Download or read book Maple Glaze and Murder written by K. E. O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful castle wedding ends in tragedy when a killer strikes. And when a member of the household is accused of the murder, Audley Castle will never be the same again... I'm so thrilled to be a part of my amazing gran's wedding. The venue (Audley Castle) is perfect, the sun is shining, and the guests are behaving themselves. What could go wrong? Well... life is never simple, and when Gran's friends turn out to be crooks who have their eyes on the expensive castle antiques, I know I'll have problems. But I never expected a wedding guest to be killed! If that's not bad enough, my best friend, Princess Alice Audley, is discovered next to the victim with the murder weapon in her hand and no memory of what happened. I have to prove her innocence. But add in the complication of my gran also being a murder suspect, a visit from my terrifying potential in-laws, and a new head of police making things difficult, and this is my trickiest mystery yet. However, like the fluffiest, lightest sponge cake, I will rise and beat this crisis. *** Enjoy a visit to Audley Castle with the familiar faces you've come to love, and help solve puzzles and question suspects in this fun, cozy culinary mystery. If you enjoyed this book, there are seven more waiting for you to binge-read. Suggested reading order: Cream Caramel and Murder Chocolate Swirls and Murder Vanilla Whip and Murder Cherry Cream and Murder Blueberry Blast and Murder Mocha Cream and Murder Lemon Drizzle and Murder Maple Glaze and Murder

Download or read book Murder at the Maple Festival written by Paul A. Newman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy strikes the Geauga County Maple Festival when a local judge is found murdered. Although the event is crowded with townsfolk, one man says the wrong thing and ends up the countys most wanted. He is president of the maple festival, Fred Newman, and he suddenly finds himself under arrest by the Chief of Police. Fred is an attorney in the small town of Chardon, and although he may be a prime suspect, hes thankfully not alone. Several of the townspeople are called before the court, and Fred takes it upon himself to represent his fellow citizens. However, he soon seems even more suspicious when he represents another attorney, which only causes additional small town trouble. Despite the cloud that has settled over Geauga County, Fred continues his duties as President of the maple festival. He takes his responsibilities seriously, but how can he run a successful event when half the attendees think he might be a murderer? Itll take further investigation and the help of a local police officer to clear Freds name and save the famous celebration.

Download or read book A Murderous Glaze written by Melissa Glazer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series takes shape-the debut of the Clay and Crime mysteries. Includes directions for a pottery project In Maple Ridge, Vermont, Carolyn Emerson planned to ease into her golden years running her paint-your-own-pottery shop, Fire at Will. She never expected to uncover a dead body in the shop, and she certainly didn't plan on a drop in live clientele. Now it's up to Carolyn and her shop's pottery club, The Firing Squad, to help clear her name. But can she find a killer and more customers without her own brush with death?

Download or read book Glazed Murder written by Jessica Beck and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Suzanne Hart, owner and operator of Donut Hearts coffee shop in April Springs, North Carolina. After her divorce from Max, an out-of-work actor she's dubbed "The Great Impersonator," Suzanne decided to pursue her one true passion in life: donuts. So she cashed in her settlement and opened up shop in the heart of her beloved hometown. But when a dead body is dumped on her doorstep like a sack of flour, Suzanne's cozy little shop becomes an all-out crime scene. Now, everyone in town is dropping by for glazed donuts and gruesome details. The retired sheriff warns her to be careful—and they're all suspects. Soon Suzanne—who finds snooping as irresistible as donuts—is poking holes in everyone's alibis...

Download or read book A Murderous Glaze written by Melissa Glazer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Maple Ridge, Vermont, Carolyn Emerson plans to ease into her golden years running her paint-your-own-pottery shop, Fire at Will. But when a pesky dead body shows up in the shop, her name may be mud. Carolyn never liked Betty Wickline, but that didn’t mean she wanted her dead. Yet that’s exactly how Betty is found one night in Fire at Will—craftily murdered with Carolyn’s very own awl. Suddenly everyone in town paints Carolyn as the suspect, and her business is drying up. For help, Carolyn turns to her shop club, the Firing Squad, a group of loyal customers and amateur potters. As their investigation takes shape, Carolyn has a brush with death. Now, she and the Squad must piece the shards of evidence together, before Carolyn’s life is shattered. Includes directions for a clay wind ornament project!

