Small towns and gossip go together like flaky crust and sweet pastry cream.Between the police scanners, the coffee ladies, and the senior center, no secret is safe for long. But Vangie Vale wants nothing more than to stay under the radar...especially the police radar.So when her new bakery is linked to a murder investigation, nothing will stop the gossip mill from connecting her to the dead body. Can't have that.In order to clear her good name and keep her ...

A little bit Jessica Fletcher, a little bit Vicar of Dibley…The Vangie Vale Mysteries is a cozy mystery series set in St. Agnes, MT–a mountain town on the edge of a national park. Vangie is one part pastor, one part baker, and a lot of hijinks ensue because of it.If you enjoy complex cozy mysteries (each book is 300+ pages), more in the vein of a Murder, She Wrote episode, then you’ll probably enjoy Vangie. Or at least… what could it hurt ...

If the Vicar of Dibley and Cupcake Wars had a baby, it would be Vangie Vale.St. Agnes, MT is back and Vangie is at it again! Just when she’d promised to turn over a new leaf of keeping her nose out of people’s business… it’s the same leaf. Here we are all over again.If you enjoy complex cozy mysteries, more in the vein of a Murder, She Wrote episode, then you’ll probably enjoy Vangie. Or at least… what could it hurt to take a look at the f...

Mystery, murder, missing people, and Bunco. Who could ask for anything more?When Vangie brings a few fancy custard tarts to her Bunco group, she's hoping to impress the guest of honor with her pastry skills. But when the guest of honor never shows up and her body is discovered, everyone at the Bunco group is a murder suspect. Wrong place at the wrong time.Vangie Vale finds herself in another predicament trying to solve a murder in a neighboring sma...

Even in the great white North, Vangie gonna Vangie. She just cannot keep herself out of trouble, no matter where she goes. And when an old nemesis shows up and surprises her on her vacation, she can't help but investigate.This was originally written as a novella for the Passport to Murder anthology in Summer of 2021, but it's on its own now, and we hope you enjoy!

I never thought Edward would come back...When the court case against my ex was finished, I thought we were finished, too. But it turns out, it was only the beginning.Victim in the Valley is Book Four in the Vangie Vale Mysteries Series and provides so many answers about what really happened "back then" with Vangie. I hope you enjoy!SECOND EDITION: First published as Vangie Vale and the Larcenous Lava CakeRECIPE...

Just when you think you’re turning over a new leaf... surprise! It’s the old leaf.Yeah, I can't help myself. Even when I'm on vacation in the Outer Banks, if there's even a sniff of a crime... even the whiff of a murder... I can't help but get drawn into it.In another life, I should have been a cop.Instead, I'm gonna follow this tattooed guy with a gun all the way down this beachy road because he said something weird in the bakery once. Yeah, it's like I'll...

Just when Vangie Vale’s life was getting back to normal......after a murder that rocked her little Rocky Mountain tourist town, she found herself in the middle of another murder... as the chief suspect.Vangie stood shocked on the side of the curb as the sheriff stretched yellow crime scene tape around the front of her new bakery. Wouldn’t this make a lovely headline in next week’s paper: Local Baker Kills Parishioner With Pudding. Vangie’s road back to good graces ...

Anne de Cheyne has a choice. She can play the dutiful daughter and allow her mother to sell her to a greasy English sheriff, or she can take control of her own life and find her own match. After a frightening run-in with her promised husband reveals a dark secret, she makes a desperate choice. Flight. Aedan Donne needs easy money and no-questions-asked. When Milene de Cheyne offers him enough to pay all debts, requests complete silence, and pays half up front, just for a simple rec...

The first four books in James J. Cudney's Braxton Campus Mysteries, now available in one volume. Set in a cozy, secluded Pennsylvania village full of quirky, sarcastic and nosy residents, this series will be a delight to anyone who loves a good mystery!Academic Curveball: When Kellan Ayrwick returns home for his father’s retirement, he finds a dead body in Diamond Hall’s stairwell. Unfortunately, Kellan has a connection to the victim, and so do several members of h...

USA TODAY BESTSELLING SERIESSpecial edition Books 1 through 3 of Death by Chocolate seriesBOOK 1: DEATH BY CHOCOLATELindsay Powell's only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly secrets. Suddenly Lindsay finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a dead man who doesn't seem very dead and a psycho stalker.BOOK 2: MURDER, LIES AND CHOCOLATERodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, eats ...

The complete Glass Dolphin Mystery Series, now available in one collection.A small town named after a nineteenth-century traitor. A feisty antiques shop owner with a passion for authenticity. A freelance journalist with a penchant for the truth. Join amateur sleuths Arabella Carpenter and Emily Garland in the not-so-sleepy village of Lount’s Landing, where secrets, subterfuge, and real estate wranglings sometimes lead to murder.The Hanged Man’s Noose (#1)