Author: Tamar Myers Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101014768 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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From the national bestselling author of Butter Safe Than Sorry Magdalena Yoder gets caught up in a case of hotcake homicide... During the annual church breakfast, Minerva J. Jay slumps over dead after ingesting stacks and stacks of pancakes. Police Chief Ackerman wonders if the serving of fatal flapjacks is a case of assault and batter. He turns to Magdalena for help, but first she has to make a special delivery of her own...
Author: Maymee Bell Publisher: Crooked Lane Books ISBN: 168331879X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 284
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When her catering event turns frosty, pastry chef-slash-amateur sleuth Sophia Cummings must solve a murder if she wants to earn her dough Sophia Cummings may be unlucky in love, but she knows that the way to a man's heart is through his sweet tooth. This evening, she plans to use that knowledge—and her skills as a New York City-trained pastry chef—to open the hearts and wallets of Rumford, Kentucky’s richest men. Sophia, proprietress of For Goodness Cakes, has been commissioned to cater the Heart of the Town Library charity fundraiser at Grape Valley Winery. She’s spent all her dough to make this a successful event, raise her profile, and win more plum catering jobs. At first, the going is as smooth as an elegant chocolate ganache. After nibbling Sophia’s tasty treats, Ray Peel, the winery’s landlord, announces he will pay off Rumford’s library loan. But the evening soon turns decidedly frosty when Ray is murdered—before he can make good on his promise, and before he can pay Sophia for her catering services. For Goodness Cakes will collapse if Sophia can’t collect what she’s owed. So Sophia once again puts on her sleuthing apron to figure out who iced Ray. A glass of your favorite red or white is the perfect accompaniment to Maymee Bell’s scrumptious Batter Off Dead―with authentic Southern recipes! For fans of Joanne Fluke and Leslie Meier comes the second in Maymee Bell’s delectable Southern Cake Baker mysteries.
Author: Maddie Day Publisher: Kensington Cozies ISBN: 1496735641 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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In South Lick, Indiana, fine foods and classic cookware can be found at Robbie Jordan’s Pans ’N Pancakes. Unfortunately, her country store also seems to stock up on murder . . . Robbie and her new husband Abe O’Neill are enjoying a summer evening in the park with fellow townsfolk excited for some Friday night fireworks. In attendance are senior residents from Jupiter Springs Assisted Living including Roy Bird, father to South Lick’s very own Police Lieutenant Buck Bird. Despite his blindness, Roy is a member of his group home’s knitting circle, spending quality time with some lovely ladies. But when the lightshow ends, one of the knitters who sat with Roy is found dead, a puncture wound in her neck. The poor woman’s death echoes that of Buck’s mother and Roy’s wife—an unsolved homicide. To help find the killer, Robbie’s going to have to untangle the knotty relationships deep in the victim’s past . . . Includes Recipes for You to Try! “This deliciously clever cozy—set in a deceptively charming little town—is fresh, intelligent and delightful. A winner!” —Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark Award-Winning Author for Flipped for Murder
Author: Stephen Leather Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 1844568520 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 396
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The fifth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Former SAS trooper turned undercover cop Dan Spider Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. But when a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, Shepherd has to put his life on the line to protect his former enemies. While he is undercover in Belfast, a grief-stricken Saudi whose two sons died under torture in the name of the War on Terror is planning to avenge their deaths by striking out at two people close to Shepherd. As the Muslim assassin closes in on his prey, Shepherd realises that the only way to save lives is to become a killer himself.
Author: Michael Crawley Publisher: Max Crime ISBN: 178219147X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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When Jack Hale invested in the advertising agency that belonged to his daughter, Celia, it wasn t because he really had faith in her abilities. Inexplicably, however, she quickly becomes a success. When Jack takes her out to dinner to celebrate, they witness a daring murder, committed in full public view. There's no way the killer could have escaped without a precisely orchestrated plan... or were they just very, very lucky? Is it really possible that there is a female conspiracy, dedicated to ridding the world of men who are evil... or even just inconvenient? Jack must risk everything to uncover the truth about the Women's Club.
Author: Caro Ramsay Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1628157844 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 423
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‘Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page’ —Guardian Two seven-year-old boys have been abducted from the streets of Glasgow. Both had already endured years of neglect and betrayal—but for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson the case is especially disturbing, because the boys look so much like his own son Peter... Then, with police resources stretched to breaking point, a simple house fire turns into a full-scale murder hunt. An invisible killer is picking off victims at random and, if DS Costello's hunch is correct, committing an ingenious deception. As his squad struggles to work both cases, Dl Anderson learns that deception and betrayal come in many guises. For while the boys' abductor is still out there no child is safe—as young Peter Anderson is about to find out... Praise for CARO RAMSAY 'Many shivers in store for readers, followed by a shattering climax' —The Times 'Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb, the dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns' —Observer
Author: Stuart MacBride Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1473592542 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 361
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THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'One of this country's finest crime writers' Daily Mail 'Concludes with a glorious twist' The Times 'A high wire balancing act but MacBride never falters' Scotland on Sunday THE UNPUTDOWNABLE, UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR. It was supposed to be an easy job. All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere to live out his last few months in peace. From the outside, Glenfarach looks like a quaint, sleepy, snow-dusted village, nestled deep in the heart of Cairngorms National Park, but things aren't what they seem. The place is thick with security cameras and there's a strict nine o'clock curfew, because Glenfarach is the final sanctuary for people who've served their sentences but can't be safely released into the general population. Edward's new boss, DI Victoria Montgomery-Porter, insists they head back to Aberdeen before the approaching blizzards shut everything down, but when an ex-cop-turned-gangster is discovered tortured to death in his bungalow, someone needs to take charge. The weather's closing in, tensions are mounting, and time's running out - something nasty has come to Glenfarach, and Edward is standing right in its way... ****** Praise for Stuart MacBride: 'A magnetic mix of creepy places, dark humour, horror and violence' Sun 'Dark and brilliantly written' Linwood Barclay 'MacBride is a damned fine writer' Peter James 'MacBride's thrillers just keep getting better' Express 'Crime fiction of the highest order' Mark Billingham Dead of Winter, Instant Sunday Times bestseller, February 2023 Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, November 2023
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