Download or read book Murder with Ganache written by Lucy Burdette and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hayley Snow, the food critic for Key Zest magazine, has her plate heaped high with restaurant reviews, doughnut and sticky bun tastings, and an article on the Hemingway cats. But this week she’s also in charge of her best friend’s wedding. And then someone adds a side of murder… For better or worse, Hayley has agreed to bake over 200 cupcakes for her friend Connie’s wedding while still meeting her writing deadlines. The last thing she needs is family drama. But her parents come barreling down on the island like a category 3 hurricane and on their first night in town her stepbrother, Roby, disappears into the spring break party scene in Key West. When Hayley hears that two teenagers have stolen a jet ski, she sets aside her oven mitts and goes in search of Rory. She finds him, barely conscious, but his female companion isn’t so lucky. Now Hayley has to let the cupcakes cool and assemble the sprinkles of clues to clear her stepbrother’s name—before someone else gets iced.

Download or read book Murder Gone A Rye written by Nancy J. Parra and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Holmes is the best gluten-free baker in Oiltop, Kansas—okay, she’s the only one—but when her grandmother becomes a murder suspect, she’s more concerned with keeping Grandma free… When Toni’s beloved—and eccentric—grandma Ruth is arrested for the murder of her archenemy, Lois Striker, it’s time for a senior moment of truth. Telltale tracks from a scooter like the one Grandma Ruth rides lead the police to suspect the outspoken oldster, but Toni knows her grandmother wouldn’t burn a cookie, let alone extinguish a life. In fact, the case has Grandma more revved up than her infamous scooter. A former investigative journalist, she decides to solve the murder herself—with help from Toni—by digging up long-buried town secrets. But as Grandma scoots in where others fear to tread, Toni needs to make sure she not only stays out of jail but out of harm’s way… INCLUDES GLUTEN FREE RECIPES

Download or read book The Winterstone Murder written by Paul Austin Ardoin and published by Pax Ardsen. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was originally published under the title Ceremony in August 2021. Dr. Kep Woodhead is a brilliant, irascible forensic toxicologist with a dark past. Bernadette Becker is a disgraced federal investigator with one last chance. They're both assigned to a strange poisoning case: a graduate student has been found dead in a 15th-century chapel, a needle filled with a controversial hallucinogen sticking out of his arm. The priest, the professor, the piscary president, the protégé, the protestor— all emerge with a motive to stop the victim's research. Can Becker and Woodhead find the truth before more fall victim to the killer?

Download or read book Murder in the Maple Woods written by Claire Ackroyd and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy dies in the Maine woods. His death is judged an accident, but suspicions are raised. Set in the remote maple sugar camps of northwestern Maine, the story unfolds around the maple sugar industry and its producers.

Download or read book Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant written by Darci Hannah and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Halloween weekend and Beacon Harbor, Michigan, has a packed schedule of events, including the Pumpkin Pageant, featuring humans and their canine counterparts. For treats, there's plenty of pumpkin goodness from bakery/café owner and local lighthouse resident Lindsey Bakewell. But someone wants to spoil the fun with a deadly trick . . . Lindsey prefers to keep her bakeshop's Halloween decor light and autumnal, rather than gruesome and ghoulish. But everyone knows her lighthouse home is haunted. Some intrepid teens have even tried to break in to witness the resident ghost themselves. Dreading Halloween night, Lindsey reluctantly allows her influencer and podcaster best friend, Kennedy, to host a live ghost-hunting investigation in the lighthouse, conducted by a professional team. Protective of her ghost, Lyndsey is understandably nervous about what they might uncover . . . The segment is uneventful--until things take a terrifying turn. The team freaks out. As Kennedy joins the mad dash outside, she bumps into what looks like the prankster teens' creepy clown costume hanging from a tree. But when Lindsey's dog, Wellington, begins to whine, they make a grim discovery: the clown is no dummy. It's a corpse. Now Lindsey and company will need to keep their cool if they want a ghost of a chance to solve the murder--and see another Halloween . . .

Download or read book The Marmalade Murders written by Elizabeth J. Duncan and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A black Labrador retreiver discovers the body of a missing woman at an agricultrual fair. A newcomer to town, a transgender woman, is suspected but amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan believes her to be innocent. Penny sets out to find the real killer, but when a second body is discovered, the case is thrown into confusion and it's up to Penny to figure out what happenend and why.

Download or read book Custom Baked Murder written by Liz Mugavero and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristan “Stan” Connor gladly turned tail on her high-flying job and moved to a quaint New England town to sell organic pet treats. But with her nose for solving murders, there’s no such thing as a quiet life... Summer is winding down in Frog Ledge, Connecticut, but Stan’s love life and career are both heating up nicely. In between planning her new pet patisserie and café, Stan is settling into living-in-bliss with sexy pub owner Jake McGee. Love’s on the menu for Stan’s mom, Patricia, too, who’s engaged to Frog Ledge’s mayor, Tony Falco. Mayor Falco’s dogged ambition isn’t popular among locals, but it’s his executive coach, Eleanor Chang, who’s inspired a dangerous grudge. When Eleanor is found dead, there’s a whole pack of suspects to choose from. Stan has first-hand experience of Eleanor’s unsavory business tactics. But finding out who forced her to take a fatal plunge off the corporate ladder means unearthing some shady secrets...and a killer who’s too close for comfort. Includes Gourmet Pet Food Recipes! Praise for Kneading to Die “In this fine first novel, the characters ring true and the plot and narration are seamless.” —Mystery Scene

