Download or read book Murder with Cherry Tarts written by Karen Rose Smith and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pennsylvania’s Amish country, Daisy Swanson has a tea shop to run, a daughter to marry off—and a murder to solve . . . Daisy’s worried one of her employees at Daisy’s Tea Garden may be in a spot of trouble. Lately Karina’s been loading up on soup and second-day baked goods at the end of her shift—and while the shop’s scrumptious treats may be hard to resist, Daisy suspects there’s more going on, especially since Karina has been seen hanging out in a rundown part of Willow Creek. Planning her own daughter’s wedding is enough to keep her busy, but Daisy can’t help feeling a protective maternal instinct—and an instinct to investigate. It turns out Karina has been helping a down-on-his luck single dad who’s been making ends meet—barely—by selling antiques at a place called Pirated Treasures. But when an employee at the antiques store is bludgeoned to death with a marble rolling pin, Karina’s new friend is suspect number one. Though the motives are muddy and steeped in intrigue, Daisy is more than determined to flush the real killer out. Includes delicious recipes!

Download or read book Murder with Clotted Cream written by Karen Rose Smith and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catering job has come in for Daisy’s Tea Garden in Pennsylvania’s Amish country—but death will be served before dessert . . . Margaret Vaughn has hired Daisy to provide afternoon tea for her theater group. A local girl who left long ago for an acting career in New York, Margaret has returned home—with a multimillionaire husband in tow. But while Daisy bustles around Margaret’s historic farmhouse, she senses that there’s tension behind the scenes. Then she discovers the hostess on the floor of the pantry—dead and covered with clotted cream. Barely recovered from her previous sleuthing adventure, Daisy joins forces with the former detective she’s been dating to help solve the case. Should she cast suspicion on the stars of the upcoming play? Can Margaret’s sister shine a spotlight on potential culprits? Or are there clues to be found in the victim’s past? With plenty of family stress of her own to deal with, all Daisy knows is she better act fast . . .

Download or read book Murder with Oolong Tea written by Karen Rose Smith and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pennsylvania’s Amish country, Daisy Swanson finds herself going back to school expecting to serve tea—only to get a crash course in criminal justice . . . The faculty of Willow Creek High School are having a get-together after the spring concert with refreshments provided, courtesy of Daisy’s Tea Garden. Oolong tea and chocolate biscuits are just what the staff needs to help them unwind from Althea Higgins’ demanding curriculum. Her lessons on such controversial subjects as school uniforms and underqualified substitute teachers are earning her an F from her colleagues. But a failing grade was preferable to Althea falling victim to foul play. Daisy was there when her body was discovered in the school swimming pool, murdered by strangulation. Althea was certainly a strict, opinionated taskmaster, unliked by both teachers and students, but would any of them actually want to kill her? As Daisy starts asking questions, she gets a real education in Althea’s history, discovering more than enough enemies with more than enough motives to cancel her classes permanently . . . Includes delicious recipes!

Download or read book Murder with Cucumber Sandwiches written by Karen Rose Smith and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy’s Tea Garden in Pennsylvania’s Amish country is known for its elegant finger foods—but now owner Daisy Swanson has to finger a killer . . . Restaurant critic Derek Schumaker, notorious for his bitter reviews, is about to visit Daisy’s Tea Garden, and Daisy and Aunt Iris are simmering with anxiety. A bad word from the culinary curmudgeon could really hurt their business, but Daisy tries to stay confident. After all, how can he resist her cucumber sandwiches with pimento spread—not to mention the cheesy cauliflower soup and strawberry walnut salad? Schumaker takes a to-go order when the afternoon tea service is done, which Daisy hopes is a good sign. But when he perishes from a seizure, it looks like his food was dosed with something deadly. Considering a threat that recently appeared on his blog—and whispers of scandal in his past—Daisy has quite an assortment of suspects to sift through . . . Includes delicious recipes!

