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Continue reading →: Secrets and Pies (A Callie’s Kitchen Mystery #3) by Jenny Kales
Summertime in Crystal Bay means tourist season for Calliope “Callie” Costas, owner of Callie’s Kitchen, a Greek-meets-Midwest from-scratch eatery. Business is booming but so is the stress. Callie can barely keep up with the demand for her famous summer fruit pies and savory Greek delicacies, plus she’s agreed to bake…
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Continue reading →: The Body in the Wetlands (A Jazzi Zanders Mystery #2) by Judi Lynn
When established house flippers Jazzi Zanders and her cousin Jerod donate a week’s worth of remodeling work to Jazzi’s sister Olivia, they’re expecting nothing more than back-breaking roofing work and cold beers at the end of each long, hot day. With Jazzi’s live-in boyfriend and partner Ansel on the team,…
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Continue reading →: Spiced and Iced (A Callie’s Kitchen Mystery #2) by Jenny Kales
The season is bright when Calliope “Callie” Costas agrees to contribute her Greek snowball cookies to a December bridal shower at The English Country Inn in the scenic waterfront town of Crystal Bay, WI. But when Callie finds a colleague dead, she's sucked into another murder investigation — all while…
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Continue reading →: Somerset stew with cheddar & parsley mash
Ingredients 1 tbsp oil 1 onion, finely chopped 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 1 large carrot, finely chopped 1 leek, chopped 1 tbsp tomato purée 400g can chopped tomato 200g can butter bean, drained 400g can flageolet bean, rinsed and drained 200ml dry cider 250ml vegetable stock few sprigs…
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Continue reading →: Moroccan mushrooms with couscous
Ingredients 1 red onion, sliced 1 tsp olive oil ½ tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground cumin 300g mushroom, quartered 400g can chopped tomatoes 410g can chickpeas, rinsed and drained 1 tsp clear honey 175g couscous 50g soft dried apricots, diced handful flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped Method Fry the onion…
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Continue reading →: Murder at the Marina (A Kelly Jackson Mystery #5) by Janet Finsilver (Review added)
Kelly Jackson, manager of the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast, is fond of the Doblinsky brothers, Ivan and Rudy, members of the Silver Sentinels, a crew of crime-solving senior citizens in their Northern California seaside hamlet. After she discovers a jewel-encrusted dagger—with what appears to be dried blood on the…
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Continue reading →: Sifting Through Clues (Cookbook Nook Mystery #8) by Daryl Wood Gerber
Book clubs from all over have descended on Crystal Cove to celebrate the library’s Book Club Bonanza week, and Jenna Hart has packed the Cookbook Nook with juicy reads and tasty cookbooks. But she’s most excited about spending an evening with the Mystery Mavens and their moveable feast, when they…
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Continue reading →: Yarned and Dangerous (Tangled Web Mystery #1) by Sadie Hartwell
Josie Blair left Dorset Falls twelve years ago in hopes of making it big in New York City. But after earning an overpriced master’s degree and getting fired by a temperamental designer, she finds herself heading back to her hometown. Her great-uncle was injured in a car accident, and newly…
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Continue reading →: Connect the Dots (Mah Jongg Mysteries Book 3) by Barbara Barrett
How could a thirty-something man fall to his death from a fourth-floor balcony he knows is defective? That’s the question freelance writer Micki Demetrius is asked to answer by the man’s grieving mother, Clarissa White, who refuses to believe his death was an unfortunate accident. But when the authorities determine…
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Continue reading →: Fatal Frost (Dewberry Farm #2) by Karen MacInerney
Lucy Resnick’s nerves are as tight as a tea cozy. Her new goats, Hot Lips and Gidget, keep making a break for the town square, her truck is dying, and her boyfriend’s gorgeous ex-wife is in town for the holidays. Worse, someone’s digging holes on her land…and uprooting her peach…
