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The Buttercream & Batter Mysteries The Complete Six-Book Collection Welcome to William's Cove, a small coastal New England town where the harbor smells like salt and possibility, the bakery on Main Street is always warm, and the locals are exactly as charming and complicated as small-town people tend to be. Fanny Fairchild owns The Sugared Spatula, bakes the best shortcake in three counties, employs the most endearingly clumsy apprentice in the history of pastry, and — through absolutely no plan of her own — has become William's Cove's most reliable solver of murders. Her partner in ...

Sarah Stall traded her corporate corner office for four-thirty mornings and flour-dusted counters, and she's never looked back. Her cozy café, Bagels & Beans, has become the heart of small-town Clancy—a place where regulars claim their favorite booths, gossip travels faster than the coffee pours, and her loyal mutt Bean greets every customer with a wagging tail. When a famous food critic walks through her door promising to put her everything bagels on the map, Sarah thinks her dreams are finally coming true. Then he collapses at her best table, and suddenly she's not famous for her ...

When retired schoolteacher Maryanne Silva discovers the body of the town's most disagreeable resident in the storage room of her favorite café, Thursday night book club takes an unexpected turn. Pamela Hargrave was difficult, opinionated, and on a crusade to ban a romance novel from the local library—but she certainly didn't deserve to die clutching that very book in her hands. Now Maryanne and her best friend of forty-seven years, former math teacher Gretchen Roe, find themselves trading literary analysis for real-life detective work. As the two friends dig into Pamela's past, they ...

Blair Whitcome left Chicago's cutthroat restaurant scene for a quieter life on the Gulf Coast, and for three years, Pelican Harbor has delivered exactly that — salt air, good gossip, and the satisfaction of feeding a town that has slowly, generously become home. Blair's Bistro sits at the warm center of Main Street, and Blair herself sits at the warm center of the community, known for her grandmother's cast-iron recipes, her sharp instincts, and an enormous, unbothered tabby cat named Lil' Beefy who supervises the kitchen from atop the walk-in cooler and considers mouse-catching a ...

Welcome to Peaceful Falls, where antique dealer Taylor Grey has a knack for finding treasures and an unfortunate talent for stumbling across dead bodies. Armed with sharp wit, keen instincts, and her loyal Siberian Husky companion Yukon, Taylor turns every mysterious death into a puzzle she simply cannot resist solving. From dusty estate sales to quiet small-town secrets, nothing stays hidden for long when this determined dealer starts asking questions. In this charming cozy mystery series, Taylor navigates the quirky world of antiques and the even quirkier residents of her beloved hometown...

Welcome to Bagels & Beans, the coziest café in Clancy, where the coffee is always hot, the bagels are hand-rolled fresh each morning, and murder has a way of interrupting the breakfast rush. Sarah Stall traded her corporate life for small-town dreams, and she's built something special in her little corner of Main Street. But between a charming veterinarian who makes her heart race, a loyal mutt named Bean who has a nose for trouble, and a tight-knit group of regulars who feel like family, Sarah keeps finding herself tangled up in deadly mysteries that threaten everything she loves. From a ...

Retired schoolteacher Maryanne Silva never expected her Thursday night book club to become a magnet for murder. But in the charming town of Franklin's Crossing, the Bound & Determined Book Club has a knack for stumbling onto deadly secrets between discussions of classic literature and slices of lemon bar. Together with her quick-witted best friend Gretchen Roe, Maryanne discovers that solving mysteries is a lot like reading a good novel—you just have to pay attention to the clues hiding in plain sight. From a book signing gone wrong to a lakeside retreat turned deadly, from a bitter ...

When thirty-two-year-old Clarkson Crowder inherits her family's sprawling Kansas farm after tragedy strikes, she expects overgrown orchards, ornery tractors, and maybe a few escaped chickens. What she doesn't expect? Murder. Welcome to Meadow Creek, where the sweet corn is golden, the apple pie is homemade, and the body count keeps climbing. With her loyal dog Diddly by her side, her sharp-tongued grandmother Bea offering wisdom from her farmhouse porch, and her best friend Nora serving up gossip at the local diner, Clarkson discovers she has an unexpected talent for solving crimes that ...

Welcome to Pelican Harbor, a quirky coastal Louisiana town where the morning coffee is always hot, the gossip is even hotter, and the local festivals have a frustrating habit of ending in felony. At the heart of it all is Blair Whitcome — a sharp-instincted Chicago chef who traded the high-pressure restaurant world for the salt air of the Gulf Coast and opened Blair's Bistro, the culinary soul of her adopted hometown. Blair has a gift for tasting when something is off — in a sauce, in a story, or in a suspect — and that gift keeps pulling her into investigations the local detective ...

When antique dealer Taylor Grey arrives at the Pemberton Estate Sale hoping to score vintage treasures, she never expects to stumble into a murder investigation. The peaceful mountain town of Peaceful Falls is rocked when a woman is found dead in the old barn, and suddenly Taylor's keen eye for spotting fakes becomes useful for more than just authenticating silverware. With her loyal Siberian Husky Yukon by her side, Taylor finds herself drawn into a web of family secrets, valuable heirlooms, and suspects who all have something to hide. As Taylor digs deeper, she discovers that nothing at ...