Download or read book Murder on an Irish Farm written by Carlene O'Connor and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organising a wedding can be murder... The entire O’Sullivan brood have gathered at St. Mary’s Church for the wedding of Siobhán O’Sullivan and Macdara Flannery. It’s not every day you see two garda marrying each other. Only Siobhán’s brother James is missing, and they can’t start without him. When James finally comes racing in, he’s covered in dirt and babbling he’s found a human skeleton in the old slurry pit at the farmhouse that Macdara has just purchased. Duty calls, so the engaged garda decide to put the wedding on hold to investigate. James leads them to a skeleton clothed in rags that resemble a tattered tuxedo. An elderly neighbor is convinced these must be the remains of her one true love who never showed up on their wedding day fifty years ago. The garda have a cold case on their hands, which heats up the following day when a fresh corpse appears on top of the bridegroom’s bones. With a killer at large, they need to watch their backs - or the nearly wedded couple may be parted by death before they’ve even taken their vows... A charming cosy mystery, perfect for fans of Margaret Mayhew and Betty Rowlands.

Download or read book Murder She Wrote A Killer Christmas written by Jessica Fletcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Christmastime in Cabot Cove, but there’s more homicide than ho-ho-ho in the newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series. Christmas is not an easy time to sell a house, but in Boston tycoon John Bragdon, Cabot Cove Realtor Eve Simpson has found a buyer for the old Jarvis homestead. Unfortunately, Eve gets a lump of coal in her stocking in the form of Kenny Jarvis, who has been missing for years and presumed dead but has now come back to stop his sister from selling their childhood home. Eve presses on, organizing a welcome dinner for Bragdon and his wife, Rose Marie, to meet the leading citizens of the town, including Jessica Fletcher. Dinner is interrupted by an uninvited guest—not Santa but Kenny, who threateningly promises Rose Marie she will never live in his house. When Rose Marie is found dead a few days later, Kenny is the natural suspect. But Jessica isn′t so sure he′s on the naughty list . . .

Download or read book MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR written by Marilyn Clay and published by The Regency Plume Press. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, Book One in Marilyn Clay's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series features clever, young Miss Juliette Abbott as sleuth. A former companion to a titled London lady, Miss Abbott has now agreed to serve as lady’s maid to one of the young ladies invited to the country estate of Morland Manor, each girl hoping to win the heart of the wealthy Morland heir. But nothing at the house party goes as planned and suddenly Juliette finds herself the number one suspect in a shocking murder! The only way to escape the muddle is to solve the mystery herself, otherwise she'll lose this position with a new geegaw tied about her neck, this one made of rope! "A fine Regency mystery brimming with suspense and intrigue, surprising twists and turns, and seasoned with a hint of romance. Witty and outspoken Juliette Abbott is a first-rate, fast-thinking young sleuth! Very well-done!” – Regency Mystery Reviews Titles in the Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery series include MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, MURDER IN MAYFAIR, MURDER IN MARGATE, MURDER AT MEDLEY PARK, MURDER IN MIDDLEWYCH, MURDER IN MAIDSTONE, MURDER AT MONTFORD HALL, MURDER ON MARSH LANE, MURDER IN MARTINDALE and MURDER AT MARLEY CHASE, coming in late 2022. In the tradition of Stephanie Barron, Georgette Heyer, and Carola Dunn, Marilyn Clay’s Regency-set mystery novels are clean, wholesome, and contain no strong language or violence. If you enjoy the historical mysteries of Melanie Dickerson, Sheri Cobb South, Victoria Thompson, Ashley Gardner, and Heidi Ashworth, you'll enjoy Marilyn Clay’s traditional, clean, sweet, and always amusing Regency-set novels. Suitable for teens and adults alike. Marilyn Clay's newest Regency Romance THE WRONG MISS FAIRFAX is now available in print and Ebook. Marilyn Clay's previous Regencies include Felicity’s Folly, Bewitching Lord Winterton, The Uppity Earl, Miss Eliza’s Gentleman Caller, Miss Darby's Debut, Brighton Beauty, A Pretty Puzzle, and The Unsuitable Suitor, all clean, wholesome Regency Romances suitable for teens and young adults with no strong language or graphic scenes. All were originally published in print and released worldwide. Look for DECEPTIONS: A Colonial Jamestown Historical Suspense Novel by Marilyn Clay set in the early 1600s, originally released in hardcover, and now available in Ebook. Catherine Parke travels to the New World in search of her betrothed, but what she finds in Jamestown is not what she expects. DECEPTIONS was praised by The Library Journal and Booklist, as was Marilyn Clay's SECRETS AND LIES, also set in Colonial Jamestown, the inspirational story of four young English girls who travel to the New World on a Bride Ship, all searching for love, a new life and the adventure of a lifetime. What they find instead is that someone in Jamestown wants one, or all of them, dead! Historical suspense thriller BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY by Marilyn Clay is set in 1776 Philadelphia. Determined to uncover who killed her beloved husband John Ross, Betsy is instead drawn into a dangerous underworld of spies and double spies. Historically accurate with vivid period details and breathtakingly suspenseful! Available in print and Ebook. STALKING A KILLER, A Murder In A Small Town by Marilyn Clay is a contemporary murder mystery, also available in print and ebook. Aspiring PI Amanda Mason thinks she’d make a pretty good Private Investigator. Trouble is, she doesn’t own a cell phone or a computer and her old green Dodge only starts when it wants to. When the Pinehill PD suddenly charge her dad with murder, Amanda has to prove she’d make a VERY GOOD PI and solve the case fast, otherwise her dad is going to jail for life! This mystery keeps readers guessing to the last page! All of Marilyn Clay’s non-fiction titles, 18th and 19th ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA, A HISTORY OF THE WATER CLOSET and three books on REGENCY PERIOD FURNITURE have attained Best-Seller status online. For more information about the author, visit Marilyn Clay Author.

