Where there's smoke, there's murder and probably a cake in the oven.From Scotland to the USA and Canada murder is on the menu in this deliciously deadly collection of culinary cozy mysteries. Join sharp-witted sleuths as they solve crimes stirred up in kitchens, cafes, and Highland Games, armed with nothing but their charm, curiosity, and maybe a good rolling pin.Each story comes with a recipe, so you can cook up your own alibi while the detectives cook up a case.Be...

A witty, wild anthology "filled with excellently plotted stories" of cooking, cleaning, and crime by some household names in mystery fiction ( South Florida Sun Sentinel).Join Nevada Barr, Barbara Collins, Carole Nelson Douglas, Eileen Dreyer, Vicki Hendricks, Suzann Ledbetter, Elisabeth Massie, Christine Matthews, Denise Mina, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, S.J. Rozan, and Julie Smith on a riotous ride through the dark but often hilarious cor...

New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant returns to her beloved Dark Warriors series with sixteen all-new short stories featuring the cherished characters you’ve been missing.Defenders against evil. Bound by the gods. The Dark Warriors fought their battle from ancient Scotland to the modern world—where love set them free...Now, with the past evil behind them and things quieter than they remember in ages, they can cele...

A stolen brooch, a midnight heist, and one very determined lady detective.When eccentric Aunt Butty accidentally gives away a priceless heirloom at a village winter fête, Lady Ophelia Rample must turn cat burglar to retrieve it before scandal rocks 1930s London society.

A new collection of hilarious jokes on anything and everything to do with sleepovers. Divided into sections, it features all the fun of sleepover visits, the food, the videos, the games, the music, the gossip, the telling of creepy late night stories, the joke telling and giggling - and of course the sleeping!

The bittersweet saga of the handsome colt that is wrenched from a happy country home and almost worked to death as a London cab horse is adapted for easy reading. Large type, short chapters, and expressive art make this a must for all animal lovers.

"How are you today, Thelma?" asked Linda."Good dear, good," she answered. "How's yourselfs?""We're good too," answered Linda. "Isn't it a beautiful day!""They're all good days if we're here to see them," answered the older woman with a smile.Like the tides that have washed her shores forever, the story of Cape Breton has always been one of comings and goings. Native peoples came here while Europeans were still living in caves. In 1820, the fiery Presbyterian mi...

Recipes, holiday codas, and epilogues to some of your favorite stories by Josh.

A unique collection of stories from bestselling authors Angela Marsons, Rob Sinclair, Joy Ellis, Louise Beech and many more!Written in the Stars is a festive charity anthology with short stories from a variety of authors, including international bestsellers and award-winning writers. There's something for everyone, with tales that will make you laugh, make you cry, or make you sleep with the light on. It's the perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter's...

The national bestselling author of Caught Read-Handed revisits Fort Myers Beach, Florida, where the proprietors of a local bookstore café occasionally take a stab at solving murder...At their seaside Read ‘Em and Eat bookstore café, Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield offer fresh scones, great books, and excellent detective work…With their book club season wrapping up with The Florida Life of Thomas Edison, Sassy and Bridgy de...

In 2012, Josh began a holiday tradition of writing holiday codas for some of her—and your—favorite stories. At the request of readers, she collected the codas in an expanded and edited edition which was published in 2015 as Merry Christmas, Darling.In 2017, Josh did a second collection titled Christmas Waltz.n the years that followed, she's written an additional twenty-nine codas, so it seems about time to do a third collection!

"…a pitch-perfect bedside anthology." —Loreth Anne White, bestselling author of The Patient's SecretThis second anthology from members of Sisters in Crime—Canada West presents sixteen stories of women we recognize through their experiences … and ours.They vary in tone from the lighthearted wit with which the librarian in "The Fair Rosamund and the Summer of Love" shows her husband the folly of his crush on another woman, to the dark and deeply dist...