It's finally spring! But here in Nova Scotia that could still mean snow, so make sure you have a few of the new series titles to tide you through.
Dark Chocolate Demise by
Jenn McKinlay is book number seven following
Sugar and Iced in the
Cupcake Bakery mysteries. Scottsdale, Arizona, may not
be the liveliest place on earth, but it's never been as dead as this.
Hundreds of fans have gathered together for the first annual Old Town
Zombie Walk, and Mel, Angie, and the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew are donning
their best undead attire to sell some horror-themed desserts to the
hungry hordes. But the fun turns to fright when Mel finds a real
dead body in a prop casket outside of the bakery's truck—and the corpse
looks alarmingly like a zombie of their own. Knowing that Joe, Angie's
brother and Mel's former flame, has been working on a dangerous mob
case, Mel worries that the murder is a hit gone wrong and that someone
near and dear was the real target. To keep any of her friends from
winding up six feet under, Mel will do whatever it takes to find a
killer—no matter how scary things get.

The twentieth title in the
Aunt Dimity mystery series,
Aunt Dimity and the Summer King by
Nancy Atherton is being published this month. It follows
Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well. There's trouble in Finch. Four recently sold cottages are standing
empty, and the locals fear that a developer plans to turn their cosy
village into an enclave of overpriced weekend homes. But for
once Lori Shepherd can't help. Her infant daughter, her father-in-law's
upcoming wedding, and the crushing prospect of her fortieth birthday
have left her feeling overwhelmed. Until, that is, she has a chance
encounter with an eccentric inventor named Arthur Hargreaves. In the
presence of Arthur, dubbed the Summer King by his equally eccentric
family, Lori forgets her troubles - and Finch's. But when Lori
discovers detailed maps of Finch in the Summer King's library, she
wonders if he could be too good to be true. Is Arthur secretly plotting
Finch's demise? With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help Lori mounts a
crusade to save her beloved village from the Summer King's scorching
greed.

Book number ten in the
Southern Sewing Circle mystery series,
Wedding Duress by
Elizabeth Lynn Casey follows
Taken In. Tori is ecstatic to become Mrs. Milo Wentworth in a few days, but she
has a lot to do before she sashays down the aisle. Favors need to be
sewn, vows need to be written—and a mystifying murder needs to be
solved. When Beatrice, a fellow member of the Sweet Briar Ladies
Society Sewing Circle, learns that her former nanny took a fatal fall
in her new employers' home, she suspects the death was not an accident.
Now Tori's spending her last days as a single woman untangling rumors
and stitching together motives to find a killer. But can she nab a
murderer and make it to the church on time?
Oh Say Can you Fudge by
Nancy Coco is the third book in the
Candy-Coated mystery series - following
To Fudge or not to Fudge. It's not Fourth of July on Mackinac Island without fireworks and fudge.
The Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop is supplying the treats--and
Allie has hired Rodney Rivers, the biggest name in aerial displays, to
create an unforgettable spectacle. Unfortunately, Allie finds him dead,
covered with screaming chicken fireworks, just before the entire
warehouse of pyrotechnics goes up in smoke. Is it arson or is it murder?
Allie and her bichonpoo, Mal, must sift through the suspects until the
killer is caught and the island can enjoy a star-spangled celebration.
Slated for Death by
Elizabeth J. Duncan is the sixth offering in the
Penny Brannigan Mystery series. It follows
Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By. When the body of well-liked and respectable Glenda Roberts is discovered
at the bottom of a former slate mine, now a busy tourist attraction,
pandemonium erupts in the North Wales town of Llanelen. Penny Brannigan
finds herself drawn into the investigation when jars of her house-brand
hand cream are found among counterfeit inventory Glenda and her sister
were selling. Police are convinced that the mine operator whose
asthmatic son suffered an almost-fatal attack due to the merchandise is
responsible for Glenda's death. But Penny's not so sure. A visit to
Glenda's mother only deepens her conviction that a hidden family secret
is the real reason for the murder.
Dawn Eastman is releasing the third title in the
Family Fortune Mystery series,
A Fright to the Death, following
Be Careful What you Witch For. After their flight to Mexico is cancelled, Clyde and her detective
boyfriend, Mac, end up snowed in with their families at a supposedly
haunted hotel. Clyde's tarot card reading mother, Rose, is making dire
predictions for the weekend, and self-proclaimed pet psychic Aunt Vi is
enchanted by the legend of the hotel's ghost—until the power goes out
and a body turns up. With a hotel full of stranded suspects,
Clyde will have to draw on all her skills—both the police ones she'd
rather forget and the psychic ones she'd rather ignore—to solve the
bone-chilling mystery before someone else gets iced.
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