White House Chef Mystery #3 January 2010 On Sale: January 5, 2010 Featuring: Olivia Paras 352 pages ISBN: 0425232034 EAN: 9780425232033 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Cozy, Mystery Amateur Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Eggsecutive Orders by Julie Hyzy The third installment in the exciting and award winning series featuring Olivia Paras, an assistant chef for the White House. Chef Olivia Paras has too many eggs in one basket-and is feeling like a basket-case… When NSA big shot Carl Minkus dies right after eating the dinner Olivia Paras’s staff had prepared, all forks point to them. Now the Secret Service is picking apart the kitchen-and scrutinizing the staff’s every move. The timing couldn’t be worse with the White House Lawn Easter Egg Roll to prep for without access to a kitchen. Olivia must find the real culprit-before she cracks under pressure. An entertaining, well-written mystery with fascinating characters and a satisfying conclusion. Previous Picks

Gourmet Girl Mystery #5 March 2010 On Sale: March 2, 2010 Featuring: Chloe Carter 256 pages ISBN: 0425232468 EAN: 9780425232460 Hardcover $23.95 Add to Wish List Mystery Amateur Sleuth, Mystery Culinary Buy at Amazon.com Cook The Books by Susan Conant, Jessica Conant-Park Sure to satisfy an appetite for crime…with tasty recipes. This Gourmet Girl has to take the heat-because she just can’t get away from the kitchen. Chloe Carter desperately needs a job, so she takes one assisting a cookbook writer. Unfortunately it stirs up painful memories of her ex-boyfriend Josh, who left her for Hawaii. While compiling a book of recipes from Boston’s top chefs, she comes in contact with one of Josh’s friends, Digger. Chloe manages to stay cool until later she finds Digger’s apartment charred-with Digger in it. Not believing that an expert chef would die from a grease fire, she sets about looking for Digger’s killer. But things get sticky when the tragedy brings Josh back to Boston-and back into Chloe’s life. Recipe for murder is never more delicious! Previous Picks

Catered Mystery #7 November 2010 On Sale: October 26, 2010 Featuring: Bernie Simmons; Libby Simmons 304 pages ISBN: 0758247389 EAN: 9780758247384 Paperback $22.00 Add to Wish List Mystery Cozy, Mystery Woman Sleuth, Mystery Culinary Buy at Amazon.com A Catered Thanksgiving by Isis Crawford A Thanksgiving dinner goes awry thanks to a killer who’s hiding a cornucopia of secrets Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons have handled plenty of catering challenges with grace and aplomb. But this Thanksgiving, they’re cooking a feast for felons… Whipping up Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings can be stressful for anyone, but that goes double for the Field family. They know that every family get-together has to be picture perfect, or they risk getting cut out of dominating patriarch Monty’s extremely lucrative will. That’s where A Little Taste of Heaven, Bernie and Libby’s catering company, comes in. Surely with their lumpless mashed potatoes and to-die-for gravy on the table, even the super-dysfunctional Fields can pretend to get along for one meal. But no one can dress up the disaster when the cover-worthy turkey goes boom right in Monty Field’s scowling face, sending him to that great dining room in the sky. With every member of the…

Cackleberry Club #2 December 2009 On Sale: December 1, 2009 336 pages ISBN: 0425231550 EAN: 9780425231555 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Amateur Sleuth, Mystery Cozy Buy at Amazon.com Heads Up! The next installment of the Cackleberry Club, BEDEVILED EGGS hits the shelves December 7 Eggs Benedict Arnold by Laura Childs Recipes included! When Cackleberry Clubber Suzanne delivers a pie to funeral director Ozzie Driesden, she discovers him not working at the embalming table but lying on the embalming table. She barely has time to recognize his corpse before she’s drugged with chloroform. With more suspects than breakfast specials, the Cackleberry Club scrambles to crack the case before one of their own ends up six feet under. A great mystery that moves along at a brisk pace with wonderful characterization. Previous Picks

Donut Shop Mystery April 2010 On Sale: March 30, 2010 Featuring: Suzanne Hart 320 pages ISBN: 0312946104 EAN: 9780312946104 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Woman Sleuth, Mystery Culinary, Mystery Cozy Buy at Amazon.com Glazed Murder by Jessica Beck Meet Suzanne Hart, owner and operator of Donut Hearts coffee shop in April Springs, North Carolina. After her divorce from Max, an out-of-work actor she’s dubbed “The Great Impersonator,” Suzanne decided to pursue her one true passion in life: donuts. So she cashed in her settlement and opened up shop in the heart of her beloved hometown. But when a dead body is dumped on her doorstep like a sack of flour, Suzanne’s cozy little shop becomes an all-out crime scene. Now, everyone in town is dropping by for glazed donuts and gruesome details. The retired sheriff warns her to be careful—and they’re all suspects. Soon Suzanne—who finds snooping as irresistible as donuts—is poking holes in everyone’s alibis… A thoroughly entertaining and neatly plotted cozy mystery with a wonderful cast of characters. Previous Picks

