It’s time to take you back to Bald Eagle Falls, as Erin and Vic and their friends are pulled into another mystery! A Fateful Plateful is book #16 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series. It can be read as a stand alone mystery or together with the rest of the series.
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A Fateful Plateful
Was Pa poisoned?
Everything is just fine in Bald Eagle Falls. Auntie Clem’s Bakery is stable and making good money.
It seems like ages since anyone was murdered or kidnapped. And it seems like just yesterday.
But things are not so rosy in Moose River. When Vic gets the call that her father is on his deathbed, she isn’t sure what to do. Erin takes the trip with her and it soon becomes clear to both of them that all is not right with the Jackson family.
Something dark and dangerous is going on in Moose River, and Erin Price is about to get her fill.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Ms. Workman never disappoints! When Vic’s father falls ill, Erin accompanies her to visit him. As expected of this author, the plot is strong, the storytelling flawless and the characters well developed and interesting. Highly recommended!
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️Wow, another adventure with Erin and Vic as they travel out of town and deal with Vic’s family. What great characters and such an exciting story line. Love this series.
Like baking mysteries? Cats, dogs, and other pets? Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman brings readers back to small town Bald Eagle Falls for another culinary cozy mystery to be solved by gluten-free baker Erin Price and her friends.
Have your gluten-free cake and eat it too. Sink your teeth into this sweet treat now!
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And more new releases
Once you have feasted on A Fateful Plateful, maybe you would like something else for dessert! Check out the other new releases below.
Peach Clobber
Sweet peaches, family secrets… and a farm-fresh murder.
A struggling peach orchard, a tangled love triangle, and a suspicious death have farmer Lucy Resnick’s reporter instincts on high alert in the latest Dewberry Farm mystery. Add in old bones, a decades-old disappearance, and loads of delicious peach recipes for a juicy story you won’t want to put down!
Pineapple Podcast
Pineapple Port Mysteries by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Amy Vansant, is a funny, clean, small-town, female amateur sleuth series, but with all the pulse-pounding excitement of a detective thriller. Every book in the series can be read as a standalone.
Pineapple Podcast is packed full of Pineapple Port surprises!
Charlotte hunts a killer with a curious cookie-cutter calling card who seems to be out to impress the local true-crime podcaster. The work keeps her from concentrating on the fact her boyfriend has been acting strange…it seems Declan is ready to make a few major life decisions.
Meanwhile, Mariska and Darla take over a local restaurant while the owner’s out of town, and can’t help but add a few things to the menu… bad idea, since the owner belongs to a true crime club that roots for the killers…
Mix in an earbud-wearing puppy, a starry-eyed deputy, and white-knuckle action and you’ll find yourself wanting to move to Pineapple Port…again!
Sister Spy
USA Today Bestselling author Kathi Daley brings you a heartwarming mystery series about finding answers and fostering hope while building friendships and embracing the magic of life by the sea and small town holidays.
Ainsley Holloway had come to Gooseberry Bay to find answers about her past. She’d come to find an explanation for the dreams that haunted her after the death of the cop who’d both rescued and raised her. And she’d come to identify the family she couldn’t remember but knew in her heart she’d once belonged to.
Ainsley hoped that by finding these answers, she’d also find healing. She hoped that once she’d resurrected the memories buried deep in her mind, she’d find peace.
The Cottage at Gooseberry Bay is a series about, not only finding answers, but finding hope.
Black Powers
What happens when a cop eats a radioactive doughnut?
Upon their return from a largely disappointing trip to Florida, Kallie and AB are both expecting a slow week.
However, their expectations are quickly subverted when Zeus asks Kallie for a favor, and AB finds out there are still more radioactive doughnuts out in the city — and one’s been eaten by none other than Officer Max Powers, the same man who’d helped Kallie the night of her Model Middle America audition.
And when Officer Powers becomes his greatest fear — a man with nothing left to lose, wildly desperate to enact vengeance against his brother’s killer — Kallie and AB have new, unpleasant questions to answer: Why was he targeted? How is he connected to the other Alterants? Is there someone else out there with AB’s stolen recipe?
If only they can get him back to his normal self first …
Pie in the Sky
Sweet and sour, creamy and dreamy …
After a lifetime of failure and half-hearted successes, Edith Hennessey is far from content with her life — but she’s still grateful to at least be alive. When her best friend and next-door neighbor, Martha Davidson, is found dead, Edith strives to think of a way to honor her passing.
But finding a suitable tribute is hard, and it’s even harder when her husband is convinced she’s only chasing after an elusive pie in the sky …
Mrs. Hudson & Sherlock Holmes 1-3
Enter a world of mystery and intrigue with this complete series set in Victorian London.
