Download or read book Poison Spiced Cupcakes written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge is only sweet when you’re not the victim… When the Lakeshore police department’s Christmas party turns deadly and outside investigators are brought in, cupcake baker Isabel Addington once again finds herself a suspect in a murder. Someone is either trying to frame her or kill her, and it’s not clear which. The list of people who want to silence her isn’t exactly a short one. She’s the primary witness in a murder trial, where the family of the accused doesn’t want her to testify. Her own divorce hearing is rapidly approaching, where her husband won’t want all his secrets aired. And if that wasn’t enough, her business partner’s ex keeps showing up where he’s least wanted, blaming everyone else for his troubles. Isabel finds herself in a game of cat and mouse with someone who seems bent on revenge. Can she figure out who’s behind it all before she loses her freedom, or worse, loses someone she loves? If you love cozy mysteries with found family, amateur sleuths, and food, then you'll love this sweet cozy mystery. Poison-Spiced Cupcakes is the fifth book in Emily James’ Cupcake Truck Mysteries. Cupcake recipe included!
Download or read book Dead Velvet Cake written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cupcake food truck owner Isabel Addington has plenty on her plate without adding a side of murder. She’s trying to get a vendor spot in Lakeshore’s completely booked summer festivals. She’s navigating her new—and strange—relationship with the Cartwright/Holmes family. And she’s fighting back against the fears from her past that keep trying to block her from a good future. When she finally lands a coveted spot at the annual sandcastle-building competition, she thinks her troubles are finally behind her. Until one of the teams digs up a body right in front of Isabel’s food truck. And she knows the dead man. Now to keep herself and her new friends out of danger, Isabel has to find the real killer before he or she gets away…or ruins Isabel’s business and life. If you love cozy mysteries with found family, amateur sleuths, and food, then you'll love this sweet cozy mystery. Dead Velvet Cake is the second book in Emily James’ Cupcake Truck Mysteries series. Cupcake recipe included!
Download or read book Deadly Arms written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have much more to fear than fear itself… Former lawyer Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes’ week is off to a rough start. Her mom showed up from Virginia for an unannounced visit, there’s a particularly virulent strain of the flu going around Fair Haven, and her friend Mandy discovered blood in one of the guest rooms of her bed-and-breakfast. A lot of blood. With Mandy’s livelihood at stake and half of Fair Haven’s police department out sick, Nicole and her mom end up engaged in their version of mother-daughter time—investigating a murder. The case might prove to be one of the most challenging they’ve faced. The victim’s body is missing. The evidence points to all his co-workers, none of whom seem to have a motive. And Mandy’s attempts to help look a lot more like meddling. But just because they don’t have a firm lead on who the murderer is doesn’t mean the murderer doesn’t know them…and everything they fear.
Download or read book Sugar and Vice written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would kill a hundred-year-old man at his own 100th birthday party? That’s what cupcake truck owner Isabel Addington is left asking herself when she’s hired to cater a birthday party where the guest of honor dies before he can even taste her cupcakes. But it’s none of her business. She needs to focus on preventing her abusive husband from finding her and on keeping her struggling food truck afloat. When the police declare the dead man’s death a murder, neither of those goals seem likely. Her fingerprints were all over the murder weapon… if you can call a bottle of ketchup a weapon. Now the woman who hired her is refusing to pay, a nosy reporter is putting her true identity at risk of discovery, and the dead man’s handsome grandson wants to prove she killed his grandfather. Her future holds either a casket or an orange prison jumper unless she can find out who really went to all the trouble and risk of killing a hundred-year-old man. Sugar and Vice is the first book in award-winning author Emily James’ Cupcake Truck Mysteries. If you love cozy mysteries with found family, amateur sleuths, and food, then you'll want to sink your teeth into this story today! Cupcake recipe included!
