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A Food Critic's Review to Die For
Everyone's trying the food fair serrated knife, perfect for slicing, serving, and . . . murder?
Hanna Denton has a lot to prove after taking over The Upper Crust, her grandmother's California pie shop. And the Crystal Cove Food Fair is the perfect place to entice new customers. When local food critic Heath Barr serves up detestable reviews of Hanna's pies—not to mention his burning
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2011
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English
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No one can die from a pie . . . or can they? Hanna Denton has returned home to Crystal Cove, California, to take over the pie shop her Grannie Louise owned for thirty years. Grannie has now moved to the ritzy retirement community on the hill and Hanna is working her hardest to live up to Grannie's reputation for baking the best pies in the state. However, between rolling dough, slicing rhubarb, and trying to find the magic ingredients that made Grannie's...
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Pies before guys mystery volume 1
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English
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"Daisy Ellery's pies have a secret ingredient: the magical ability to avenge women done wrong by men. The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was an accident. Now, it's her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which she and her dog Zoe deliver to the men who've done dirty deeds to the town's women. But if she can't solve the one crime that's not of her own baking, she'll be out of the pie pan and into the oven. Parking...
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Pies before guys mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Daisy bakes a little murder into every pie she creates, and she and her dog, Zoe, deliver them to the town's worst cads. Now, Daisy's entered a televised, elimination-style competition and has a shot at $100k in prize money--but she still has a murder pie to deliver between filming. In a completely unexpected turn of events, she discovers that her intended victim is one of the competition judges, and he turns up dead before the pie even arrives....
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Chloe Zoe volume 5
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Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Chloe Zoe is excited to help Grammy Ella bake her famous pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving--until she mixes up the spices, ruining the pie and, she fears, the whole day.
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"Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumors swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet believes Ella knows something. But Ella is stubbornly silent. Something--or someone--has...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Old West ghost towns are as American as apple pie. So what better place to sponsor a pie-eating contest than the Bar X, a fake ghost town available for exclusive private events on the edge of Silicon Valley. Valentine Harris is providing the pies, hoping to boost business for her struggling Pie Town shop and become a regular supplier for the Bar X. But no sooner does she arrive in town than a stray bullet explodes the cherry pie in her hands. And...
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Kensington Books
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[2019]
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English
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"Nothing heats up Old Town quite like the annual Pie Festival, and this year is no exception, especially since Sophie's professional rival, Natasha Smith, is barred from participating. Sophie, meanwhile, has been asked to oversee the pie eating contest. But the drama really rolls out when celebrity judge, Patsy Lee Presley, host of television's most popular cooking show, bites the crust during the competition, and Sophie's friends are suspected of...
10) Ugly Pie
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Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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After baking a scrumptious Ugly Pie, made from ingredients donated by his neighbors, Ol' Bear invites everyone over for a slice. Includes pie recipe.
11) A pie to die for
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Crooked Lane Books
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2024.
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English
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"Este March runs the family-owned Lucky Pie Diner on Split Pine Island in Northern Michigan. The pies at Lucky Pie aren't just good, they're magical, with a family recipe that grants certain customers their greatest hopes and dreams when they eat the pie. The remote island is closed to outsiders over the winter months, but on the last day of the season, the unpopular new produce vendor, Jeff, turns up dead on his boat, and Split Pine Island's peace...
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Crooked Lane Books
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2018.
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English
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When Carrie Ann Cole bakes a lemon meringue pie to die for that actually kills someone, she must find out who the real killer is before her time at the Kensington Palace expires. The elegant Orangery at Kensington Palace is the perfect setting for the bridal shower of Carrie Ann Cole's best friend's sister. Personal chef to the royal family, Carrie Ann's pie theme is naturally winning. But a waiter later keels over dead into the lemon meringue pie...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Owning her own business seemed like pie in the sky to Valentine Harris when she moved to the coastal California town of San Nicholas, expecting to start a new life with her finance. Five months--and a broken engagement--later, at least her dream of opening a pie shop has become a reality. But when one of her regulars keels over at the counter while eating a quiche, Val feels like she's living a nightmare. After the police determine the customer was...
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Charmed Pie Shoppe mysteries volume 4
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Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Providing magical desserts to the residents of the enchanted town of Havenwood, Georgia, Ella Mae LeFaye finds everything she loves in danger when a serious of mysterious deaths are linked to her, forcing her to whip up a recipe for catching a killer determined to settle an ancient score.
15) Sweet as pie
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Good Southern women volume 1
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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''Evans Pemberton has always had a problem saying no. To her overbearing Mississippi Delta family, to her business mentor's push to expand her thriving pie shop and to her lifelong crush, Jake Champagne. But Jake chose her beauty queen cousin three years ago and ghosted on their close friendship. When he comes to her small town in Alabama with a new pro hockey franchise, Evie fears she'll lose her heart all over again. Of course, she'll forgive him...
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Charmed Pie Shoppe mysteries volume 3
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Her Charmed Pie Shoppe is open for business, but baker Ella Mae LeFaye is about to discover solving a murder is not as easy as pie?
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Charmed Pie Shoppe mysteries volume 2
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Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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When a wedding guest becomes seriously ill after eating one of her desserts, Ella Mae, whose baked goods are literally magical, must whip up some clues to prove that her pies didn't contain the killer ingredient.
18) Breach of crust
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Charmed Pie Shoppe mysteries volume 5
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Socialite Beatrice Burbank hires Ella Mae to teach the tasty tricks of her trade to the members of the Camellia Club, but when Bea's body is found floating in Lake Havenwood Ella Mae must find the killer.
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Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her pies aren't just delicious. They're having magical effects on the people who eat them--and the public is hungry for more. Discovering her hidden talent for enchantment, Ella Mae makes her own wish come true by opening...
20) Plum deadly
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Pie in the Sky mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Accused of cooking the books, Maggie Grady is forced to retreat from her New York financial career to Durham, North Carolina. Her aunt Clara greets her with open arms and a job at the family-owned business that has baked the best pies in the South for over forty years. Maggie is determined to return to banking, but her reputation seems permanently in the pits. That is, until her old boss, Lou, visits with news that he's found the real crook. Before...
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