Download or read book Murder at the Ice Cream Parlor written by Carol Guy and published by Mundania Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a quiet spring morning in May, Helen Lawson and her long-time friend Flo Patterson are peacefully strolling along Oak Street in the heart of downtown Bridgeville. Little do they know that as they are discussing hair appointments and spring flowers, Harley Baker, owner of the local ice cream parlor, is being brutally murdered less than a block away. Once Helen and Flo part company, Helen goes into the ill-fated shop and makes the gruesome discovery. What follows is a full-scale police investigation that involves Helen in a controversy, pits her against her police-officer son-in-law, and puts her at odds with the town mayor. In the meantime, a local "bad boy" is arrested for the crime and Helen races against time to clear the young man and bring the real killer to justice.
Download or read book Mint Chocolate Murder written by Meri Allen and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mint Chocolate Murder is a delightful confection of wonderful characters, a yummy setting, and an intriguing, twisty, and multi-layered mystery. It's the perfect book to curl up with on a lazy summer afternoon—preferably with your favorite flavor of ice cream close to hand." --Elizabeth Penney, Edgar-nominated author of the Cambridge Bookshop Series Riley Rhodes returns in the second delicious cozy set in a New England ice cream shop, Meri Allen's Mint Chocolate Murder! When Udderly Delightful Ice Cream shop manager Riley Rhodes is summoned to Penniman’s Moy Mull Castle, it’s the cherry on top of a successful summer season. The gothic pile built by an eccentric New England Gilded Age millionaire has been transformed into a premiere arts colony by Maud Monaco, a reclusive former supermodel. As part of Moy Mull’s Fall Arts Festival, Maud is throwing a fantasy ice cream social and hires Riley to whip up unique treats to celebrate the opening of an exhibit by Adam Blasco, a photographer as obnoxious as he is talented. As Penniman fills up with Maud’s art-world friends arriving for the festival, gossip swirls around Blasco, who has a dark history of obsession with his models. Riley’s curiosity and instincts for sleuthing – she was a CIA librarian – are piqued, and she wonders at the hold the cold-hearted photographer has over the mistress of Moy Mull. But when Adam is found dead behind the locked door of Moy Mull’s dungeon, Riley realizes there’s more than one suspect who’d wanted to put the malicious photographer on ice.
Download or read book A Deadly Inside Scoop written by Abby Collette and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop—with a fabulous cast of quirky characters. Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to basics. Win is renovating Crewse Creamery to restore its former glory, and filling the menu with delicious, homemade ice cream flavors—many from her grandmother’s original recipes. But unexpected construction delays mean she misses the summer season, and the shop has a literal cold opening: the day she opens her doors an early first snow descends on the village and keeps the customers away. To make matters worse, that evening, Win finds a body in the snow, and it turns out the dead man was a grifter with an old feud with the Crewse family. Soon, Win’s father is implicated in his death. It's not easy to juggle a new-to-her business while solving a crime, but Win is determined to do it. With the help of her quirky best friends and her tight-knit family, she'll catch the ice cold killer before she has a meltdown...
Download or read book The Ice Cream War written by Dr Paul Anthony Janson and published by Jm Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mystery of rival ice cream shops in a small town in middle America. Jerry, a California surfer, returns to his home town and opens an ice cream shop where he is giving away his ice cream. This threatens Mary owner of the only other ice cream shop in town with disaster until there is a murder in Jerry's shop. Mary find herself reluctantly trying to prove that Jerry didn't kill anyone, although she thought of killing him to save her shop, and Jerry ends up working beside her in her ice cream shop. The plot continues to become more and more complicated as Jerry's friends from California show up carrying drugs and threats. Between the "war" and the murder things are getting as sticky as fudge in a hot July day with four year old murders adding to the mystery. Soon it looks like Jerry and Mary will be the next victims if they are not arrested by the DEA first.
Download or read book The Ice Cream War a Mystery of Hot Fudge and Murder written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary has her own troubles, a law degree that she is afraid to use, a father who thinks that at thirty five she ought to be married and then an old high school classmate, Jerry, returns from California to visit his crazy aunt and opens an ice cream shop. The problem is, Mary has an ice cream shop in the same little town and the ice cream war begins, at least for Mary. Jerry doesn't seem to understand since he is giving away his ice cream. Things cannot go on like this for long and they don't. A body is found in Jerry's shop the evening of his first day open. The victim turns out to be an old girlfriend of jerry's from California and she was shot to death at close range. Jerry seems to know a lot about street life and "wasting people" and oh yes, a lot about the drugs, bath salts that are found on the murdered lady. Even so Mary cannot believe Jerry could have murdered anyone and she reluctantly decides to try to prove someone else did the shooting.There is no lack of other candidates for her to choose from: Jerry's aunt May is crazy after her husband George ran off with al the money he could get a hold of, ran off with his secretary Jessica. They made it to Florida but haven't been heard of in four years since. George did own a gun that could have killed Jerry's friend. May's brothers are making sure what money is left is not being spent by May so they can inherit it. They see Jerry as a threat and try to convince him to leave their town, try to convince him with tire irons and baseball bats. There are some other locals that are convinced May has money her husband didn't take with him. If this were not enough one of Jerry's friends from California shows up and turns out to have been following Jerry. Dhe arrived the day before the murder.But Mary and Jerry have other things to worry about, like the vast that the DEA is convinced Jerry was supplying bath salts and that he killed his girlfriend. The DEA would like to arrest him and the murderer would like to kill him and Mary is try to run an ice cream shop hoping that Jerry isn't arrested or killed but mostly that he doesn't give away all her ice cream since he is working in her shop until his can be reopened. It is hot July though and things will work out if everyone will just relax and eat a little ice cream. They do.
