Recipes
Everyone loves recipes, and they’re a staple of the culinary cozy. Whether you’re looking for one to make, or simply dreaming of eating each treat, they add a pinch of fun at the end of each story.
The Accidental Alchemist Mysteries (Gigi Pandian) Unpacking her belongings in her new fixer-upper house, alchemist Zoe Faust can’t help but notice she’s picked up a stowaway. Dorian Robert-Houdin is a living, breathing gargoyle―not to mention a master of French cuisine―and he needs Zoe’s expertise to unlock the secrets of a centuries-old text.
The Accidental Detectives (Tricia Simpson)
The Alana O’Neill Mysteries (Amy Alessio)
The Baker Street Mysteries (CeeCee James) Love mysteries with humor, good friends, and fun clues? Add in free recipes and you have the Baker Street Mysteries.
The Beacon Bakeshop Mysteries (Darci Hannah) Lindsey Bakewell left big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan to pursue her passion as a pastry baker in a place that always made her happy.
The Bluebell Cafe Mysteries (Judith Jackson)
The Borrowed Pages Mysteries (Maggie Benton) Helen Bennett has never been much of a risk-taker. But when life pushes her to make some big changes, she finds her way to Oliver’s Crossroads, a quaint town high in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.
The Bought-the-Farm Mysteries (Ellen Riggs)
The Cape Bay Cafe Mysteries (Harper Lin)
The Capers of Cobalt Bay (Trinity Colt)
The Carly Keene Mysteries (Ruby Blaylock)
The Cast Iron Cooking Mysteries (Jessica Beck) When a customer is murdered on the front porch of the Cast Iron Store and Grill with one of their favorite skillets, fraternal twins Pat and Annie must solve the crime, or they just might be next items on the killer’s to-do list.
The Cat Who Cookbooks (Julie Murphy) The Cat Who Cookbooks have recipes inspired by The Cat Who… series.
The Catering Hall Mysteries (Maria DiRico) After her philandering husband’s boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she’s got a whole new life—including some amateur sleuthing.
The Cedar Bay Mysteries (Dianne Harman)
The Charlotte Denver Mysteries (Sherri Bryan) St Eves is a town with real community spirit. It’s a town where residents leave their doors open all day so that neighbours can pop in for a cup of tea and a chat. But then a stranger is murdered and everything changes.
The Coffeehouse Mysteries (Cleo Coyle) Clare Cosi is serving up steaming hot caffeine one cup at a time. With a sprawling rent-free apartment directly above the coffeehouse, her cat Java by her side, and plenty of redecorating ideas, Clare is thrilled to return to work.
The Comfort Food Mysteries (Christine Wenger)
The Cookbook Nook Mysteries (Daryl Wood Gerber) Jenna Hart helps her aunt, Vera, open a culinary bookshop and café called The Cookbook Nook.
The Cooked to Death Mysteries (Multiple Authors) Fifteen mystery writers have pooled their literary powers and culinary acumen to craft a five-course meal full of surprises both deadly and delicious, and each story is followed by an easy-to-make recipe that plays some crucial part in its preceding tale.
The Cooking Class Mysteries (Miranda Bliss)
The Cook-Off Mysteries (Devon Delaney) After a short-lived marriage, Sherry Frazzelle is living single life to the fullest in her little Connecticut town, accompanied by her Jack Russell terrier, Chutney. Her new passion is competitive cooking—but it turns out that murder is the surprise ingredient.
The Corinna Chapman Mysteries (Kerry Greenwood) Corinna Chapman, high profile accountant and banker, walked out on the money market and her dismissive and unpleasant husband James, threw aside her briefcase, and doffed her kitten heels forever. Now she is a baker with her own business, Earthly Delights.
The Cornish Village Mysteries (Clara Penrose)
The Corsario Cove Mysteries (Anna Celeste Burke)
The Costume Shop Mysteries (Diane Vallere)
The Cottonwood Springs Mysteries (Dianne Harman)
The Country Cottage Mysteries (Addison Moore) Bizzy Baker runs the Country Cottage Inn, has the ability to pry into the darkest recesses of both the human and animal mind, and has just stumbled upon a body. Written by Addison Moore and her partner in cozy crime, Bellamy Bloom.
