Posts Tagged ‘mystery’

The Cherry Cheesecake Murder

When Main Street in Lake Eden becomes a movie set, a clever killer rewrites the script and bakery owner Hannah Swenson must sift through a cast of suspects before the film wraps with an even deadlier ending.

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Devil’s Food Cake Murder

A new minister is in town. But when he is found face down in a plate of devil’s food cake with a bullet in his head, Hannah starts asking questions.

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Lemon Meringue Pie Murder

Hannah Swensen discovers one of her famous lemon meringue pies at the scene of a mysterious death. Now it’s up to Hannah to turn up the heat. Includes nine original cookie and dessert recipes.

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Murder for the Books

Librarian Amy Webber must archive overdue crimes and deadly rumors before a killer strikes again in her new Virginia home in Victoria Gilbert’s charming series debut. Fleeing a disastrous love affair, university librarian Amy Webber moves in with her aunt in a quiet, historic mountain town in Virginia. She quickly busies herself with managing a…

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Cream Puff Murder

When bakery owner Hannah Swensen stumbles upon a dead body floating in the new health club’s jacuzzi with a plate of her cream puffs–purchased by her boyfriend–decorating the crime scene, she tries to find the real killer.

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Sugar Cookie Murder

Martin Dubinski arrives at the buffet with his new Vegas showgirl wife–all wrapped up in glitter and fur. His ex-wife, however, seems as cool as chilled eggnog. And when an antique cake knife is discovered in the dcolletage of the new–and now late–Mrs. Dubinski, the festivities are put on ice.

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Cross and Burn

#1 bestselling author and queen of psychological suspense Val McDermid takes readers on an exhilarating, terrifying journey into the world of Tony Hill and Carol Jordan in her most accomplished thriller to date. Cross and Burn picks up where Val McDermid’s #1 bestseller The Retribution left off: following the best crime-fighting team in the U.K.-clinical…

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Death on the Nile

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: “I’d like to put…

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The Last of August PB

In the second brilliant, action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes trilogy, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are in a chase across Europe to untangle a web of shocking truths about the Holmes and Moriarty families. Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a winter break reprieve in Sussex after a fall semester that almost got them…

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The Painted Queen

Egypt, 1912—Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of Elizabeth Peters’ bestselling, beloved mystery series. Arriving in Cairo for another thrilling…

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