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Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Their first big order is a sweet deal, too--five hundred cupcakes for a fashion designer's wedding. The only sour note is the demanding bridezilla who insists on original recipes for the cupcakes. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake, she immediately becomes the prime suspect. The police believe that a secret...
82) Maryann's hope
Author
Series
Amish Charm Bakery novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Secrets devastated Maryanne Harding's marriage to an Englischer--and took away her untrustworthy husband. Now the young Amish widow has found contentment cooking up treats at the bakery, raising her little girl, and comforting her ailing mother. And when Andrew Wittmer asks her to marry him, Maryanne is over the moon with happiness that she and the kind furniture maker will put down roots in her hometown... Until Andrew's uncle becomes ill, and Andrew...
83) One dead cookie
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Olivia is busy baking up special cookies for Maddie's upcoming engagement party when soap star Trevor Lane shows up unexpectedly in town. Trevor, who grew up in the neighboring town of Twiterton, left behind a number of enemies with long memories. Soon after his arrival, Trevor is found dead on The Gingerbread House porch, his handsome face branded with the image of a cookie cutter. When their friend Stacey is implicated in the murder, Olivia and...
Author
Series
Maeve Conlon novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Maeve's moving on with everyday life when the unthinkable happens: her father dies of a massive heart attack. Maeve's mother died when Maeve was very young, and growing up, it was always just her and her father. But on the day of his funeral, Maeve learns a shocking secret: she might have a sister she's never met. Maeve knows her father would never have kept something like that from her--unless he thought he had to.
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English
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"From the RITA Award-winning author of Five Days in Skye comes a sweet, romantic treat that will leave you hungry for more. Baker and pastry chef Melody Johansson has always believed in finding the positive in every situation, but seven years after she moved to Denver, she can't deny that she's stuck in a rut. One relationship after another has ended in disaster, and her classical French training is being wasted on her night job in a mediocre chain...
Author
Series
Emergency Dessert Squad mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Emergency Dessert Squad business is booming, with owner and baker Winnie Johnson working overtime to satisfy the emergency cravings of Silver Lake, Ohio. Her latest order, a plate of motivational desserts for an artists retreat, is just what she needs to keep her mind off her own relationship woes. But Winnie s problems seem like trifles when she discovers the body of retreat owner Sally Dearfield mere inches away from five oh-so-eccentric and...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"In a brand-new culinary cozy series with a fresh edge and a charming small-town setting, acclaimed author Valerie Burns introduces Maddy Montgomery, social media expert who's #StartingOver in small town Michigan after inheriting her great-aunt's bakery ... and a 200-pound English Mastiff named Baby. When Maddy Montgomery's groom is a no-show to their livestream wedding, it's a disaster that no amount of filtering can fix. But a surprise inheritance...
Author
Series
Charmed Pie Shoppe mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her pies aren't just delicious. They're having magical effects on the people who eat them--and the public is hungry for more. Discovering her hidden talent for enchantment, Ella Mae makes her own wish come true by opening...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Melanie Cooper has zero interest in catering her fifteen-year high school reunion, but Angie insists it's only right that they bask in the success of Fairy Tale Cupcakes. Everything is going better than expected until Cassidy Havers, resident mean girl and Mel's high school nemesis, picks a fight. No longer willing to put up with Cassidy's bullying, Mel is ready to tell the former homecoming queen to shut her piehole and call it a night. But as Mel...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bakery owner Hannah Swensen is leaving Lake Eden to help a friend in sunny California. But an unexpected phone call swiftly brings her back to a cold Minnesota winter...and murder... When Hannah learns that her sister Michelle's boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a murder case, she goes straight from a movie studio sound stage to the Los Angeles airport. Back in frigid Minnesota, she discovers that proving Lonnie's innocence...
Author
Series
Emergency Dessert Squad mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Baker Winnie Johnson does her best work when the heat is on. As owner of the Emergency Dessert Squad, she has a deft touch in the kitchen and a soft spot for lost causes. So when her business professor beau Jay Morgan expresses misgivings over having to fail one of his fourth-year students, Winnie cooks up a sweet solution. She'll offer an extra credit opportunity in exchange for a little help with her growing business. But when her protégé's first...
Author
Series
Union Street Bakery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Daisy McCraes life is in tatters. Shes lost her job, broken up with her boyfriend, and has been reduced to living in the attic above her familys store, the Union Street Bakery, while learning the business. Unfortunately, the bakery is in serious hardship. Making things worse is the constant feeling of not being a "real" McCrae since she was adopted as a child and has a less-than-perfect relationship with her two sisters. Then a long-standing elderly...
Author
Series
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale Cupcake bakers--Melanie Cooper is engaged to the delectable Joe DeLaura, Angie Harper and her husband Tate are savoring married life, and the bakery is bustling with happy customers. Until one of their most valued cupcake connoisseurs ends up dead. Local glass artist and cupcake lover Rene Fischer-Klein has always suffered from a wide variety of health issues. In an effort to cheer her up, her doting...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin's queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical--and makes everyone who eats them break up. Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin. And everyone who eats Syd's breakup brownies...breaks...
Author
Series
Union Street Bakery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Daisy McCrae knows that change can be sudden-and devastating. And while it doesn't have to be a bad thing, change has the power to turn your whole world upside down.... Running the family bakery and living in the store's attic might not be Daisy's dream life, but she's beginning to understand what being content feels like. And then she gets some unexpected news. In one moment, Daisy's calm existence turns into chaos. Now she's struggling to keep it...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Hedgewitch Katie Lightfoot is juggling wedding preparations, a visit from her father, and home renovations on top of her hours at the Honeybee Bakery. But when firefighter Randy Post is accused of murdering a collector of rarities, Katie steps in. Randy is not only Katie's fiance's coworker, but also the boyfriend of fellow spellbook club member and witch Bianca Devereaux. Bianca and Declan are both sure Randy is innocent, and so is Katie. However,...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Spice Isle Bakery owner Lyndsay Murray is always looking for new ways to grow her family's business. But she already regrets agreeing to host the retirement dinner for local high school principal Emily Smith. The tyrant used to be her mother's boss and they did not get along. Six guests arrive for the celebration, but only five survive. Emily starts convulsing--right after eating the curry chicken--and dies soon after. It's not long before the police...
99) Hannah's courage
Author
Series
Amish Charm Bakery novels volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Lapp's life, like a long-cherished recipe, is satisfying just the way it is. She enjoys whipping up desserts at the bakery, tutoring local children, and socializing with dear friends. One of those friends, Timothy Barkman, has made his interest in Hannah clear, but she's been in no hurry to change her circumstances. No sooner does she feel ready to grow closer to hard-working, handsome Timothy than Hannah finds she may have waited too long....
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In these stories and more, some never before published, Rob Hart explores the enticing and dangerous intersection where food and hospitality cross paths with crime and noir. Some stories are funny. Some of are dark. But each one will leaving you wanting another bite."-- provided by publisher.
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