The Courtside Cafe Mysteries (Myrtle Morse)
The Cozy Café Mysteries (C. A. Phipps)
The Cozy Chicks Kitchen (Multiple Authors)
The Cozy Cookbooks (Dianne Harman) A collection of recipes which appeared in Dianne Harman’s various book series.
The Crochet Mysteries (Betty Hechtman) For Molly Pink, the weekly crochet group at Shedd & Royal Books and More was just another event to manage.
The Crystal Café Mysteries (Jessica Lancaster)
The Cupcake Catering Mysteries (Kim Davis)
The Dana Sweet Mysteries (Ann S. Marie) Dana Sweet plans to turn the struggling cupcake café she inherited from her grandmother into a success. Dana takes a chance and re-opens the café under a new name, Cozy Cupcakes Café, where frosted cupcakes are served.
The Deep Fried Mysteries (Linda Reilly) Talia Marby has returned to her hometown and is happy to help her dear friend Bea Lambert by working at Lambert’s Fish & Chips, a cornerstone of a charming shopping plaza designed to resemble an old English village. But not all the shop owners are charming.
The Dive Shack Mysteries (Donna Amis Davis)
The Divine Mysteries (Hope Callaghan) Businesswoman Jo Pepperdine has found the perfect site for not only a home for women to get back on their feet after being released from prison, but also her Second Chance Mercantile and Divine Baked Goods Shop.
The Domestic Diva Mysteries (Krista Davis)
The Donut Truck Mysteries (Cindy Bell) Joyce and Brenda are enjoying running their newly opened donut truck, ‘Donuts on the Move’. Things are running along smoothly, until business comes to a grinding halt when the owner of the hot dog truck is found murdered.
The Down South Café Mysteries (Gayle Leeson)
The Emma Wild Mysteries (Harper Lin)
The Farmer’s Daughter Mysteries (Peg Cochran)
The Ferrara Family Mysteries (J. D. Griffo)
The Five-Ingredient Mysteries (Maya Corrigan) Val Deniston has traded in the chaos of New York City for a quieter life near the Chesapeake Bay. Living with her curmudgeonly grandfather is hardly glamorous, but she enjoys working at the Cool Down Café at the local fitness club, and she finally has time to work on her long-planned cookbook.
The Food Blogger Mysteries (Debra Sennefelder)
The Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries (Leslie Budewitz) The town of Jewel Bay, Montana—known as a Food Lovers’ Village—is obsessed with homegrown and homemade Montana fare. So when Erin Murphy takes over her family’s century-old general store, she turns it into a boutique market filled with local delicacies.
The Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries (Karen Musser Nortman)
The Frugal Lissa Mysteries (Ritter Ames)
The Fudge Shop Mysteries (Christine DeSmet) New candy store owner Ava Oosterling specializes in making heavenly homemade fudge and fresh starts. She hopes using local fresh dairy and her own flavorful imagination to cook up one-of-a-kind fudge will also create a brand-new start for her.
The Georgia Peach Mysteries (Susan Furlong Bolliger)
The Georgie Shaw Mysteries (Anna Celeste Burke)
The Gluten Free Bakery Mysteries (Lorraine Cooke)
The Gourmet De-Lite Mysteries (Peg Cochran) Preparing calorie-conscious meals for the dieters of Woodstone, Connecticut, Gigi Fitzgerald knows a cheater when she sees one. And when murder is on the menu, she’s ready to get the skinny on whodunit…
The Gourmet Girl Mysteries (Jessica Conant-Park)
The Great Witches Baking Show (Nancy Warren) Poppy Wilkinson is thrilled to be chosen as a contestant on The Great British Baking Contest. As an American with English roots, winning the title of Britain’s Best Baker would open doors she’s dreamed of.
The Greek to Me Mysteries (Susannah Hardy)
The Gypsy Sleuths Mysteries (Emma Blackcliff)
The Hannah Swensen Mysteries (Joanne Fluke) Take one amateur sleuth. Mix in some eccentric Minnesota locals. Add a generous dollop of crackling suspense, and you’ve got the recipe for this mystery series featuring Hannah Swensen, the red-haired, cookie-baking heroine whose gingersnaps are almost as tart as her comments and whose penchant for solving crime is definitely stirring things up.
The Hayley Powell Food and Cocktail Mysteries (Lee Hollis)
The Henny Penny Farmette Mysteries (Meera Lester) Ex-cop Abigail Mackenzie has started a second career–as a farmer. Raising chickens, keeping bees, and growing heirloom vegetables on her farmette in the Bay Area, Abby has a peaceful life. Yet when she finds a dead body, her investigative instincts kick in.