Download or read book A Deadly Inside Scoop written by Abby Collette and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop—with a fabulous cast of quirky characters. Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to basics. Win is renovating Crewse Creamery to restore its former glory, and filling the menu with delicious, homemade ice cream flavors—many from her grandmother’s original recipes. But unexpected construction delays mean she misses the summer season, and the shop has a literal cold opening: the day she opens her doors an early first snow descends on the village and keeps the customers away. To make matters worse, that evening, Win finds a body in the snow, and it turns out the dead man was a grifter with an old feud with the Crewse family. Soon, Win’s father is implicated in his death. It's not easy to juggle a new-to-her business while solving a crime, but Win is determined to do it. With the help of her quirky best friends and her tight-knit family, she'll catch the ice cold killer before she has a meltdown...
Download or read book A Killer Sundae written by Abby Collette and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ice cream shop owner Bronwyn Crewse is in for two scoops of murder in this charming mystery from Abby Collette. Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is gorgeous in the fall, and Bronwyn Crewse, owner of Crewse Creamery, knows just how to welcome the new season. At the annual Harvest Time Festival, residents will get a chance to enjoy hot-air balloons and hayrides, crown a new Harvest Time Festival Queen, and eat delicious frozen treats sold at Win’s freshly purchased ice cream truck. But she gets into a sprinkle of trouble when a festivalgoer is poisoned and Win is implicated. Although the victim was a former Harvest Time Festival Queen, her once-sunny disposition had dimmed into bitterness, leaving no shortage of suspects at the festival. To clear her name before the chill of winter sets in, Win will have to investigate and hope that her detective skills won’t “dessert” her.
Download or read book A Game of Cones written by Abby Collette and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming mystery series set in an ice cream shop, no case is too cold to crack! Bronwyn Crewse is delighted that Crewse Creamery, the ice cream shop her family has owned for decades, is restored to its former glory and serving sweet frozen treats to happy customers in the picturesque small town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. But when a big city developer comes to town intent on building a mall, a killer with a frozen heart takes him out. After literally stumbling across the body, one of Win’s closest friends becomes the prime suspect, and to make things worse, Win’s aunt has come to town with the intention of taking command of Crewse Creamery. Even though Win has a rocky road ahead to help her friend and keep her ice cream shop, it'll take more than a sprinkle of murder to stop her from solving the crime and saving the day.
Download or read book The Rocky Road to Ruin written by Meri Allen and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice will be swirled by amateur sleuth Riley Rhodes in the first in Meri Allen's brand-new mystery series, The Rocky Road to Ruin! Riley Rhodes, travel food blogger and librarian at the CIA, makes a bittersweet return to her childhood home of Penniman, Connecticut – land of dairy farms and covered bridges - for a funeral. Despite the circumstances, Riley’s trip home is sprinkled with reunions with old friends, visits to her father’s cozy bookshop on the town green, and joyful hours behind the counter at the beloved Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop. It feels like a time to help her friend Caroline rebuild after her mother’s death, and for Riley to do a bit of her own reflecting after a botched undercover mission in Italy. After all, it’s always good to be home. But Caroline and her brother Mike have to decide what to do with the assets they’ve inherited – the ice cream shop as well as the farm they grew up on – and they’ve never seen eye to eye. Trouble begins to swirl as Riley is spooked by reports of a stranger camping behind the farm and by the odd behavior of the shop’s mascot, Caroline’s snooty Persian, Sprinkles. When Mike turns up dead in the barn the morning after the funeral, the peace and quiet of Penniman seems upended for good. Can Riley find the killer before another body gets scooped?
Download or read book They Killed the Ice Cream Man written by George Larmour and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of George Larmour's search for the truth behind the murder of his brother John, who was shot by the IRA while looking after the family-run ice cream parlour on the night of October 11th 1988.
Download or read book Hot Fudge Murder written by Cynthia Baxter and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hudson Valley ice cream maker trades scooping for snooping when a famous fashion designer is murdered in her town in this “sweet treat for cozy lovers” (Publishers Weekly). Kate McKay has been living the sweet life ever since she opened Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe in Upstate New York. Now she’s taking business to the next level, whipping up sundaes for a swanky soiree hosted by fashion designer Omar DeVane. Kate is immediately intimidated by the mogul’s mansion and his handler’s frosty attitudes. But the party takes an even more chilling turn when Omar is murdered. With journalists flocking to her sleepy village and the scandal keeping customers away from her shop, Kate knows her life won’t return to normal until Omar’s killer is brought to justice. But as she navigates the fashion world to search for clues, she might just wind up with a double helping of trouble. Includes mouthwatering ice cream recipes from the Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe!
