Daryl Wood Gerber
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Pirate Week is sweeping through Crystal Cove and keeping Jenna Hart and her bookstore, the Cookbook Nook, plenty busy. But she's not too swamped to also host the local Chocolate Cookbook Club's meeting--especially because the guest of honor is her friend, candy maker and cookbook author Coco Chastain. Jenna whips up a delicious event amidst the rowdy festivities, but the mood is soon broken by robberies, simmering tempers, and a dead body--Coco's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jenna Hart leaves behind the high-pressure world of advertising and returns home to Crystal Cove, California. Once there she helps an aunt open a culinary book-shop and cafe. She enlists her old college roommate, celebrity chef Desiree Divine to attend the grand opening, but when Desiree turns up dead Jenna will have to read between the lines to catch the killer before another body is served cold.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With a theater foundation tea and an art show planned at Violet Vickers's estate, Courtney is hired to create charming fairy gardens for the event. It's not so charming, however, when her best friend Meaghan's ex-boyfriend turns out to be Violet's latest artistic protégé. Even worse, not long after Meaghan locks horns with him, his body is found in her yard, bludgeoned with an objet d'murder. There's a gallery of suspects, from an unstable former...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Cookbook Nook is set to host the town's upcoming Grill Fest, a tasty tradition which pits local amateur chefs against one another to concoct the most delicious dishes. This year's challenge: grilled cheese. But with competing chefs bearing grudges from past years, more mouths are running off than savoring the fare. The expression "too many cooks" proves all too true when the eight-time champ is found murdered in the alley behind the café. Soon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jenna Hart has packed The Cookbook Nook chock full of everything from ghostly texts to witchy potions in anticipation of the annual fund raiser luncheon. But there's one unexpected addition to the menu: murder. When the Head Priestess of the Winsome Witches is found dead under mysterious circumstances, there's no logical answer and plenty of blame to go around. With her aunt, Vera, unable to call on her ability to foresee the future, Jenna will have...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As the Wild West Extravaganza rides into Crystal Cove, California, Cookbook Nook store owner Jenna Hart is ready to indulge her appetite for grilled and barbecued treats and maybe even try the Texas skip. But when the body of one of her father's neighbors is found the next morning smoldering in a bonfire, the rodeo revelry is extinguished. Sylvia Gump had acquired plenty of enemies with her practice of illegally encroaching on her neighbors' properties--including...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The owner of a whimsical fairy-gardening tea shop in Carmel, California investigates after an unpleasant local art critic is found stabbed to death with a decorative letter opener in the second novel of the series.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Cozies
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Courtney is delighted when her tiny friend Fiona returns from the fairy realm, appearing at the base of a Cypress tree. When her Ragdoll cat, Pixie, emerges from her own portal -- aka the cat door -- the three set off for a busy day. Busier than usual, since Courtney has rented a small plot of land at the Flower Farm, where she hopes to grow her own supplies for her fairy-garden business. Plus, the annual Summer Blooms Festival is coming up, and Courtney...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The buoyant mood at Bistro Rousseau deflates when Chef Camille's sister, Renee, turns up dead in the chef's kitchen, and Mimi Rousseau must tease the real killer out of a mélange of menacing characters. Crush Week in Nouvelle Vie is a madhouse - in a good way. Tourists pour into town for the pressing of the Napa Valley's world-renowned grapes, and all the town's businesses get a nice lift, including Bistro and Maison Rousseau. Mimi is raising the...
12) A deadly éclair
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The owner of a Napa Valley inn comes under suspicion when her business partner is murdered.