Download or read book Bucket List written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one should have murder on their bucket list… Former lawyer Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes knows she’ll eventually have to either remove the former from in front of lawyer or embrace a new life making maple syrup full-time. Problem is she’s not sure she’s cut out for either. When the museum curator who helped her find a replacement antique sap bucket is accused of murdering one of his employees, Nicole agrees to take the case as a way to decide at last which career path she’ll follow. If she can’t successfully argue his case in court, she’ll resign from a legal career for good. Unfortunately, the case turns out to be one of the most challenging she’s faced—from rare fatal diseases to a client whose defense is that he hallucinated a bear. The deeper she gets into the case, the more it seems everyone has a secret to keep. And secrets are seldom sweet…
Download or read book Gum Drop Dead written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While cupcake food truck owner Isabel Addington is baking up sweets, everyone around her seems to be cooking up murder. Isabel and her business partner Claire are working out of a borrowed truck that’s too small for them, but they couldn’t miss the opportunity to sell their cupcakes at the annual hot air balloon festival. It’s the break they need to expand the business. But the day goes from bad to worse to murder when a man plummets to his death from one of the hot air balloons. The operator swears the man jumped out on his own. The man’s family insists he wouldn’t have killed himself. Isabel finds herself in the middle of the investigation again, but more is at stake than she realized. Especially when someone delivers a threat into the hands of one of the people Isabel loves the most. If you love cozy mysteries with found family, amateur sleuths, and food, then you'll love this sweet cozy mystery. Gum Drop Dead is the third book in Emily James’ Cupcake Truck Mysteries. Cupcake recipe included!
Download or read book Rooted in Murder written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2019-04-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions run deep. The truth runs even deeper... Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes feels like she finally has the life she always wanted. She's working on figuring out her new role as a wife, settling into her job as a partner at a law firm, and preparing to plant new trees at Sugarwood. Right up until her dog digs up a skeleton at the spot where they're supposed to plant their trees. Nicole's hopes for avoiding being sucked into the decade-old crime go up in smoke when her nemesis calls in the favor she owes him. And as she tries to dig up the truth, it begins to look like the past could have terrible consequences for her future.
Download or read book Murder on Tap written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth doesn’t always set you free… Former lawyer Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes thinks she’d be happy to spend her life making maple syrup and never take part in another murder investigation again. At least, she thinks so right up until the photographer she hired dies on the tour she’s leading and the main suspect is her friend’s niece, Holly. When Holly disappears as well, Nicole faces what looks like a locked-room mystery. One of the people on the tour must have committed the crime, yet none of them could have done it. To keep an innocent woman from going to prison, Nicole’s thrown right back into the midst of another hunt for a killer. A killer who knows exactly where she lives…
Download or read book Stumped written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes nothing’s more puzzling than the truth. Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes-Cavanaugh thinks she’s worked her last case before her baby is born… Right up until a man covered in blood walks into her law firm. He claims he doesn’t know how the blood got there or who it belongs to. He’s desperate for Nicole’s help. But with her license still under probation and her baby due soon, Nicole’s not sure how much she’s willing to risk, especially when his case looks like it could put more than her own life in danger.
Download or read book End of the Line written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignorance is rarely ever bliss… Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes’ wedding day is fast approaching, and what she should be focused on is the last-minute details like dress fittings and cupcake tastings. She’s not. Fair Haven’s police chief is missing and another Fair Haven PD officer has been brutally murdered. When evidence starts showing up that implicates Nicole’s fiancé, Mark, as the mastermind behind it all, Nicole knows she has to investigate, otherwise she might be taking her vows through prison cell bars. But doing so will bring her directly into conflict with the worst criminal she’s yet faced—one who’s willing to do anything to remain anonymous.
Download or read book Guilty or Knot written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half-truths and lies… …It’s what a lawyer’s life is made of. Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes-Cavanaugh has her hands full preparing for the birth of her baby and setting up to show movies on the weekends in her maple syrup bush. Tourist season has come to Fair Haven. But when an opportunity arises to represent a client who insists he’s innocent, she can’t turn it down. It might be her last chance before the baby is born. And it’s a puzzle. Based on the evidence, the woman’s death couldn’t have been natural causes, an accident, a suicide, or a murder. What’s left? As Nicole digs into the case, it ends up not being the only mystery she has to solve, either. The people closest to her are doing something behind her back…
Download or read book Almost Sleighed written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth always comes with a price… Former lawyer Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes has finally settled in to her new home in Fair Haven, and her first maple syrup season is upon them. It’s not going as smoothly as she’d hoped. Their sap lines keep springing leaks, and as if that wasn’t enough, Nicole finds their groom-mechanic, Noah, apparently trampled in one of the horse stalls. Fair Haven’s interim police chief is ready to declare it an accident, but Nicole believes otherwise. With Noah in a coma, she’s determined to figure out who wanted to kill him before the perpetrator can return and finish the job. But whoever attempted to kill Noah has other ideas and is willing to do whatever it takes to stop Nicole from discovering the truth—even destroy Sugarwood and the man Nicole loves.