Knitting Mystery #8 June 2010 On Sale: June 1, 2010 Featuring: Kelly Flynn 304 pages ISBN: 042523438X EAN: 9780425234389 Hardcover $24.95 Add to Wish List Mystery Hobbies, Mystery Amateur Sleuth Buy at Amazon.com Skein Of The Crime by Maggie Sefton The newest installment in the series, with knitting patterns and recipes included! Fall has come to Fort Connor, Colorado, and the cool air has inspired the knitters at the House of Lambspun to start on their hats and mittens. It’s also brought an influx of students to the university town-and into the shop for knitting classes. Kelly Flynn is happy to teach them the tricks of the trade-until one of them is found dead on the river trail near Kelly’s house. Compelled to investigate, Kelly finds herself following a path that twists more easily than the yarn with which she knits. Knowing the killer could be close, Kelly must work fast to unravel the skein of this crime. The wool is flying as a mystery comes unraveled! Excerpt “How did your counselor friends find this guy?” Kelly whispered to Jayleen as they entered a corridor. “My friend, Jerry, is director of the program that helps bring in the vagrants who’re…

Cedar Key #2 November 2010 On Sale: October 26, 2010 Featuring: Monica Brooks; Adam 352 pages ISBN: 0758232055 EAN: 9780758232052 Trade Size $15.00 Add to Wish List Women’s Fiction Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Casting About by Terri DuLong In this beautifully crafted and uplifting novel, the author of the acclaimed Spinning Forward welcomes readers back to the lush Florida island of Cedar Key, where the vibrant shades of hibiscus and azaleas are the perfect backdrop to a colorful, quirky community. . . In the four years since Monica Brooks moved to Cedar Key, she’s found a home, a husband, and now a business to love. Taking over her mother’s bustling knitting shop is a welcome challenge, but Monica’s exciting plans are waylaid by unexpected news. Her husband’s ex-wife has been deemed an unfit mother, and custody of their eight-year-old daughter, Clarissa, is to be transferred to Adam. Going straight from honeymoon to motherhood—especially when she’s unsure she wants children—leaves the normally even-keeled Monica doubting herself at every turn. Yet in a place like Cedar Key, nobody goes it alone. With help from friends and relatives, Monica, Clarissa, and Adam begin to forge a close-knit family of their own—one that will…

Blossom Street May 2010 On Sale: May 1, 2010 Featuring: Lydia Hoffman 384 pages ISBN: 0778328805 EAN: 9780778328803 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber Lydia Hoffman owns the shop on Blossom Street. In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived—and so has Lydia. A lot of that is due to Brad Goetz. But when Brad’s ex-wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness. Three women join Lydia’s newest class. Elise Beaumont, retired and bitterly divorced, learns that her onetime husband is reentering her life. Bethanne Hamlin is facing the fallout from a much more recent divorce. And Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and overweight teenager, whose grandmother’s idea of helping her is to drag her to seniors’ swim sessions—and to the knitting class at A Good Yarn. Excerpt “Making a sock by hand creates a connection to history; we are offered a glimpse into the lives of knitters who made socks using the same skills and techniques we continue to use today.” —Nancy Bush, author of Folk Socks (1994), Folk Knitting in Estonia (1999) and Knitting on the Road, Socks…

Chicks with Sticks #3 February 2010 On Sale: February 2, 2010 Featuring: Zack “Hot Legs” Hoolihan; Grace Fisher ISBN: 0312946732 EAN: 9780312946739 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Knock Me for a Loop by Heidi Betts Who says yarn can’t be sexy? SHE’S CUTTING HIM LOOSE When it comes to relationships, talk show host Grace Fisher won’t stand for cheating—especially not from her fiancé, star hockey goalie Zack Hoolihan. Her weekly knitting group backs her up when she calls it off, but it doesn’t entirely ease the sting of betrayal. She won’t listen to Zack’s indignant explanations of innocence—she just wants to tie up loose ends and move on. Until he winds up injured, that is, and she finds herself playing nursemaid… NOW HE’S THROWN FOR A LOOP Zack doesn’t know how that woman got into his hotel room, but he does know losing Grace has put him so far off his game, he ended up with a busted knee and a broken heart. If things aren’t mended fast, he’ll miss the playoffs, miss his girl, and lose everything. But if Grace is willing to push him into physical therapy, maybe he can…

Going Back January 2010 On Sale: January 12, 2010 Featuring: Quinn Murphy; Maddie Johnson 256 pages ISBN: 0373716087 EAN: 9780373716081 Mass Market Paperback $5.50 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com An Unlikely Setup by Margaret Watson It all seemed so simple before Maddie Johnson landed back in Otter Tail. Sell her godfather’s pub, pay off her debt, return to Chicago and start over. Quinn Murphy, however, is not part of that plan. Maddie hasn’t seen Quinn since a certain humiliating night fifteen years ago. Now her former crush is running the bar she’s inherited, and he’s going to fight her for it. And he’s not above fighting dirty, apparently. Too bad she can’t afford to sell the bar to the lowest bidder—namely, Quinn—and be done with it. Because despite the pain he caused her, the man’s irresistibly attractive to her. Always has been. Always, always, will be. Excerpt Fate sure had a way of biting you in the butt. Of all the places she could have gone to lick her wounds and regroup, why did it have to be Otter Tail, Wisconsin? The town was the symbol of everything she’d once hated about her life. As a…