• A House of Mirrors
• In Sherlock’s Shadow
• A Spider’s Web
Meet Mrs Hudson: a young woman whose life is wrecked when her policeman husband vanishes on a routine case. Placed under protection by Inspector Lestrade, Nell Villiers is ripped from her old life and her own secret police work. Instead she must live as a widow, Mrs Hudson, in a safe house: 221B Baker Street.
With the case still unsolved, Nell vows to defy Lestrade and use her skills to discover what happened. She takes a lodger to cover her tracks; a young man called Sherlock Holmes. Before long, they are working together on Nell’s case. And as they work, their relationship – both professional and personal – deepens…
Soon there are two detectives at 221B Baker Street, not one. Nell and Sherlock must fight London’s criminal underworld, from street gangs to high-level espionage, and evade the enemies they make along the way. But Nell, a female detective in a man’s world, must also fight for her career and her independence.
A Brew Most Bitter
Trouble is brewing.
Paige Palmer spent her entire adult life studying to earn her doctorate in Philosophy, only to be passed over for the job of her dreams. Escaping academia, the wounded young woman wants to leave her painful past behind and experience the real world. She takes a job as barista at a quirky and cozy shop; The Roastery on 33rd, feeling somehow drawn to the charming spot in the quaint New Hampshire town.
The wooden interior walls, worn with age and saturated with the dark, rich aroma of cappuccinos past, beckon to unsuspecting pedestrians, enticing them to enter and indulge in a sip of decadence in the form of a strong brew.
But there are secrets in the Roastery that have been percolating for decades. When a body is discovered in a secret room in the building, Paige’s impatient and tough-as-nails boss becomes increasingly convinced that an in-house investigation will be necessary to catch the culprit.
As clear as the rising hum of an espresso machine at work, the clock ticks away precious seconds as a ruthless killer lurks in the shadows, ready to strike again.
100 Reasons for Murder
When Sara Bicknell spots her stolen locket around the neck of a stranger, she turns to former private investigator Kate Reed for advice on recovering the treasured family heirloom. Within twenty-four hours, Sara’s request triggers an inexplicable chain of events—including a homicide, the exposure of a criminal enterprise and skeletons in more than one closet.
Since Kate had contact with the victim hours before the murder, she becomes one of the first witnesses to provide a statement. Shortly after that, at the request of the local police, she joins the investigation as a consulting detective to help solve the case.
As Kate deftly juggles her dual roles—managing her family’s bakery-café and pursuing a series of promising leads—a variety of evidence comes to light. It includes a sterling silver bolo tie, a skull emoji, craft beer from Ohio, present-day rumors, shocking scandals from the past and a man cave stocked with bottles of bleach.
Sanctum
A life beyond redemption.
Wait! That’s Wrong. Everyone can be redeemed. Right?
Alejandro needed to feel safe, needed to prove to himself he was worth more than trash left at the side of the road.
He did things we didn’t like, things he felt he needed to do to make it in life. Like a snowball, each event built on the one before, until the nastiness lodged in his soul.
Then his daughter came into his life.
For her sake, can he change?
Bacon, Bodyguards, & Ballistics
Reeling with excitement over the opening of a private investigation agency and her budding romance with the sheriff, Piper Sandstone can’t wait to launch her dream career and return to a somewhat normal life. But danger lurks on the horizon—the dirty cops back in Chicago still want her dead. Even if it means putting the people she loves in jeopardy to find her. They are ruthless and on the hunt; no price is too steep for her head.
But Piper’s already in a predicament of prodigious proportions when an art heist at the Bancroft Estates leaves a bodyguard dead… and she and her crime-fighting gal pals are at the center of the crime scene.
Tangled in another mystery in Savory, Alabama, Piper is determined to solve the case with the help of her quirky amateur sleuth friends dubbed the Dentures and Diamonds Crime Squad. These zany retirees traded in their female rock band glory to fight crime, but can they help Piper maintain her cover and catch the killer before she or another Savory resident winds up dead?
First to Dough
It never rains but it pours.
Dogwood Donuts shop owner and amateur sleuth, Maggie Sharpe has her hands full with the Spring Fling, and her donut truck is doing a booming business as well.
Things get a bit strange, however, when someone in a truck begins to make a nuisance of themselves at the donut shop. Maggie wonders if the driver of the truck is stalking either her, or one of her employees.
The cherry on the cake for Maggie is that two of her employees seem to be at war with one another, at a time when she needs them to be on top of their game.
When a town councilwoman turns up dead, everyone in town wonders if there’s a connection to Maggie’s Spring Fling, so Maggie is catapulted directly into investigating a murder. Can she get things back on track at the donut shop, figure out the identity of the mysterious truck driver, and solve a murder without crumbling under the stress?