Download or read book Murder She Knit written by Peggy Ehrhart and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club in quaint Arborville, New Jersey. Now, she’s trying out a new hobby—solving murders! Pamela is hosting the next Knit and Nibble meeting and can’t wait to liven up her otherwise empty home with colorful yarn, baking, and a little harmless gossip. She even recruits Amy Morgan, an old friend who recently moved to town, as the group’s newest member. But on the night of the gathering, Amy doesn’t show. Not until Pamela finds the woman dead outside—a knitting needle stabbed through the front of her handmade sweater . . . Someone committed murder before taking off with Amy’s knitting bag, and Pamela realizes that only she can spot the deadly details hidden in mysterious skeins. But when another murder occurs, naming the culprit—and living to spin the tale—will be more difficult than Pamela ever imagined . . . Knitting tips and delicious recipe included!

Download or read book Murder with Chocolate Tea written by Karen Rose Smith and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Swanson, bride-to-be and owner of Daisy’s Tea Garden in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, may have one or two more murders to solve before she says “ I do . . .” Daisy has a lot to celebrate this summer. She’s supervising a special tea event to help commemorate the 100-year-anniversary of her town’s historic covered bridge. But the main event is her upcoming wedding to her beloved fiancé Jonas. Somehow Willow Creek’s busiest brewer of specialty teas and amateur sleuth still finds time to be a guest on local journalist Trevor Lundquist’s crime podcast to discuss the last murder she solved. After the podcast, Trevor receives an anonymous tip from a caller who claims a travel chest that’s about to be auctioned holds a clue to a twenty-year-old unsolved murder. Is it a hoax or a genuine lead? When a body turns up in Willow Creek, Trevor suspects a connection between this current homicide and the cold case. Has the murderer killed again to cover their tracks? Now Daisy has another mystery steeping and Trevor may just have his next podcast . . . Includes delicious recipes!

