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Cooking up a Good Read

Who doesn’t love a good mystery, complete with recipes? Even someone like me who doesn’t cook can enjoy these delicious mysteries - and possibly the recipes as well. #IndyPLAdults

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  • Faith Fairchild is the protagonist in a series of cozy mystery novels by Katherine Hall Page. Faith is a caterer and minister’s wife who has left New York City for the village of Aleford, Massachusetts. But when murder is committed, she finds…
    Book, 1999New York : Avon Books, [1999] — MYS PAG
  • The Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries take place in a small Colorado town outside of Denver called Aspen Meadows. Goldy is a caterer and divorced mother who, along with her son Arch and friend Marla, end up solving crimes. There are 17 books in this…
    Book, 2013New York : William Morrow, [2013] — MYS DAV
  • Middlebury, Indiana’s Amish Artisan Village is the last place anyone would expect to find murder, so can Amber and her new employee Hannah find the killers before they strike again? There are three books in the Amish Village Mysteries series. The…
    Book, 2014Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2014] — MYS CHA
  • Daisy Swanson is the owner of a shop in Willow Creek, a small town in Amish country near Lancaster, PA. Daisy, a widow, has two teenage daughters. A murder right in the middle of Daisy’s Tea Garden has the small-town police scrambling to find the…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2018. — MYS SMI
  • Julia Snowden returns to her hometown of Busman’s Harbor, Maine to rescue her family’s struggling clambake business, but instead finds herself joining the search for a killer. There are 10 books in the . Maine Clambake Mysteries series so far, plus…
    Book, 2013New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2013. — MYS ROS
  • Hannah Swenson runs The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden, Minnesota's most popular bakery. When she’s not baking, Hannah is an amateur sleuth who helps solve murders. There are 28 books in this series so far, with the 29th, Pink Lemonade Cake Murder, due out…
    Book, 2008New York : Kensington Books, 2008. — MYS FLU
  • Poppy Markham, a former sous chef in Austin, Texas, left the family business to become a health inspector but unexpectedly finds herself helping solve three murders. There are three books in this series, but alas, the last one, Out of the Frying…
    Unknown, 2013Woodbury, Minnesota : Midnight Ink, 2013. — MYS ALL
  • Lily Roberts is the owner and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a traditional English tearoom in Cape Cod. Her grandmother Rose runs a Victorian B & B next door. Murders abound and Lily follows the clues to figure out whodunit. There are three…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Kensington Books, 2020. — MYS DEL
  • Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are caterers At A Little Taste of Heaven in New York. The Mysteries with Recipes series all happen at a celebration, such as A Catered Wedding, A Catered Christmas, A Catered Halloween, A Catered Valentine’s, A…
    Unknown, 2003New York : Kensington, [2003] — MYS CRA