The Home Crafting Mysteries (Cricket McRae) Sophie Mae Reynolds, a thirty-something widow who makes and sells beauty products, finds the deceased neighborhood handyman in her workroom. The police call it a suicide, but why would a man with lottery cash and a loving fiancée kill himself?
The Hope Callaghan Collection (Hope Callaghan)
The Hope Callaghan Cookbooks (Hope Callaghan) This fun cookbook is a collection of delectable recipes from Hope Callaghan’s mystery books. You’ll discover the cozy mysteries and characters that inspired the recipes.
The Hope Street Church Mysteries (Ellery Adams) Cooper Lee, hoping for a fresh start, joins the Bible study group at Hope Street Church. The last thing she expects while studying the Bible is a lesson in murder.
The Italian Chef Mysteries (Catherine Bruns) Local Italian chef Tessa Esposito is struggling to get back on her feet following her husband’s fatal accident. And when the police knock on Tessa’s door, things just get worse. They’ve discovered Dylan’s death wasn’t an accident after all, and they need Tessa to start filling in the blanks. Who would want her beloved husband dead, and why?
The Jams, Jellies and Murder Mysteries (Donna Walo Clancy) Tabitha Moon, the owner of a local shop, Jellies, Jams, and Weddings, is a bit bewildered to find herself smack dab in the middle of a real life mystery when Richard Wells disappears, and she vows to do her best to help solve it.
The Kari Jacobs Lawyer Sleuth Mysteries (Harper Harris)
The Kissing Bridge Mysteries (Linda West)
The Kitchen Witch Mysteries (Lynn Cahoon)
The Lack of Luxury Mysteries (Hope Callaghan) After a local interior designer is found murdered, city slicker turned farm girl, Liz Applegate-Rasmussen, becomes the prime suspect. It’s a good thing her younger sister, Gloria Kennedy, and friends, the “Garden Girls” know a thing or two about solving crimes.
The Lexy Baker Mysteries (Leighann Dobbs)
The Library Cat Magical Mysteries (Skye Sullivan)
The Library Lover’s Mysteries (Jenn McKinlay) Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey’s friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children’s book, but Beth’s boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way.
The Lickety Splits Mysteries (Cynthia Baxter) After leaving her high-powered Manhattan life behind, Kate McKay is indulging her dream of opening an ice cream shop in her Upstate New York hometown of Wolfert’s Roost.
The Lily Thistle Mysteries (Maggie West)
The Little Leaf Creek Mysteries (Cindy Bell)
The Macaron Patisserie Mysteries (Cindy Bell)
The Mack’s Bar Mysteries (Allyson K. Abbott) Mackenzie “Mack” Dalton is a Milwaukee bar owner with a nose for trouble—literally. A neurological glitch has left her with extra perceptive senses. So when she stumbles upon a dead body in the alley behind the bar, she can tell right away there’s something fishy in the air.
The Maddie Mills Mysteries (Cindy Bell)
The Made in Savannah Mysteries (Hope Callaghan) After the mysterious death of her mafia “made man” husband, Carlita Garlucci makes a shocking discovery. Carlita and her daughter try to escape their NY mob ties and make a fresh start in Savannah, Georgia. They soon realize you can run but can’t hide from your past.
The Mahalia Watkins Mysteries (A. L. Herbert) Welcome to Mahalia “Halia” Watkins’s Sweet Tea, the finest soul food restaurant in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
The Mail Carrier Mysteries (Tonya Kappes) Everyone in Sugar Creek Gap has tried to fix up widow and beloved mail carrier, Bernadette Davis on several dates. What they don’t know is how Bernadette’s life is filled with everyone’s hidden secrets and obsessions. After all, she does deliver their mail and hears all the dirty laundry.
The Maine Clambake Mysteries (Barbara Ross) Summer has come to Busman’s Harbor, Maine, and tourists are lining up for a taste of authentic New England seafood, courtesy of the Snowden Family Clambake Company. But there’s something sinister on the boil this season.
