The Georgia Coast Cozy Mystery Series: Books 1, 2 & 3

The Georgia Coast Cozy Mystery Series: Books 1, 2 & 3
Author: Lois Lavrisa
Publisher: Sunlake Press
Total Pages: 537
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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This special collection contains the first three Georgia Coast Cozy Mysteries - Dying for Dinner Rolls, Murderous Muffins, and Homicide by Hamlet - in a single volume full of mystery, suspense, humor, and southern charm. DYING FOR DINNER ROLLS (Book 1): Catherine "Cat" Thompson has been held at gunpoint, stuck in a burning dumpster, chased out of a grocery store, caught impersonating a police officer and almost run over by a wayward vehicle. How's that for her first day as an amateur sleuth? With her friend Annie Mae, Cat investigates the brick-paved, oak-lined streets of Savannah to catch their friend's killer. But it's anything but smooth sailing for these self appointed detectives. Can they catch the killer before the killer gets them? Or will their first case also be their last? MURDEROUS MUFFINS (Book 2): Bezu is a beautiful southern belle with genteel manners. Her problems, however, are anything but. Deep in debt, Bezu's illegally taken in a few lodgers: A sweet stripper and her bodybuilder boyfriend, an Asian man loudly learning English through pop music, and a mysterious stranger with the most amazing blue-green eyes—and a secret. And when one of the boarders dies—with her muffins used as the murder weapon—Bezu must catch the killer before she ends up in jail…or worse. HOMICIDE BY HAMLET (Book 3): Annie Mae has one last job before she retires from a thirty-year career in academia: one week of summer theater camp. Easy peasy--she's worked at the camp for so many years she could do it with her eyes closed. Until a team leader is murdered, and all hell breaks loose. Now, everyone is a suspect--and everyone has a secret. And Annie Mae has to catch the killer before she becomes the next victim.

Murder by Page One

Murder by Page One
Author: Olivia Matthews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952210135
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If you love Hallmark mystery movies, you’ll love this cozy mystery with humor, intrigue, and a librarian amateur sleuth. Marvey, a librarian, has moved from Brooklyn to a quirky small town in Georgia. When she’s not at the library organizing events for readers, she’s handcrafting book-themed jewelry and looking after her cranky cat. At times, her new life in the South still feels strange...and that’s before the discovery of the dead body in the bookstore. After one of her friends becomes a suspect, Marvey sets out to solve the murder mystery. She even convinces Spence, the wealthy and charming newspaper owner, to help. With his ties to the community, her talents for research, and her fellow librarians’ knowledge, Marvey pursues the truth. But as she gets closer to it, could she be facing a deadly plot twist? This first in series cozy mystery includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Classic Peach Cobbler.

Key to Savannah

Key to Savannah
Author: Hope Callaghan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2016-07-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781535344326
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"Key to Savannah" is Book 1 in the Made in Savannah Cozy Mysteries Series BONUS: RECIPE INCLUDED! Months after the untimely death of mafia made man "Vinnie Garlucci," his devoted wife, Carlita, discovers a mysterious key in one of his pockets while sorting through his belongings. With help from her daughter, Mercedes, she sets off to find out what the mysterious key belongs to and soon discovers she has inherited property in historic Savannah, Georgia. Carlita views the property as a sign and remembers Vinnie's dying words to her to get their family out of the mafia. Against the wishes of her three sons, mother and daughter embark on a road trip to explore the property. While they're gone, someone breaks into their home and vandalizes it. This is the second time it has happened since Vinnie's death and Carlita is convinced that it's somehow tied to the mafia. Carlita and Mercedes are looking forward to leaving their old life behind with a fresh start in beautiful Savannah. They quickly realize you can run but you can't hide from the past.

