Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trading in Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up buttery muffins and other rich breakfast treats for her guests until Bernard Katz checks in. The overbearing land developer plans to build a resort next door where an endangered colony of black-chinned terns is nesting. Worried about the birds, the inevitable transformation...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bernie and Libby, owners of A Taste of Heaven, have plans to partner up with the Just Chocolate store for a taste-tempting Valentine's Day fundraiser featuring pairings of exotic chocolates, food, and wine, as well as a bachelor auction. And though Bernie isn't too happy about her boyfriend volunteering to be auctioned off, she's got too much on her plate to be jealous: one of the coolers is leaking; they need a new butter supplier, and the mother...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this delicious follow-up to Murder on the Rocks, developers have returned to Cranberry Island. This time, they're planning to wipe out a natural cranberry bog, along with the island's namesake berries, to build a luxury subdivision. Natalie Barnes isn't sweet on the idea of commercial interests souring their cozy oasis, but the single innkeeper has other problems on her plate: a withering relationship with her best friend Charlene, the sudden appearance...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kelly's spring project: rehabbing an alpaca ranch. But someone has different ideas for keeping her busy, including slashing tires and cracking windshields. Then the House of Lambspun knitting shop is trashed, and a woman is found drowned in a tub of dye. Although it seems like a burglary gone wrong, Kelly suspects there's more to it. And as disturbing incidents pile up, she must pick up the stitches of these crimes before the killer strikes again....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
While celebrating famous scholars of the past with her students, Dr. Sophie Knowles, a much loved math teacher at Henley College, must add up the clues to prove her assistant's innocence when she is accused of killing Dr. Keith Appleton, the most disliked professor on campus.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's time for the State Fair of Texas--and cooking contests galore! Fryers are heating up and stomachs are growling. But Phyllis Newsom had better watch out. Someone's brought an appetite for murder.... Phyllis and her friends Carolyn and Sam are ready to whip up their best dishes and win some ribbons in Dallas. And they're excited to learn that one of their favorite celebrity chefs--Joye Jameson of The Joye of Cooking--is broadcasting her TV show...
12) Final sentence
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jenna returns home to Crystal Cove, California to help her aunt open the Cookbook Nook. She invites her college roommate, now a culinary superstar, to appear. Then Jenna stumbles across her friend's body and she becomes the prime suspect.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Molly Pink and her crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers, are always game for a new adventure. But when their newest member is accused of turning her wedding into happily-never-after for the groom, Molly's chance to find the truth is hanging by a thread ... When Molly is invited to a major society wedding, she expects some wedding drama, though she never anticipated this much trouble. The bride is the daughter of Molly's close friend Mason--and has...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Trying to escape her overbearing mother, vintage kitchenware enthusiast and soon-to-be columnist Jaymie Leighton retreats to her family's cottage on Heartbreak Island. While there she hopes to write an article about the Ice House restaurant, owned by good friends and neighbors, siblings Ruby and Garnet Redmond. Once an actual icehouse, the restaurant is charmingly decorated with antique tools of the trade, including a collection of ice picks. One...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orlando Edison is a stockbroker using London's infatuation with foreign mining ventures to make a fortune. He has curried favor with the nation's most respected aristocrats, even inviting three of the most influential investors in England--known as the Merry Gentlemen--to be part of his latest enterprise. Despite his mysterious past, Edison is now welcomed in the highest circles and moves with ease among the rich and powerful. Yet a few days before...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the Mississippi sun beating down, An'gel and Dickce are taking a break to cool off and pet sit their friend Charlie Harris's cat, Diesel, when their former sorority sister, Rosabelle Sultan, shows up at their door unexpectedly, with her ne'er-do-well adult children not far behind. Rosabelle's selfish offspring are desperate to discover what's in her will, and it soon becomes clear that one of them would kill to get their hands on the inheritance....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a brief escape from the summer heat, Olivia Greyson returns to find the safe at The Gingerbread House stuffed with unfamiliar cookie cutters. They're part of a priceless set owned by former local Greta Oskarsonє who has come back in hopes that Olivia will broker their sale. Then Greta turns up dead. With Sheriff Del Jenkins awayє it's up to Olivia and Maddie to sift through the cookie cutters and the clues before the killer claims another...