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by Ellery Adams
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 flakey crust.
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by Sally Andrew
Tannie Maria writes the advice column for the Klein Karoo Gazette: words of wisdom for the lovelorn, along with a recipe for something helpful and delicious. Her relationship with the rugged detective Henk Kannemeyer is still haunted by the memory of her abusive late husband, so she decides to check out a counseling group run by a man they call the Satanic Mechanic..
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by Martine Bailey
Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at forbidding Mawton Hall, only wants to marry her childhood sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries young Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly swept up in a world of scheming, secrets, and lies.
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by Leslie Budewitz
After leaving a dicey marriage and losing a beloved job in a corporate crash, Pepper Reece has found a new zest for life running a busy spice and tea shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market. . But a panhandler named Doc shows up dead on the store's doorstep, a Seattle Spice Shop cup in his hand.
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by Laura Childs
Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lost their husbands but found independence - and, in each other, a life raft of support, inspiration, fresh baked goods, and their own business.But when the Cackleberry Club cafe opened its doors in the town of Kindred, who'd have guessed that the cozy oasis would become the scene of a crime?
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by Mary Jane Behrends Clark
Piper Donovan is newly single and struggling to find acting jobs after her soap opera character was killed off. She moves back in with her parents and helps out in her mom's bakery, which is renowned for its beautifully decorated cakes.
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by Cleo Coyle
Receiving a vision that leads to the discovery of a murdered model during a fairy-tale-themed festival in Central Park, Claire is targeted by an elusive killer who may be among several possible suspects, including her NYPD boyfriend. Includes recipes
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by Diane Mott Davidson
Fleeing an abusive ex, caterer Goldy Bear moves herself, her son, and her business to the Aspen Meadow Country Club area, where she becomes enmeshed in a murder mystery involving a handsome local shrink.
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by Krista Davis
Sophie Winston's sister, Hannah, is getting married--again! And if you ask Sophie, her future brother-in-law is no prince. But is he a killer? That's the question on everyone's mind when his ex-wife is found hanging from a pergola. This is one event Sophie and her sister hadn't planned on.
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by A. L. Herbert
Mahalia's Sweet Tea boasts the most flavorful soul food in all of Prince George's county, Maryland. But as events at the beauty industry's leading trade show turn ugly, owner Halia Watkins needs to bite into an unsavory new item on the menu--murder!
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by Stephen P Kiernan
While Europe awaits liberation from Hitler's troops, one small Normandy village is held together by the resourcefulness of a 22-year-old woman with a talent for baguettes.
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by Nina Killham
Pleasantly plump cookbook author Jasmine March's perfect life concocting high-calorie, flavorful recipes is turned upside down when her husband takes up with one of his Zone-dieting drama students, her daughter becomes anorexic, her publisher threatens to cancel her contract, and she stumbles upon a corpse on her kitchen floor.
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by Nan Lyons
Just after Switzerland's Enstein Clinic releases formerly obese murderer Achille van Golk, culinary sleuths Natasha O'Brien and Millie Ogden once again set out on the trail of a serial chef killer--this time stalking American cooking experts.
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by Leslie Meier
Norah Hemming, the hostess of a daytime TV show in Tinkers Cove, Maine, rewards Lucy and three of her friends for their charitable fund-raising efforts with a free trip to Paris, complete with lessons at Le Cooking School from famous pastry chef Larry Bruneau.
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by Rosella Postorino
Forced to risk her life every day as a taster at Hitler's secret headquarters, Rosa and a growing sisterhood of involuntary women conscripts navigate Nazi fanatics, an SS guard's unwanted attention and the escalating war.
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by Celia Rees
Recruited as a spy for the OSS for her educational background and brother’s Oxford connections to help find a war criminal in occupied post-World War II Germany, a young British schoolteacher finds herself surrounded by civilians hiding dubious agendas. .
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by Ann B. Ross
When domestically challenged Hazel Marie is forced to take over the care of her household in the wake of a housekeeper's injury, Miss Julia rallies the ladies of Abbotsville to provide cooking lessons only to confront Hazel Marie's reprobate uncle, who harbors a suspicious agenda.
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by J. B. Stanley Soon after Paulette Martine sashays into tiny Quincy's Gap, Va., to bake the wedding cake for her sister Milla, the Diva of Dough has offended everyone with her highfalutin ways. That's par for the course, according to her harassed assistant Willow. When Paulette is found beneath gobs of cake batter, nobody cares.
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by Aaron Thier
A tale told through tourist pamphlets, course catalogs, blog posts, historical letters and slave narratives recounts the extent of a humble New England college's financial troubles and uneasy relationship with a snack-food corporation that uses the students as test subjects.
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by Michael Lee West
Teeny Templeton is looking forward to her marriage to Bing Jackson, until she catches him playing nude badminton with a pair of lovely ladies. Teeny's throwing unripe peaches at the three results in an assault charge, probation, and a restraining order --problems that pale after Teeny finds Bing dead a few days later and she becomes the prime murder suspect.
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