A Beachfront Bakery Cozy Mystery Bundle (Books 1, 2, and 3)

A Beachfront Bakery Cozy Mystery Bundle (Books 1, 2, and 3)
Author: Fiona Grace
Publisher: Fiona Grace
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2021-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1094391336
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A bundle of books #1 (A KILLER CUPCAKE), #2 (A MURDEROUS MACARON), and #3 (A PERILOUS CAKE POP) in Fiona Grace’s Beachfront Bakery cozy mystery series. This bundle offers books one, two, and three in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading. In A KILLER CUPCAKE (Book #1), Allison Sweet, 34, a sous chef in Los Angeles, has had it up to here with demeaning customers, her demanding boss, and her failed love life. After a shocking incident, she realizes the time has come to start life fresh and follow her lifelong dream of moving to a small town and opening a bakery of her own. When Allison spots a charming, vacant storefront on the boardwalk near Venice, she wonders if she could really start life anew. Feeling like it’s a sign, and a time to take a chance in life, she goes for it. Yet Allison did not anticipate the wild ride ahead of her: the boardwalk, filled with fun and outrageous characters, is pulsing with life, from the Italian pizzeria owners on either side of her who vie for her affection, to the fortune tellers and scheming rival bakery owner nearby. Allison yearns to just focus on her delicious new pastry recipes and keep her struggling bakery afloat—but when a murder occurs right near her shop, everything changes. Implicated, her entire future at stake, Allison has no choice but to investigate to clear her name. As an orphaned dog wanders into her life, a devoted new sidekick with a knack for solving mysteries, she starts her search. Will they find the killer? And can her struggling bakery survive? In A MURDEROUS MACARON (Book #2), a rude tourist dies after eating his way up and down the boardwalk, and all eyes fall on Allison, as the police blame her new macarons. The macarons have a secret ingredient that is so delicious it has customers lining up and down the boardwalk—but they are not, she knows, the cause of death. Allison, forced to clear her name and salvage her customers, has no choice but to retrace the victim’s foodie trek up and down the boardwalk, and to figure out what he ate—or who he insulted—that could have gotten him killed. With her beloved dog at her side, it is a race against time to crack the mystery and solve the crime before she loses her bakery—and her budding romance—for good. In A PERILOUS CAKE POP (Book #3), after a popular food critic trashes Allison’s bakery, he ends up dead—and suspicion falls on her. With business failing, Allison’s only hope is to solve the crime and clear her name. But it’s not so simple: the dead critic infuriated a long line of people, and any of them could have gladly killed him. Will Allison—and her beloved dog—be able to solve the seemingly impossible case in time? A hilarious cozy mystery series, packed with twists, turns, romance, travel, food and unexpected adventure, the BEACHFRONT BAKERY series will keep you laughing and turning pages late into the night as you fall in love with an endearing new character who will capture your heart. Books #4-#6 are also available!

Peachy Scream

Peachy Scream
Author: Anna Gerard
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1643853279
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B&B proprietor Nina Fleet turns amateur thespian to bring the curtain down on a Shakespearean actor's killer in Anna Gerard's delightful second Georgia B&B mystery It's nothing short of inevitable that Cymbeline, GA, hosts an annual Shakespeare festival. But stage-struck Nina Fleet is about to learn that putting on an amateur theatrical production can be murder. Nina's anticipating showbiz glamour and glitz when a community Shakespearean troupe arrives for a two-week stay at her B&B. But the lights dim when she learns the company's director is her nemesis, struggling actor Harry Westcott—who still claims to be the rightful heir to Nina's elegant Queen Anne home. Meanwhile, the troupe members are not content to leave the drama upon the stage. Accusations of infidelity and financial malfeasance make a shambles of rehearsals. And then, two days into the troupe's stay, the lead actor is found dead in Nina's formal Shakespeare garden. Natural causes...or murder most foul? Nina uncovers evidence that something is indeed rotten in the town of Cymbeline. Too bad Harry is the only one who believes that she's not going completely off script. And exposing the truth isn't easy when the remaining troupe members say the show must go on...particularly when all of them seemingly had a motive for wanting their fellow actor to permanently exit stage right. Determined to keep the killer from making a curtain call, Nina and her trusty Australian Shepherd, Matilda, join forces with Harry to sleuth out the murder plot. Will they succeed before someone else shuffles off this mortal coil?