Download or read book A Cold Brew Killing written by Lena Gregory and published by Lyrical Underground. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an ice cream vendor discovers a frozen stiff, Florida diner owner Gia Morelli has to serve up some just desserts . . . Gia has become good friends with Trevor, a fun, flirtatious bachelor who owns the ice cream parlor down the street from her popular All-Day Breakfast Café. Trevor has the scoop on all sorts of local attractions and activities. But when he bursts into her diner, trembling and paler than a pint of French Vanilla, she can tell something's very wrong. Trevor points her toward his shop then passes out cold. When Gia runs down to his shop, she discovers a chilling sight—a dead body in the open freezer. But the ice cream man's troubles are just beginning. The police suspect him of this murder a la mode, especially when details of his questionable past surface. Gia believes in her friend and is determined to clear his name and find the real cold-blooded killer before someone else gets put on ice . . .
Download or read book Death of an Ice Cream Scooper written by Lee Hollis and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apparently, the mouthwatering new ice cream flavors on the menu in coastal Bar Harbor, Maine, are really just to die for . . . Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell doesn’t know what to believe when Lydia Partridge, the put-together owner of gourmet Bar Harbor Ice Cream, suddenly reveals fears that her husband may be having an affair. There’s no other way to explain why Jamie, a respected professor, was spotted in a remote part of town with a much younger woman. But instead of learning the truth about the secret meeting, Lydia opens her freezer truck to find another surprise—the dead body of a summer employee . . . The shock continues as photographic evidence proves Jamie was spending time off campus with the victim, one of his students. Now, Lydia desperately needs Hayley to discover if Jamie really is a cheater—and, worse, a ruthless killer. With her own complicated family issues to address, can Hayley make sense of a popular college girl’s love life and out the true culprit before the case, or another person, goes cold? Includes delectable recipes from Hayley’s kitchen! “An enjoyably twisty mystery laced with the heroine's equally entertaining foodcentric newspaper columns.” —KirkusReviews on Death of an Italian Chef
Download or read book Death of an Ice Cream Scooper written by Lee Hollis and published by Hayley Powell Mystery. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is back on the case in Bar Harbor, Maine when her friend and owner of a gourmet ice cream shop finds that her husband may be a cheater and a killer... Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell doesn't know what to believe when Lydia Partridge, the put-together owner of gourmet Bar Harbor Ice Cream, suddenly reveals fears that her husband may be having an affair. There's no other way to explain why Jamie, a respected professor, was spotted in a remote part of town with a much younger woman. But instead of learning the truth about the secret meeting, Lydia opens her freezer truck to find another surprise--the dead body of a summer employee... The shock continues as photographic evidence proves Jamie was spending time off campus with the victim, one of his students. Now, Lydia desperately needs Hayley to discover if Jamie really is a cheater--and, worse, a ruthless killer. With her own complicated family issues to address, can Hayley make sense of a popular college girl's love life and out the true culprit before the case, or another person, goes cold?
Download or read book Fatal Fudge Swirl written by Meri Allen and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A movie production brings drama—and murder—to a close-knit New England village, forcing Riley Rhodes to scoop out the suspects. Former CIA librarian and amateur sleuth Riley Rhodes is loving her fresh start as the manager of the Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop. The leaves are turning, tourists are leaf-peeping, and Penniman, Connecticut is putting finishing touches on the weekend long Halloween Happening. But the village is also buzzing. Former child star Cooper Collins is overseeing the production of a romantic comedy that’s filming on the town green and his domineering socialite mother, Diantha, is planning her lavish Halloween themed wedding at her Inn on the Green. Her fiancé has run the Inn's kitchen for years, ably aided by his recent ex-wife, chef Mary Ann Dumas. An old friend of Riley’s, Mary Ann turns to her when the bride requests a spooky ice cream wedding cake. But the weekend takes a frightful turn when Diantha is found dead and suspicion falls on Mary Ann. The cast of potential suspects is long—each wedding guest had a chilling motive to kill the vicious heiress. Can Riley unmask the murderer before another guest ends up on ice?
Download or read book Ice Cream Murder written by Leighann Dobbs and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When millionaire Regis Banks drops dead at his own party, everyone assumes it was from natural causes - after all, the man was celebrating his one-hundredth birthday. ... Everyone except Lexy Baker's amateur sleuth grandmother, Nans, and her three friends, that is. When it turns out that Regis' death might have been caused by more than just old age, Nans refuses to let the trail grow cold - especially after a local reporter trying to get a scoop threatens to write an article blaming the death on Lexy. It doesn't take long before Nans and Lexy are up to their eyeballs in suspects. And when those suspects start dropping like flies, Lexy and Nans have to step up their game before the killer claims their next victim.
Download or read book Ice Cream Murder Book 1 written by Jennifer Martin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Claudia opened her dream ice cream shop, a dead body was definitely not on her list of decorations. After her neighbor and friend David finds himself suspected of the crime, Claudia enlists the aid of a Detective friend to find the killer before time runs out.