Download or read book Bushwhacked written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2016-11-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the most beautiful places hide the darkest secrets… Former lawyer Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes has packed up her life in Washington, D.C., to move to the tourist town of Fair Haven, Michigan, and take over the maple syrup business she inherited from her uncle. But trouble seems to find Nicole wherever she goes. Caught in a snow storm on her way into town, she hits what she thinks is a deer. It turns out to be the manager of the local animal shelter, and the collision isn’t the primary cause of death. Feeling guilty anyway, Nicole convinces the interim police chief to allow her to help with the case, even though she’s also busy trying to settle in to her new role as owner of Sugarwood and figure out her unusual friendship with the county medical examiner. As Nicole closes in on being able to put the killer behind bars, will she manage to find the evidence she needs before the murderer puts her in a cage—or a body bag—instead?
Download or read book A Sticky Inheritance written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing the truth is sometimes worse than believing the lie... Especially when murder is involved. When Nicole’s uncle dies and she inherits his maple syrup farm, she thinks it’s time to leave her career as a criminal defense attorney behind for a life that allows her to stay far away from murderers and liars. For half a day at least. Her uncle’s suicide looks like it wasn’t a suicide at all. The local police chief doesn’t want to reopen the case. Murder’s bad for business in a tourist town, after all. The handsome county medical examiner—who’s exactly her type and all wrong for her—is willing to help. But that means returning to the world of justice that Nicole hoped to leave behind forever. When the truth’s a sticky thing, it’s hard to know what’s worth risking your life for. Mystery/Cozy Gold Medalist in the 2018 IPPY Awards Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Writer's Digest Ebook Awards
Download or read book Tapped Out written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one is exactly what they seem… Former lawyer Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes should be focusing on planning her wedding and a friend’s baby shower, as well as running her maple syrup farm. Instead, her “former” profession won’t let her go. Her maid of honor, Elise Scott, is suspended from her job as a Fair Haven police officer for investigating a case she shouldn’t have been anywhere near, endangering not only her career but also her relationship with a fellow officer. Nicole can’t believe Elise would have risked so much without a good reason. When Nicole finds out that the reason involves Elise's children, she ends up defending a man she isn’t convinced is innocent. And the deeper she goes into his case, the more she becomes a target of very dangerous people…
Download or read book A Sampling of Murder written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The location looks like the perfect spot for their new bakery…right up until their landlord is shot dead in their kitchen. Cupcake truck owner Isabel Addington and her business partner, Claire, have finally found a storefront they can afford for How Sweet It Is. But when the landlord who gave them the great deal is murdered and vandals target their store, it begins to look like they might not even be able to open their doors. And the bitter icing on the cake is that Isabel has to divide her time between their bakery and preparing to testify at the trial for one of the murders she helped solve. A trial where her abusive ex knows she’ll be, and where vocal opponents are already calling into question her character all over social media. If Isabel wants to hold on to her dream of opening a bakery—not to mention hold on to her life—she’ll have to dive back into investigating yet another crime. But as she starts unraveling secrets, she quickly realizes that nothing is as it seems. If you love cozy mysteries with found family, amateur sleuths, and food, then you'll love this sweet cozy mystery. A Sampling of Murder is the fourth book in Emily James’ Cupcake Truck Mysteries. Cupcake recipe included!
Download or read book Slay Bells Ringing written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two twisty cozy mysteries by award-winning author Emily James... In "Unsilent Nights," Criminal defense attorney Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes wanted nothing more than to relax and spend time with her new husband someplace warm for her honeymoon. But things rarely ever go as planned. With her husband sick from a source they can't identify and a fellow passenger who went missing while the ship was in the middle of the ocean, Nicole has more than one mystery to solve. In "Ginger Dead Man," cupcake truck owner Isabel Addington was hoping the Christmas season would help turn her struggling business around. Instead of making cupcakes, she ends up investigating a murder when it looks like the police aren't taking the death of a homeless man seriously. This collection includes a Maple Syrup Mysteries novella and a Cupcake Truck Mysteries novella.