Sweet Murder

Sweet Murder
Author: Tegan Maher
Publisher: Witches of Keyhole Lake Southe
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781973160366
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What's a witch to do when the meanest man in the county drops dead in his coleslaw during her shift at the local barbecue joint? Noelle does what any good Southern girl would do: she flicks a wrist to clean up the mess, then thanks the stars for doing the world a favor. But that's just the beginning. She has the Magical Oversight Committee on her back because she can't keep her unruly little sister in line and the hunky new city-slicker sheriff would like to take her to dinner, except he suspects her of murder. To top it off, her possessed miniature donkey is being particularly calamitous and the old hens at the local beauty parlor are laying bets on her love life. A skydiving best friend and a bossy, living-impaired aunt become the least of her worries when the killer decides to bump up the plan by bumping her off. Can she figure it out in time to save all that she holds dear, or will Noelle be next on the list of folks who've turned up dead? If you like laugh-out-loud southern wit, magic, and murder, you'll fall in love with this witchy cozy mystery series!

Starboard Secrets

Starboard Secrets
Author: Hope Callaghan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2015-07-04
Genre: Cruise ships
ISBN: 9781514833865
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Starboard Secrets Is Book 1 In The Cruise Ship Christian Cozy Mysteries SeriesBONUS: Recipe Included!Millie Sanders' happily ever after is suddenly destroyed when her husband of 35 years comes home one day and informs her that he is leaving her for another woman. To make matters worse, the other woman happens to be her "friend" and hairdresser, Delilah Osborne!After months of mourning and moping around the house, she stumbles upon a help wanted ad in the newspaper for the perfect job as an assistant cruise ship director. Before Millie can talk herself out of it, she fills out the application and mails it in. Much to her surprise, not only does the company contact her, they hire her!Determined to start a new life and new career, Millie boards the ship, ready for a new adventure. She isn't on board the massive floating city - her new home - more than ten minutes when a dead body is discovered near the atrium bar. Her curiosity gets the best of her and before she knows it, Millie finds herself right in the thick of the investigation. With a little help from a new friend and shipmate, the amateur sleuth discovers that the deceased had more enemies than friends making this murder an even tougher case to crack.Will Millie delve too deeply and risk losing her job - and possibly her life?

Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody

Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody
Author: Barbara Ross
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496719956
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Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and she’s already traveled and planted a garden. She’s organized her photos, her recipes, and her spices. The statistics suggest she has at least a few more decades ahead of her, so she better find something to do . . . JANE DARROWFIELD, PROFESSIONAL BUSYBODY After Jane helps a friend with a sticky personal problem, word starts to spread around her bridge club—and then around all of West Cambridge, Massachusetts—that she’s the go-to girl for situations that need discreet fixing. Soon she has her first paid assignment—the director of a 55-and-over condo community needs her to de-escalate hostilities among the residents. As Jane discovers after moving in for her undercover assignment, the mature set can be as immature as any high schoolers, and war is breaking out between cliques. It seems she might make some progress—until one of the aging “popular kids” is bludgeoned to death with a golf club. And though the automatic sprinklers have washed away much of the evidence, Jane’s on course to find out whodunit . . .

In For A Penny

In For A Penny
Author: Kelsey Browning
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781944898465
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When Lillian Summer Fairview's husband up and dies on her, it leaves the last living member of the most prestigious family in Summer Shoals, Georgia, in a hot money mess. Desperate to keep up the family name and give the man a decent burial, penniless Lil makes a shady deal that lands her smack-dab in the slammer. Burdened by her shameful secret and a crumbling family estate, Lil entrusts Summer Haven's care to her best friend, Maggie, who recruits two more over-fifty ladies to help. But when Maggie discovers that Lil's restitution is ten times the amount she "borrowed" from the federal government, she's convinced Lil has taken the fall for someone else's crime. Will these gals be able to prove Lil was duped, or will the swindler get away with hoodwinking a sweet little old lady?

Welcome to Piney Falls

Welcome to Piney Falls
Author: Joann Keder
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-03-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781953270993
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Lanie goes to Piney Falls to research a century-old story. What she finds are two mysteries, one in the present day as well as the mysterious death of the town founders.