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Over five thousand five-star reviews! Lindsay’s only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by people with deadly secrets. Suddenly she finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a psycho stalker, and a dead man who seems awfully active for a corpse. She will need more than a chocolate fix to survive...but that’s a good start. Come for the cookie chip cookies, stay for the murder, mayhem and fun!

Elizabeth Reading and Scarlett Harding travel to Blue Harbor, Maine, hoping to find a place more peaceful than New York City. What they discover instead is much more sinister. Elizabeth and Scarlett visit the local ice cream parlor. As they approach the counter to order, a man rushes through the doorway, clutching his throat and dying in a pool of blood. When the Chief of Police arrives and his two men begin to interrogate them, Elizabeth stares at the dashing, blue-eyed David throwing questions at her, stunned she agreed to a date with him just hours ago.

Unfortunately for Ike Krane, his parents had a wicked sense of humor. So, early on, he decided to embrace his challenges rather than run from them, which is how he become a ghost hunter and ended up visiting Redemption, Wisconsin. The problem—trouble seems to follow Ike just as it did his fictional predecessor. First, there’s the sound of a horse galloping down the neighborhood streets at night, even though there’s never a horse to be found. Then, Ike’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Kat arrives with an urgent message for him.

Five friends went into the woods. Only four came back. There’s a reason why Redemption, Wisconsin, is the home of all sorts of odd occurrences, including disappearances, murders, and general weirdness. It all started back in 1888, when all the adults vanished, leaving behind only the children. No one knows what happened to the adults, but there is no end to the rumors flying around. One particularly persistent rumor involves a cabin in the woods, and what supposedly lives in it. Some say if you can find it, you’ll be granted your deepest wish.

When Charlie agrees to accompany her friend Claire to her late grandmother's reading of the will, she assumes she is simply there for moral support. She doesn't expect things to get so ... strange. It’s odd enough that it takes place over a weekend, but that’s just the beginning ... They also need to stay in Claire's grandma's supposedly haunted house with Claire's estranged family. Things get even worse when a huge storm snows them in. No electricity, no phone, and no way out.

If you've got a problem, Charlie Kingsley probably has a tea that’ll help make it right. EXCEPT when it comes to love. She does NOT do love potions. Not even for Courtney, her pregnant new client who showed up three weeks before Christmas seeking a love potion because her husband was cheating on her. So, Courtney asked about poison, instead. She said she was joking. That's what happens between wives and husbands. They get angry and talk about killing each other. They don't really mean it.

Everyone knows vampires don’t exist. So when Mildred Schmidt, one of Charlie’s customers, is convinced that her next-door neighbor’s house sitter is actually a vampire, Charlie of course has to step in to see what is really going on. What she finds is … disturbing. The house sitter DOES have some peculiar habits—like digging holes in the backyard in the middle of the night. Surely, they aren’t … graves. But then Polly, a local teenager, goes missing. Of course, teenagers DO run away from time to time.

Charlie Kingsley is NOT a doctor. She is very clear about this to all her customers who purchase her teas and tinctures. But, somehow that doesn't stop her customers from treating her like a doctor. Including calling her in the middle of the night to help with an emergency. What's the emergency? Her customer's daughter, Cyndi, was attacked by a ... gargoyle? But gargoyles aren't real! Right? So, who attacked Cyndi? And whose next?

The British cozy paranormal mystery series by Holly Bell. Set in the village of Sunken Madley. Covert witch and asthmatic furniture restorer Amanda and her grumpy cat Tempest encounter a body and ghosts that lead to a past of spies, bombs plots, and generally dastardly deeds. Book 2.

Amanda Cadabra and The Hidey-Hole Truth by Holly Bell. In Kindle, paperback and large print. First in the British cozy paranormal mystery series by Holly Bell. Set in the village of Sunken Madley. Featuring grumpy cat, Tempest, reincarnated familiar to Amanda, covert witch and asthmatic furniture restorer. Her remarkably unpleasant family went over a Cornish cliff when she was three, and now the personable but persistent Inspector Trelawney is intent on digging up the past.

Award-winning author Cheryl Denise Bannerman delivers another helping of tasty Italian dishes, adorable cats, and a side of murder. In book three of this cozy culinary series, mystery author and part-time meddler, Anna Romano, opens her home to her detective boyfriend’s troubled brother, Scott. But the happy family reunion was over before it began when a body is found in her home, and Scott subsequently disappears.

This story doesn't have just one murder; it has TWO murders...Once again, Anna charms readers with her witty and candid commentary. This was definitely a juicier case than the last one. - Sandra's Book Reviews In this second installment of The Anna Romano Mystery Series, Anna gets herself into a mess that lands her in hot water with the prime suspect and her new Bo, Detective John Solace.

Anna Romano is a middle-aged, Italian woman who is also a successful published author, a cat-mama, and an excellent cook with a hankering for Italian cuisine. She lives by herself in her quaint house, in a quiet community, with a white picket fence in Central New Jersey. When she is not writing her next book or hosting book-signing events with her publicist, she is cleaning litter boxes and baking Cannolis…but never at the same time, of course!

In this Best Book Award-Winning Novel, thirty-year old Kate Grace is a successful lifestyle writer for a popular magazine in New York City. She has everything she could ever want -- a loving family, friends, and the man of her dreams. But when several unforeseen events threaten to upend her world, a friend comes to the rescue, offering Kate respite to mend her broken heart in the ancient, magic paradise that is Hanalei, Kauai. On the beautiful beaches of Hawaii, she ends up finding more than she bargained for - new life, new love, and synchronicities sent from beyond.

Finally back to her spunky self after the loss of her husband, amateur sleuth Ginger Barnes confronts her most perplexing mystery yet—MEN. Men who mistreat their wives, men suspected of murder, and men who ask her out. Finalist, National Indie Excellence Award