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Do you prefer your books on the kinder, cozier, side? We have a great list of food-related mysteries with delicious plots just for you. Click a title to view it in our catalog, to place a hold for pickup, or to find ebooks or audiobooks to download.
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Nacho average murder
by Maddie Day
While attending a high school reunion back in California, Robbie Jordan catches wind of rumors that her mother may not have died of natural causes all those years ago, and, with the help of friends, must solve this mystery to return home alive.
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Death by tea
by Alex Erickson
Mystery lovers have descended on Pine Hills for this year's book club competition, to be held at Krissy Hancock's bookstore café, but the killer in their midst seems determined to outwit all the armchair sleuths—and send Krissy to the remainder bin forever.
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Out of the dying pan
by Linda S Reilly
When a neighboring boutique owner who harbors a grudge against her is found strangled to death with her scarf, fish fryer Talia Marby, to clear her name, must turn up the heat on a killer who had a good reason to want the victim dead. By author of Fillet of Murder.
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Assaulted caramel
by Amanda Flower
Returning home to Harvest, Ohio, to help her grandparents run their Amish candy shop, chocolatier Bailey King must clear her grandfather’s name in the murder of a local English developer and catch a killer with a sweet tooth who is trying to fudge the truth.
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Pumpkin spice peril
by Jenn McKinlay
When one of their most valued cupcake connoisseurs ends up dead, Fairy Talk Cupcake bakers—Melanie Cooper and Angie Harper—find their lives and bakery at stake when it is discovered that the victim was poisoned by their pumpkin spice cupcakes.
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Chocolate cream pie murder
by Joanne Fluke
The filming of a television special at brokenhearted Hannah Swensen's bakery is complicated by her shifty ex, an intrusive gang of bodyguards and an untimely murder that compels her alliance with an old flame.
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The diva steals a chocolate kiss
by Krista Davis
While in charge of the Amore Chocolates 50th anniversary celebration, Domestic Diva Sophie Winston finds the sweet event taking a sour turn when the company's CEO goes missing and a competing chocolatier is found murdered. Includes recipes and entertaining tips. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Diva Wraps It Up.
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Last licks
by Cynthia Baxter
Eagerly allowing a film director to shoot a major scene at her ice-cream shop, Kate is horrified when the production’s leading lady drops dead after eating a dish of chocolate almond fudge, enmeshing Lickety Splits in a complicated mystery.
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Criminal confections
by Colette London
While investigating the murder of the head chocolatier at the exclusive Lemaître resort spa, chocolate expert Hayden Mundy Moore realizes she may have been the intended target
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Lethal licorice
by Amanda Flower
To honor her grandfather’s memory, chocolatier Bailey King enters the annual Amish Confectionery Competition and instead finds herself accused of murdering a not-so-sweet candy maker from a neighboring town who wanted Englischer Bailey disqualified for being an outsider. By an Agatha Award-winning author.
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A brew to a kill
by Cleo Coyle
Clare Cosi, the manager of a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, must find the suspect in a hit-and-run killing when her delivery truck is implicated in the crime in this latest mystery in the best-selling series by the author of Murder by Mocha. 35,000 first printing
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Tea & treachery
by Vicki Delany
When real estate developer Jack Ford, who was trying to drive her and her grandmother, Rose, out of business, is found dead on Rose’s property, Lily, the owner of a traditional English tearoom, discovers that Ford was brewing trouble all over town as she tries to clear Rose’s name.
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Bedeviled eggs
by Laura Childs
While the ladies of the Cackleberry Club café prepare for Halloween by baking pumpkin bread and carving jack-o-lanterns, a killer terrorizes the townspeople of Kindred and it's up to widows Suzanne, Toni and Petra to beat him at his own game.
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Scones & bones
by Laura Childs
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning investigates the robbery of an antique ring at the Heritage Society's "Pirates and Plunder" party and the murder of a history intern in this new mystery from the author of The Teaberry Stranger. Includes recipes and tea-time tips.
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Body on Baker Street
by Vicki Delany
When the author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series comes to their bookshop for an author signing—and winds up dead—owners Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson must do their best to clear the name of one of their patrons and deduce the real killer. By a best-selling author.
