Bakeshop mysteries
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Author
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte's customers turns up dead, there's much ado about murder... The victim is Nancy Hudson, the festival's newest board member. A modern-day Lady...
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Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Torte-a small-town family bakeshop where the coffee is hot, the muffins are fresh, and the cakes are definitely to die for... It's autumn in Ashland, Oregon-'tis the season for a spiced hot apple cider with a serving (or two) of Torte's famous peach cobbler. It's also the perfect time for Jules Capshaw to promote her family's beloved bake shop by competing in The Pastry Channel's reality show, Take the Cake. The prize is $25,000. But as...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Torte, a small-town family bakeshop where the treats are killer good. It's the dead of winter in the sleepy town of Ashland, which means no tourists-and fewer customers-for Jules Capshaw and her bakery. But when she's asked to cater an off-season retreat for the directors of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, business starts heating up...until Jules finds a dead body in the freezer" -- Publisher.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jules Capshaw is still chewing over her husband Carlos's return to Ashland, Oregon. Could there be too many cooks in the kitchen? Whatever is stirring between those two will have to wait. Despite the Oregon Shakespeare Festival being dark for the winter, the bakeshop is bustling, the dough is rolling, and there's no rest for the weary . . . especially when murder is thrown into the mix. When Mindy Nolan, the owner of a new restaurant in town, turns...
5) Fudge & jury
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It{u2019}s almost spring in Ashland, Oregon, and the town is preparing for the Shakespeare Festival and the annual Chocolate Festival. Business is cookin{u2019} at Torte, and the store is expanding as Jules{u2019} team whips up crèpes filled with mascarpone cheese and dark chocolate. Torte stands a chance of being this year{u2019}s confectionery belle of the ball! Life couldn{u2019}t be sweeter{u2015}unless murder taints the batter. Evan Rowe, of...
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Jules Capshaw is trying to keep her cool as Torte gets set to make its transformation from quaint, local confectionary café to royal pastry palace. Meanwhile, Jules's estranged husband Carlos is making a desperate plea for her to come aboard his cruise ship and dazzle everyone with her signature sweets. She may be skeptical about returning to her former nautical life with Carlos but Jules can't resist an all-expense-paid trip, either. If only she...
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Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Torte--the beloved small-town bakeshop run by Jules Capshaw--is set to hit the stage. But who would have guessed that murder would makes a surprise appearance? It's the role of a lifetime for Jules. The Shakespeare Festival has returned to Ashland, Oregon, for the season and Torte has been cast as the supplier of Elizabethan-era treats for the main event. But on the eve of opening night, a brawl between Jules's friend Lance, the artistic director,...
9)
Live and let pie , Bakeshop mysteries volume 9
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Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Ashland, Oregon, looks as pretty as a postcard this holiday season. The halls are decked, stockings hung, and eyes are all aglow - mostly thanks to the buttered rum. Jules Capshaw and her staff at Torte are busier than ever...still, even the town's most in-demand bakers need to take a break. So Jules invites everyone to celebrate at the local Winchester Inn's Dickens Feast, a six-course extravaganza with Yorkshire Pudding, Christmas goose, and all...
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Spring has sprung in Ashland, Oregon, and everything at Torte seems to be coming up buttercream roses. But just when Juliet Capshaw seems to have found her sweet spot--with her staff set to handle the influx of tourists for this year's Shakespeare festival while she moves back into her childhood home--things take a dramatic turn. Jules discovers a long-forgotten dossier in her deceased father's belongings that details one of the most controversial...
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Publisher
St. Martin's paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The deep freeze has thawed in Ashland, Oregon and Torte is gearing up for a busy spring. When a surprise opportunity to launch a pop-up ice cream shop comes her way, Jules jumps at the chance to showcase Torte's signature iced drinks and cold custards. But selling the desserts of her dreams comes at a price... and, before she knows it, Jules's life swirls into a nightmare. One of the town's most colorful characters, a street performer known for wearing...
13) Mocha, she wrote
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When pastry chef Juliet Capshaw's head barista at her restaurant, Torte, is suspected of murdering a contest judge, Juliet sets out to investigate and find the killer.
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"As November's autumnal hues fall over the Shakespearean hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, Jules and her team at Torte are putting the finishing touches on an authentic Elizabethan feast for the opening gala of a new museum exhibit at Southern Oregon University. The unveiling of the Bard's lost manuscript, Double Falsehood, will be celebrated with silky chocolate showpieces, lardy cakes, frangipane tarts, and jellies with chestnut cream. But on the big evening,...
15) Donut disturb
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Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Love is in bloom in Ashland, Oregon. The Shakespearean hamlet is bursting with fresh spring energy. Fragrant lilacs and the sweet aroma of vanilla cake fill the air as everyone in town gathers at Lithia Park for the celebration of the year--Thomas and Kerry's wedding. It's a picture perfect day. Guests gather on picnic blankets in front of the bandshell to watch Kerry walk down the aisle and wed Ashland's favorite detective in training, Thomas....
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Things are getting spooky in Catch Me If You Candy, the next delicious installment in the Bakeshop Series from author Ellie Alexander, set in Ashland, Oregon! Halloween has arrived in picturesque Ashland, Oregon, and all of the ghouls and goblins have descended on Main Street for the annual parade. It's a giant street party and Torte is right in the mix. Jules Capshaw and her team have been baking up autumn delights and trick-or-Torte bags filled...
18) A smoking bun
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While baking up spiced curry buns and chai cookies for a moonlit snowshoe tour, pastry chef turned amateur sleuth Jules Capshaw takes Ramiro's family to the annual Downhill Dummy competition in which murder comes in first and must catch a stone-cold killer before they strike again.