Download or read book Murder on the Orion Express written by Gareth Vaughn and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finding a dead man in her office, Hercula Perry simply needs some time away from her job at Hjerson University. When her rich aunt Cynthia books her on the Orion Express, the first-of-its-kind tourism transport to the Moon and back, it's not what Hercula had in mind to escape, but she's not about to pass on the opportunity -- or the free food and drink. She takes the chance to get away from it all for a week, only to find things aren't necessarily smoother far above the earth as they are on its surface. Immediately a passenger dies in suspicious circumstances, pulling Hercula into another questionable death on a ship which won't return home for days. This time, she's determined to figure out what went wrong. This time, she will get to the bottom of it before they return to earth -- or before someone else, maybe even herself, is killed.

Download or read book Murder Stage Left written by Robert Goldsborough and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s curtains for a famous Broadway director, and private investigator Nero Wolfe is on the case—but his assistant, Archie Goodwin, is a suspect. When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls in Nero Wolfe. Though the corpulent genius wouldn’t normally accept a job this vague, a mutual friend dangles the prospect of a very rare orchid in exchange for his services, and Wolfe can’t resist. With a mind to suss out useful backstage gossip, Wolfe turns to his faithful assistant, Archie Goodwin, to impersonate a journalist in order to speak to the cast. Though Goodwin’s conversations prove unfruitful, on his last day at the theater, the director is murdered in his soundproof booth, poisoned by an unseen culprit during an evening performance. In short order, an actor whose health is failing attempts suicide with the same poison. Now Goodwin is a prime suspect in the director’s demise, effectively sidelining him for the rest of the case, and freelance gumshoe Saul Panzer must step in to help wrangle the various members of the play—from the ingénue and the diva to the handsome movie star and the surly stage manager—so New York’s smartest, and most reclusive, private detective can determine who is responsible for these dramatic deaths and clear Goodwin’s name once and for all. Continuing his beloved series—which also includes Archie Meets Nero Wolfe, Murder in the Ball Park, and Archie in the Crosshairs—Nero Award–winning author Robert Goldsborough “brings Nero Wolfe, late of Rex Stout, gloriously back to life” (Chicago). Murder, Stage Left is the 59th book in the Nero Wolfe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Download or read book Paint Me a Murder written by Olive Balla and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After witnessing a prelude to murder, Robin Marcato is abducted and locked inside an old, abandoned car's trunk. She's wounded, dehydrated, and hungry...and a blizzard is coming. In the absence of a trunk release, her only hope is a text sent from her dying cell phone to a detective friend. But as hours pass, Robin realizes she must find a way to escape before she starves, freezes...or her attacker returns to finish her off. And the clock is ticking.

Download or read book The Carnation Murder written by Tam May and published by Dreambook Press. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re looking for a humorous historical small-town cozy who-done-it series featuring a smart and sassy amateur woman sleuth, you’ve come to the right place! Can a forward-thinking woman help the police solve a murder in a backward-thinking town? California, 1903: Smart, inquisitive, and a firm believer in the new progressive reforms, Adele Gossling seeks a new life after the devastating death of her father. She flees San Francisco for the small town of Arrojo, planning a life of peace and small pleasures with nothing more exciting than selling fountain pens to the locals in her stationery shop and partaking in the town’s favorite pastime: gossip. Peace is exactly what she doesn’t get when she discovers her neighbor’s dead body in her gazebo. The police think they have a firm suspect: the young man who was secretly engaged to the victim. But Adele and her clairvoyant new friend Nin Branch suspect he’s innocent. In spite of the raised eyebrows from Arrojo’s Victorian-minded citizens, they set out to prove the young man didn’t do it. But if he didn’t, who did? Can Adele and Nin solve this puzzling case involving a striped carnation, a diamond ring, a note, a muddy pair of boots, and a broken promise? If you love historical mysteries, comfy cozies, amateur detectives, female sleuths, small-town mysteries, humorous whodunits, and early 20th-century fiction set in America, you’ll love this series! Fans of Lee Strauss, Rosie Hunt, Sonia Parin, and R. A. Wallace will love these books too! Pick up your copy of The Carnation Murder for a fun, absorbing mystery set in Northern California at the turn of the 20th century. What early reviewers are saying: "Really well paced and researched appropriately for the era.” "The story comes alive.” "Great new series, the time period details are interesting and the mystery intriguing." ~~~ Don't forget to check out the other books in the Adele Gossling Mysteries!