Download or read book The Consequence of Murder written by Nene Adams and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gruesome discovery of a mummified corpse wakes up something inside investigator Mackenzie Cross. Seeing and hearing things that just don’t happen in Antioch, Georgia, she finally accepts that the very angry ghost of the dead woman is demanding Mackenzie find out who murdered her. Under ordinary circumstances, she would turn to her best friend, sheriff’s deputy Veronica Birdwell, but not only is Mackenzie unsure how to bring up a very real ghost, she is uncomfortably attracted to Veronica, who is straight and off-limits. She also has another case involving a cheerleader, a blackmailing preacher and a rattlesnake—life is already too complicated to risk love. Talented storyteller Nene Adams introduces the world of Mackenzie Cross!

Download or read book Murder on Main Street written by Hunter Laroche and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendy Dow and Nancy Eblen, two very financially comfortable business women, head off their annual summer vacation which they have scheduled together for years. They find themselves on the Island of Nantucket in early May. After a wonderful lunch in the garden of The Chanticleer Inn, they start discussing how nice it would be just to give it all up and spend the entire summer on the island. Well, this adventure moves forward, and they find themselves the owners of a five acre parcel of land in Polpis. The property has two run down barns and a home that has been neglected for quite a number of years. When they start their restoration projects, they uncover a long old slender metal box that is locked. Now, the contents of this mysterious box could it possibly hold the clue to a murder? Ahh, the plot thickens...

Download or read book Murder at the Blarney Bash written by Darci Hannah and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the aroma of shamrock sugar cookies to the Beacon Bakeshop, a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan where amateur sleuth Lindsey Bakewell is busy preparing for Beacon Harbor's St. Patrick's Day festivities - with a little help from her adorable Newfoundland, Wellington, of course! Lindsey is baking up a storm--shamrock sugar cookies, Guinness chocolate cupcakes, Irish soda bread--for the well-timed grand opening of the Irish import gift shop, the Blarney Stone, owned by her boyfriend's uncle, Finnigan O'Connor, recently relocated from the Emerald Isle. But it's Uncle Finn himself who seems full of blarney when he gleefully reveals a pot of real gold he claims he stole from an actual leprechaun. And Finn's fortune takes a turn for the worse when he's arrested for the bludgeoning of a small unidentified man dressed as a leprechaun--the murder weapon alleged to be his now-missing shillelagh. Eccentric Uncle Finn may enjoy believing he's outwitted a leprechaun, but he would never be so deluded as to clobber one with his walking stick. Now Lindsey will need more than the luck of the Irish to seize a golden opportunity to catch the real killer . . .

Download or read book Marilyn Manson Murders written by Thomas Chi and published by Thomas Chi. This book was released on 2004-10-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The film script, Marilyn Manson Murders is based on the novel by the same name. Writer Thomas Chi admits the novel began as a history about the evolution of rock music from New Orleans, Louisiana to Los Angeles, California, "As a rock historian, I travel the planet asking questions about the evolution of rock, MTV and Rolling Stone Magazine. I have cruised from the coast of Florida to the beaches of California seven times by car - Always stopping in New Orleans. Marilyn Manson has been been the focus if my investigation on rock's transition since 1999. From the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas 2007 to record stores in Turkey's capital of Ankara, I am covering the story. Over 6,000 video interviews have been recorded in various languages."

Download or read book Mischief Nights Are Murder written by Libby Klein and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy McAllister discovers that gluten-free Halloweens can scare up another case of murder in latest installment of this delightful culinary B&B mystery series! Poppy is none too pleased when her B&B is coerced into participating in the Cape May Haunted Dinners Tour during Halloween season. Though her knack for finding dead bodies has given the place a spooky reputation, the Murder House is a completely undeserved nickname. At least it used to be . . . While Poppy wrangles with some guests who can’t stop squabbling with each other—including a paranormal researcher, a very quirky pet psychic who freaks out her portly Persian, and an undercover tabloid reporter eager to catch her staff in a lie—one of them winds up facedown in a plate of tiramisu. And now she has bigger worries than getting her house TP’d . . . Includes Recipes from Poppy’s Kitchen! “A cast of wacky characters, plenty of humor, and the antiques and B&B frame provide the appeal.” —Booklist on Antique Auctions are Murder