Guest Sleuth Spotlight: Greta Sinclair — The Great Nashville Bake Off Mishap
Meet Greta Sinclair — award-winning author of the Hattie and Moose Cozy Mystery series. A Nashville bake off, a collapsed judge, and furbabies with very strong opinions.
Series: A Hattie and Moose Cozy Mystery
The Book: Hattie Leiper never imagined her baking could earn a handshake from a famous TV judge — especially one that's followed by his sudden collapse.
During a tented garden bake off at a Belle Meade estate, Hattie and her bestie-slash-detective Bo Becket must navigate competitive bakers, daily mishaps, and sugary secrets. Was it a careless ingredient mix-up, or something more deliberate?
Between a retired nurse with suspicious medical knowledge, a seasoned pastry chef, and a tech-minded baker with a grudge, everyone becomes a suspect. And Hattie's furbabies — Moose the Chow Chow, Mini Pearl the feisty Yorkie, and Cecil the crime-magnet British Shorthair — are making their objections known at every turn.
🏆 2025 Global Book Awards Silver Medal Winner
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (110 reviews)
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Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (8 reviews)
“Hattie Leiper is one of those characters you root for from page one — and her furbabies have opinions about everything, which is exactly how it should be. Greta Sinclair won a 2025 Global Book Awards Silver Medal for good reason. If you love food, Southern charm, and a mystery that keeps you guessing, start here.”
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Guest Sleuth Spotlight: Susana Sage — Spiced to Death
Meet Susana Sage — author of the Texas Hill Country Cozy Mystery series. A needlepoint shop, a food festival murder, and a cat named Stitches who's on the case.
Series: A Texas Hill Country Cozy Mystery
The Book: When Tilly Martin trades city life for the small-town charm of Hillcrest, Texas, she never expects her dream of running a needlepoint shop to unravel into danger. But when a renowned chef is found dead just before the Hill Country Food Festival's opening dinner, it's clear someone has cooked up more than a recipe for success.
Rumors of secret ingredients, stolen recipes, and family rivalries simmer across the Hill Country. Every clue pulls Tilly deeper into the mystery — from feuding chefs to hidden legacies — and closer to a killer who won't hesitate to silence the truth.
Armed with a cryptic notebook, a mysterious spice mix, and her mischievous gray cat Stitches, Tilly must unravel a web of small-town secrets before the killer strikes again.
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“A needlepoint shop, a food festival, a murdered chef, and a cat named Stitches. Susana Sage had me at the spice blend. If you love small-town Texas charm with a side of mystery, this one’s for you.”
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Death in Denmark by Greta Sinclair
International food critic Darcy Finnegan expected comfort food, not a smuggling ring. Explore the canals of Denmark in this heart-stopping mystery.
MULTIPLE BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND THE 2025 GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS WINNER FOR A VERY STICKY MURDER.
Copenhagen in late winter promises candles, canals, and comfort food—not murder.
When international food critic Darcy Finnegan arrives to sample Denmark’s coziest cuisine and quietly plan her European elopement, she expects hygge, pastries, and good coffee. What she doesn’t expect is the murder of an elite Danish customs inspector—and her Schnoodle, Mozart, obsessively sniffing a suspicious shipment of gourmet coffee beans.
Ignoring the firm objections of her Interpol fiancé, Darcy follows the inspector’s final trail through roasteries, Michelin kitchens, and candlelit cafés. With help from her fearless photojournalist best friend, she uncovers a hidden world of high-end culinary smuggling, where rare delicacies are concealed inside luxury imports—and silence is deadly.
As suspects close in and a heart-stopping ride over the treetops of Tivoli Gardens nearly claims Darcy herself, she must expose a killer hiding in plain sight.
Because in Copenhagen, even comfort food can conceal lethal secrets.
“I am a firm believer in the power of ‘hygge’—that Danish sense of cozy comfort—but Greta Sinclair shows us that even the most candlelit cafe can hide a dark secret. Darcy Finnegan is a fantastic lead, and her Schnoodle, Mozart, is absolutely charming. This culinary mystery took me on a beautiful, heart-stopping tour of Copenhagen that made me want to book a flight and grab a magnifying glass simultaneously.”
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