Download or read book Purebred Murder 2 written by E.Z. Pennington and published by Gizmo Media. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cute enough to die for.

Jen can’t help herself when she notices a small crowd gathering at the fair she is attending with her boyfriend, Toby. As the couple neared the crowd, they realize it wasn’t to watch a performance, but to witness a fair worker being rushed into the back of an ambulance. Toby quickly explains that the man is actually a big volunteer in the community and comes from a very wealthy family in town. Jen can’t help but be curious as to what happened to the man, and even more curious when a simple cause of food poisoning becomes deadly. Desperate for help, the man's family reaches out to Jen to see if she can sniff anything out. It's not long before she uncovers a string of suspicious deaths with some very strange connections. Can't a lady just have some peace and quiet with her dogs?

Download or read book Murder in the Ball Park written by Robert Goldsborough and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer hiding among the crowd at a Dodgers-Giants game forces Nero Wolfe to step up to the plate in this “superb” mystery (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. The national anthem is just winding down when Panzer spies a notable in the box seats: state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York. In the fourth inning, a monstrous line drive brings every fan in the grandstand to his feet—every fan save for one silver-haired senator, who has been shot dead by a sniper in the upper deck. Archie’s employer—the rotund genius Nero Wolfe—has no interest in investigating the stadium slaying, but Archie is swayed by the senator’s suspiciously lovely widow. Her husband was mired hip-deep in corruption, and sorting out who killed him will be a task far less pleasant than an afternoon at the ball park.

Download or read book Bleeding Tarts written by Kirsten Weiss and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Northern California pastry chef chases down a killer while trying to keep her business alive in this cozy mystery by the author of Pie Hard. Old West ghost towns are as American as apple pie. So there’s no better place to sponsor a pie-eating contest than the Bar X, a fake ghost town available for exclusive private events on the edge of Silicon Valley. Valentine Harris is providing the pies, hoping to boost business for her struggling shop, Pie Town, and maybe even become the Bar X’s regular pie supplier. But no sooner does she arrive in town than a stray bullet explodes the cherry pie in her hands. And the delicious dessert is not the only victim. Val finds the Bar X bartender shot dead in an alley. Egged on by her flaky friend and pie crust specialist, Charlene, Val aims to draw the shooter out. But solving a real murder in a fake ghost town won't be easy. And if Val doesn't watch her back, her pies won't be the only thing filled with lead. Includes recipes!

Download or read book The Irish Manor House Murder written by Dicey Deere and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever seeking peace and quiet for her writing, Torrey Tunet believes she has found it in the quaint village of Ballynagh, nestled in the hills of rural Ireland. But something-she can't quite put her finger on it-is awry. With every change in the wind comes some strange news. First, her closest friend, Rowena Keegan, tries to run over the esteemed Dr. Ashenden, her own grandfather and master of the biggest manor in town. Why, Torrey wonders, would anyone want to kill him, least of all his favorite granddaughter? Torrey wants to believe that Rowena's attack on the doctor was a simple fluke, but when the old man later turns up dead in the forest, and Rowena confides a pressing secret to her, Torrrey can no longer stay intentionally ignorant. An outsider, Torrey looks on in bewilderment as mysteries crop up one after another in her beloved Ashenden family, which has taken her under its wing. And when the grandfather's will is read and a gypsy, shrouded in purple, arrives on the scene, family secrets fifty years old reveal themselves just as new ones begin to arise, capturing the attention of young and old townspeople alike. Ballynagh might never be the same.