The Maple Lane Mysteries (C. A. Phipps)
The Meera Patel Mysteries (Leena Clover)
The Memphis BBQ Mysteries (Riley Adams) Named in honor of Lulu Taylor’s great aunt, Aunt Pat’s family-run Memphis restaurant is known for its ribs and spicy cornbread. But now the Taylor family will be known for murder.
The Merry Muffin Mysteries (Victoria Hamilton)
The Midwest Mysteries (Dianne Harman)
The Molly Brewster Mysteries (Pam Moll) Molly Brewster’s new café bookshop is the go-to spot for strong coffee, flaky pastries, and juicy gossip. But everything changes when the tide washes a dead body up on shore… practically on the shop’s doorstep.
The Mysteries With Recipes (Isis Crawford) Bernadette Simmons wasn’t sure what to expect when she moved back in with her family in New York. And her sister Libby had no idea what she was in for when she hired Bernie to work for her catering business. But in between cutting up canapés and dishing up desserts, the two find themselves in the midst of a mystery they can sink their teeth into.
The Mystery Writers’ Cookbook Mysteries (Multiple Authors) Some of today’s most exciting mystery writers invite you to take a behind the scenes peek into their characters’ kitchens where the secret ingredients for their killer recipes are all spelled out.
The North End Mysteries (Priscilla Baker)
The Nuts About Nuts Mysteries (Cindy Bell) Kerri Gale is getting ready for the grand opening of her gift and nut shop, Nuts about Nuts, in the small picturesque town of Cascade Grove. She is new to the area and is enjoying setting up home with her Yorkshire Terrier, Cashew, and spending time with her new friend, Natalie.
The Olive or Twist Mysteries (Archer Hay)
The Orchard Mysteries (Sheila Connolly)
The Oregon Honeycomb Mysteries (Nancy Coco)
The Orvilly Mysteries (Rebecca Dunsmuir)
The Oxford Tearoom Mysteries (H. Y. Hanna)
The Pancake House Mysteries (Sarah Fox) When Marley McKinney’s aging cousin, Jimmy, is hospitalized with pneumonia, she agrees to help run his pancake house while he recovers.
The Pecan Bayou Mysteries (Teresa Trent)
The Perveen Mistry Mysteries (Sujata Massey) Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women’s legal rights especially important to her.
The Popcorn Shop Mysteries (Kristi Abbott) Opening a gourmet popcorn shop was never on Rebecca Anderson’s bucket list. She has returned to her hometown of Grand Lake, Ohio, with her popcorn-loving poodle Sprocket to start a new business.
The Rita Calabrese Mysteries (Maureen Klovers) For most of her life, Rita has doted on her lovable but exasperating “famiglia.” She’s always fortifying her down-on-their-luck neighbors with deliveries of home-grown vegetables and ravioli alla zucca, sneaking cannoli into her husband’s lunch, and meddling in the lives of her three grown children.
The Ruby Bay Mysteries (Samantha Silver) When World Champion skeleton athlete Miki King fails a doping test after taking the wrong flu medication, she’s exiled to Australia, to run her aunt’s cafe in a small beachside resort town until all the media attention blows over back home.
The Sarah Blair Mysteries (Debra H. Goldstein) For culinary challenged Sarah Blair, there’s only one thing scarier than cooking from scratch—murder! With nothing much to show for the last decade but her feisty Siamese cat, Sarah steps in to solve a murder, and needs to figure out the right recipe to crack the case before time runs out.
The Sea Mysteries (Crystal Winters)
The Seagrass Sweets Mysteries (Sandi Scott)
The Seaside Café Mysteries (Bree Baker) Life hasn’t been so sweet for Everly Swan over the past couple of years, but now she’s back in her seaside hometown of Charm, North Carolina. The proud new owner of Sun, Sand, and Tea—a café right on the beach—Everly thinks that things are finally starting to look up.
The Seasoned Southern Sleuths (Kelsey Browning)
The Seaview Cottages Mysteries (Anna Celeste Burke)
The Secret Staircase Mysteries (Gigi Pandian) Tempest Raj heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather’s Indian home-cooked meals. And every day brings her closer to working for her father’s company.
The Shannon Porter Mysteries (Haley Harper)
The Sister Witches of Raven Falls Mysteries (Nyx Halliwell)
The Slow Cooker Mysteries (Tim Myers)
The Soul Food Sleuths Mysteries (LaVon Stennis Williams) When four friends enjoy books and cooking, they spice things up with their natural affinity for solving murders.
