bantam
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Even though working a wake isn't Goldy Bear's idea of fun, the Colorado caterer throws herself into preparing a savory feast featuring Poached Salmon and Strawberry Shortcake Buffet designed to soothe forty mourners. Her culinary efforts seem to be exactly what the doctor ordered . . . until...
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Assaulted Caramel

AMANDA FLOWER - Kensington
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Sometimes you need a sweet tooth to take a bite out of crime . . .Bailey King is living the sweet life as assistant chocolatier at world-famous JP Chocolates in New York City. But just when Bailey's up for a life-changing promotion, her grandmother calls with news that her grandfather's...
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The Calamity Cafe

Gayle Leeson - New Amer Library
Format: Book

First in a new cozy mystery series featuring Southern cooking that is to die for.Aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers is ready to open her own caf offering old-fashioned Southern food. But her dream may go up in smoke when someone kills the competition...Tired of waiting...

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Cookie Dough or Die

Virginia Lowell - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House-a quaint shop that specializes in all things cookie-and her best friend, Maddie, is her sidekick, baking up scrumptious treats for their cookie-themed parties. But now they must take a break from baking and find a killer, or else...
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Sprinkle with Murder

Jenn McKinlay - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. But their first big client is a nightmare. She's a bridezilla who wants 500 custom cupcakes for her wedding. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake,...
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Gluten for Punishment

Nancy J. Parra - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Gluten-free baker Toni Holmes may not cook with wheat, but when there's a criminal on the loose, she'll do what it takes to figure out who has their finger in the pie ... Even though Toni is used to going against the grain by preparing allergy-safe, gluten-free products for her online...
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