Fanny Fairchild has exactly one goal for the William's Cove town planning meeting: deliver her Millionaire's Shortcake, collect her check, and fix the walk-in cooler that's been humming in the key of B-flat ever since her apprentice tried to repair it with duct tape. But when the meeting's most controversial guest — a big-city developer with powerful enemies and a knack for making small towns miserable — ends up dead, Fanny's beautiful shortcake suddenly looks less like dessert and more like a motive. With her bakery's reputation on the line and her name in everyone's mouth, staying out...

Clarkson Crowder traded her Kansas City corporate life for two hundred acres of trouble. When she inherits her family's farm after her parents' sudden death, she expects broken tractors, stubborn fence posts, and a learning curve steeper than a grain silo. What she doesn't expect is finding her cantankerous neighbor face-down in her cornfield—and becoming the sheriff's prime suspect in his murder. With the law closing in and the whole town whispering, Clarkson has no choice but to dig for the truth herself. Armed with her grandmother's sharp wit, her best friend's endless supply of pie, ...

Blair Whitcome has been planning her smoked Gulf clam chowder for the Pelican Harbor Seafood Festival for weeks, and opening night is everything she hoped for—lanterns strung over the waterfront, the smell of grilling seafood on the salt air, and a line at her VIP tasting booth that stretches to the pier. Then Lil' Beefy goes still at the edge of the koi pond, and Blair looks down to find the lighthouse keeper face-down in the water with an oyster rake across his back. Orin Voclain had been sitting on a deadly secret for twenty years. He'd finally decided to come forward. Someone made ...

When Claudia Renner stumbles into the Bound & Determined Book Club's discussion of Wuthering Heights, spilling wine and accusations in equal measure, Maryanne Silva and Gretchen Roe assume it's just another small-town scandal in the making. But when Claudia is found murdered in her office the next morning—struck down with a marble bookend shaped like the scales of justice—the two best friends realize their quiet Thursday evening has become the prelude to murder. As Maryanne and Gretchen dig into Claudia's past, they discover a trail of destroyed marriages, manipulated evidence, and ...

Taylor Grey knows the thrill of winning an auction—the rush of outbidding rivals, the satisfaction of claiming a treasure before anyone else. But when she wins a stunning Victorian mourning jewelry set after a fierce online bidding war, the victory turns deadly. Arriving to pick up her prize, Taylor discovers the seller dead on his living room floor, and suddenly she's at the center of a murder investigation in Peaceful Falls. Someone poisoned Burt Fielding, and with threatening messages appearing on her phone and a mysterious woman watching from a silver sedan, Taylor realizes the killer...

The Lobster Boil Weekend was supposed to be the biggest celebration Pelican Harbor had ever seen—four hundred people, an antique copper kettle, and sixty quarts of Blair Whitcome's Cajun lobster bisque. What Blair didn't plan for was opening her walk-in cooler at four in the morning to find the man who delivered the lobster dead inside it, with someone else's handwriting in her temperature log and a sharpened oyster knife she'd never seen before. Now her kitchen is sealed, her festival booth is the talk of the harbor, and Detective Delcambre is building a case against a hot-tempered young...

When a customer returns a sourdough loaf to The Sugared Spatula with a strange complaint, Fanny Fairchild discovers something tucked inside it that was never meant to be there: a handwritten note with a cryptic string of numbers, a partial address, and a single line that reads, "The books don't balance. They never did." Around the same time, a reclusive clockmaker is found dead in his workshop under circumstances that don't quite add up. Two mysteries, seemingly unrelated — until Fanny begins to realize that a dying man deliberately chose her bakery as the place to leave his final message...

When the Gulf Coast Cook-Off comes to Pelican Harbor, Blair Whitcome is ready to compete — shrimp étouffée prepped, roux perfected, and her oversized tabby Lil' Beefy already supervising from the prep counter. But the competition barely gets started before television chef Wade Renaud collapses at his station in a crackle of sparks, and what looked like a tragic accident turns out to be something far more deliberate. Someone tampered with Wade's stand mixer. Someone who knew exactly how to make a kill look like a malfunction. With the cook-off suspended and a killer loose among the ...

When a rival baker turns up dead in a vat of lemon curd at William's Cove's most anticipated baking competition, the contest comes to a very abrupt end — and so does any hope Fanny Fairchild had of a quiet weekend. The victim wasn't exactly beloved in the local baking community, and word is spreading fast that someone had been stealing recipes right out from under her competitors. With a killer loose among the whisks and piping bags, and Buttercream hot on a trail only he can follow, Fanny finds herself in the middle of a mystery where the sweetest competitors turn out to have the ...

Restaurant Week was supposed to be Pelican Harbor's sweetest week of the year. Five days of tasting menus, harbor lanterns, and Blair Whitcome's legendary crème brûlée anchoring the finale — until a kitchen fire at the Bayou Brasserie kills the town's visiting food critic and turns a celebration into a crime scene. The fire marshal calls it an accident. Blair calls it wrong. The grease trap was clean three weeks ago. The back window was freshly sealed. And the exit was blocked before the fire ever started. What begins as professional instinct — a chef who knows what clean kitchens ...