The Soup Lover’s Mysteries (Connie Archer)
The Southern Cake Baker Mysteries (Maymee Bell)
The Southern Pasta Shop Mysteries (Jennifer L. Hart) Andy Buckland has always dreamed of being a chef. But after a disastrous start, she finds herself in her family’s southern pasta shop. When she discovers a dead body at a party, Andy is determined to prove she has what it takes to not only cook the best dish in town but also catch a killer.
The Southern Psychic Sisters Mysteries (A. Gardner) Psychic Ember Greene must return home to her family’s bakery to track down her missing sister – and stop a magical serial killer!
The Starling and Swift Mysteries (Mary Jane Hathaway) Kitty Swift travels around the sunny Yucatan peninsula assisting luxury cruise ship groups as an interpreter for the deaf. She’s perfectly content to spend her days with her service dog, Chica, and a motley crew of wealthy vacationers.
The Stoneybrook Mysteries (Eryn Scott)
The Strawberry Top Mysteries (C. C. Dragon) Stacey “Strawberry Top” Fields is home again in small town Willowbrook, TN. But when someone steals Grammy’s precious family recipe book, Stacey must track it down or never hear the end of it.
The Sugar & Spice Mysteries (Mary Lee Ashford) When Rosetta Sugarbaker Calloway-aka “Sugar” to friends-has an opportunity to launch a community cookbook business with blue-ribbon baker Dixie Spicer in peaceful St. Ignatius, Iowa, she jumps at the chance.
The Supper Club Mysteries (Rosemary Stevens)
The Sweet Cove Mysteries (J. A. Whiting) Angie Roseland runs The Sweet Dreams Bake Shop in the seacoast town of Sweet Cove, Massachusetts. The building’s new owners are not renewing the bake shop’s lease and Angie is running out of time to find a new location.
The Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mysteries (J. J. Cook)
The Sweetwater Springs Southern Mysteries (S. C. Merritt) When Glory Harper stumbles over a body in the graveyard during a church picnic, she finds herself at the top of the suspect list. Which isn’t surprising since the murder weapon is engraved with her initials.
The Tabitha Clive Mysteries (Sharon Michaels) When the citizens of her hometown of Kornville, Nebraska, are shocked by a murder, amateur sleuth and part time reporter Tabitha Clive takes it upon herself to investigate.
The Taste of Texas Mysteries (Rebecca Adler)
The Tea and Tarot Mysteries (Kirsten Weiss)
The Three Scoops Ice Cream Shop Mysteries (Lisbeth Reade) When Maddy moves to Creekside Hills and opens the Three Scoops Ice Cream Parlor and Bakery, she’s hoping to get her life back on track.
The Tomes & Tea Mysteries (Karen Rose Smith) Jazzi Swanson has opened her own book and tea shop, providing a variety of literature and flavored beverages for a rural New York community.
The Victoria Square Mysteries (Lorraine Bartlett) The last thing Katie Bonner wanted was to become the manager of Artisans Alley. But when her business partner, is found bludgeoned to death, she has no other choice. Written by Lorraine Bartlett with Laurie Cass and Gayle Leeson.
The Victoria Square Mysteries (Laurie Cass) The last thing Katie Bonner wanted was to become the manager of Artisans Alley. But when her business partner is found bludgeoned to death, she has no other choice. Written by Lorraine Bartlett with Laurie Cass and Gayle Leeson.
The Victoria Square Mysteries (Gayle Leeson) The last thing Katie Bonner wanted was to become the manager of Artisans Alley. But when her business partner is found bludgeoned to death, she has no other choice. Written by Lorraine Bartlett with Laurie Cass and Gayle Leeson.
The Whipped and Sipped Mysteries (G. P. Gottlieb)
The Willa Friday Food & Wine Mysteries (Jamie Lee Scott)
The Wine & Dine Mysteries (Gemma Halliday) The Oak Valley Vineyard has been in Emmy Oak’s family for generations, and Emmy moves home to try to save her legacy with her modern culinary know-how.
The Witches of Broomfield Bay Mysteries (Meg Muldoon)
The Yarn Retreat Mysteries (Betty Hechtman) Dessert chef Casey Feldstein doesn’t know a knitting needle from a crochet hook. But after her aunt dies unexpectedly, leaving Casey to run her yarn retreat business, Casey finds herself rising to the occasion.