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By Lisa Harris (Barbour Publishing, Inc)

Get ready to cook up a second helping of Pricilla Crumb and her hilarious schemes to serve up justice. When Reggie Pierce, who runs Pricilla Crumb’s favorite bakery, is found dead, Pricilla finds herself hot on the trail of another sticky scandal that begins with murder. But, as Pricilla chases after clues to catch a killer, will the road to her long-distance romance with Max hit a permanent detour?

By Lisa Harris (Barbour Publishing, Inc.)

Laugh and cry along with Chef Pricilla Crumb as the guest list at her son’s Colorado mountain hunting lodge quickly turns into a suspect list for murder. Then Pricilla’s favorite baker ends up dead with Pricilla caught in a sticky scandal. Finally one of Pricilla’s former culinary students is arrested for murder and in need of her help. And along the way, rejoice as love blooms for Pricilla in a second-chance romance.

By Lisa Harris (Barbour Publishing, Inc)

Pricilla never expected to be involved in a real life mystery, but that’s exactly where she finds herself when she joins her son at his hunting lodge in the beautiful Colorado mountains. A superb cook and articulate hostess, Priscilla plans an informal buffet for the guests at her son’s hunting lodge. But the dinner party turns to chaos when a guest is found dead after sampling one of her salmon-filled tartlets.

By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

Bea finds herself obligated to help a businessman whose life is in danger. and is sucked into a community packed with scandal, intrigue and corruption Bea finds herself obligated to help a businessman whose life is in danger.

By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

A widowed amateur sleuth shadows an international art thief from London to Bruges in this “sprightly second cozy” by the author of False Charity Bea Abbot doesn’t do murder. The modest agency she runs from her Victorian home in Kensington is better at finding good domestic help and the best caterers. Yet how can she turn away her oldest friend? Velma’s prodigal stepson Philip has vanished. So has a valuable pre-Raphaelite painting from the home of Philip’s eccentric godmother, Lady Lucinda Farne. Seeing that Lucinda’s been stabbed to death, she can’t possibly clear Philip’s name.

By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

An Abbot Agency Mystery While Bea Abbot worries that she’s lost control of her domestic agency, she’s asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric little musician falsely accused of murder. She doesn’;t realize how dangerous this might be until Jeremy, fleeing from attempts on his life, lands up on her doorstep. Researching the gang who’d used an attractive girl to entrap Jeremy, Bea finds traces of them throughout high society.

By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

Bea Abbot discovers that at least one of her neighbours is hiding a shocking secret in the latest intriguing Abbot Agency mysteryWhen the party wall dividing the gardens of Bea Abbot and her fiancé Leon collapses, amongst the ensuing chaos a human skeleton is unearthed in Leon’s garden. Having only just purchased the property, Leon and Bea set out to discover more about the house’s previous owners. Before they can proceed in their investigation however, the pair fall victim to an elaborately-laid trap. With her home, livelihood and the agency under threat, Bea appears to be the subject of a meticulously-planned vendetta. But why? And why is Leon becoming strangely distant?

By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

In the new Ellie Quicke mystery, Ellie is forced to think the unthinkable about her own daughter, Diana. Could she be a murderer?Ellie has always disliked the local big estate agent, aka Great White Shark, and is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she is carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie is soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy.

By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

Ellie Quicke is surrounded by problems on all sides – will she sink or swim?Ellie’s friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths in the community which might or might not be suicide, and various relatives of the deceased confirm their suspicions. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady moving in and out of dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery. At the same time, the project to turn the quirky, turreted Pryce House into a hotel is dogged by problems and suspicion falls on the difficult twelve-year-old boy Mikey who Ellie has taken in. Social Services threaten to remove him into care. And Ellie’s pregnant daughter Diana has been juggling problems caused by the slow convalescence of her estate agent husband.

By Anita Higman, Hillary McMullen (Forget Me Not Romances, a division of Winged Publications)

When Anne’s mother agrees to marry a wealthy, mysterious man, she expects a nice mansion in the hills. But their new home, Belrose Abbey, is more like a castle—imposing, cold, and full of shadows. The more Anne explores the corridors and vacant rooms and dusty crannies, the more she discovers about the abbey’s master—her soon-to-be stepfather—Ivan Helsburg. As her mother’s wedding draws closer, Anne begins to harbor a creeping suspicion that all is not well at Belrose Abbey.