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Crust no one
by Winnie Archer
While apprenticing under Olaya Solis, the master baker and owner of Yeast of Eden, Ivy Culpepper comes to the aid of her ex-boyfriend Miguel Baptista when his produce supplier goes missing, and gets some help from her octogenarian sidekick and the loose-lipped Blackbird Ladies who rise to the occasion.
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The walking bread
by Winnie Archer
When her brother is accused of snuffing out his competition during the art car parade, apprentice baker Ivy Culpepper must rise to the occasion and clear his name. Includes recipes.
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A deadly feast
by Lucy Burdette
Key West food critic, Hayley Snow, must help clear her friend Analise after a tourist collapsed and died during the seafood tasting tour she runs in the latest installment of the series, following Death on the Menu
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The crepes of wrath : a Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipes
by Tamar Myers
Magdalena Yoder comes to the aid of local police chief Melvin Stoltzfus as she takes on the investigation into the murder of Lizzie Mast, the worst cook in peaceful Hernia, Pennsylvania, while coping with an influx of new guests at the PennDutch Inn and a killer who will do anything to stop her from uncovering the truth.
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Strangled eggs and ham
by Maddie Day
When a protestor opposed to the building of a luxury resort at one of the most scenic hilltops in Brown County is murdered, country store owner Robbie Jordon must crack the case before her aunt, a fellow protestor, gets served the same fate.
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The chocolate moose motive : a chocoholic mystery
by JoAnna Carl
Lee's newest hire at the chocolate shop, Forsythia “Sissy” Smith, has the court of public opinion against her in her husband's murder, despite having a solid alibi in this next novel in the series following The Chocolate Castle Clue.
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Death by chocolate frosted doughnut
by Sarah Graves
Discovering the murdered body of a celebrity foodie in their new waterfront bakery, owners Jake and Ellie investigate the victim’s numerous enemies to clear Jake’s name of suspicion. By the author of the Home Repair is Homicide series.
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Pie hard
by Kirsten Weiss
When the bossy producer of a reality cooking show that has come to the struggling Pie Town is murdered, Val Harris and her flaky pie crust expert, Charlene, must follow the crumbs to solve the crime and keep the town from falling apart.
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Fillet of murder
by Linda S Reilly
When Phil Turnbull, a fellow shop owner who wants to stop a new store from opening up, is murdered, Talia Marby, who works at Lambert's Fish & Chips, must serve up the real killer after her dear friend and boss Bea Lambert becomes the prime suspect.
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Batter off dead
by Maymee Bell
Investing her last resources to cater a community charity event in the hopes of raising her bakery's profile, pastry chef Sophia Cummings scrambles to catch a killer when a wealthy benefactor is murdered at the heights of the festivities.
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Caught bread handed
by Ellie Alexander
While her estranged husband, Carlos, launches yet another plan to win her back, Jules must choose between her past and future as she tracks down the killer of Mindy Nolan, the owner of a new restaurant called Horizons. Includes recipes.
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Hot fudge murder
by Cynthia Baxter
A small-town ice cream shop owner becomes entangled in the murder of a world-famous fashion designer, setting out to find the murderer in order to protect her business.
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Bleeding tarts
by Kirsten Weiss
While hosting a pie-eating contest at the Bar X, a fake ghost town available for exclusive private events on the edge of Silicon Valley, Valentine Harris, trying to boost business for her struggling Pie Town shop, is faced with murder and must catch a killer before someone else gets sliced. Includes recipe.
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Death by dumpling
by Vivien Chien
When Thomas Feng, one of the property managers of the shopping plaza that houses Lana Lee's family restaurant, is found dead, the police immediately suspect Lana Lee and her relatives, and Lana, with her family’s restaurant at stake, must find the real killer before they are all in even more hot water. Original.
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Murder with macaroni and cheese
by A. L. Herbert
Catering her upcoming high-school reunion, soul food master Halia is embroiled in the suspicious death of a catty former classmate whose demise is complicated by extramarital affairs, mega-church scandals and sports secrets.
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