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This series started in 2011 and takes place in New Orleans. It features pastry chef Rita Lucero. She leaves New Mexico and goes to New Orleans to get her husband Philippe to sign divorce papers..... in the first book in the series-- she finds him…

Mary Jane Clark writes the Wedding Cake Mystery Series (Piper Donovan) which started in 2011 and takes place in New Jersey. It features Piper Donovan, a struggling actress and professional Cake decorator in her family's bakery business.

Kristi Abbott writes the Popcorn Shop Mystery series which starts in March 2016 and is set in Ohio. It features Rebecca Anderson. After a failed marriage to a celebrity chef, she’s ready for her life to open up and expand. She has returned to her…

A. Gardner writes the Poppy Peters Mystery series which is started in 2015 and is set in Georgia. It features former ballet dancer Poppy Peters. After an injury derails Poppy Peters' ballet career, she gathers the courage to follow in her…

Leigh Selfman writes the Rosie Kale Mystery series which is set in California. It features baker Rosie Kale who solves crimes with her senior snoop helpers, Nana and Birdie.

Maymee Bell (aka Tonya Kappes) writes the Southern Cake Baker Mystery Series which started in November 2018 and is set in Kentucky. It features pastry chef, Sophia Cummings.

J A Whiting writes the Sweet Cove Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in Massachusetts. It features Angie Roseland who runs The Sweet Dreams Bake Shop in the seacoast town of Sweet Cove, Massachusetts. Angie is looking for a new…

Michael Lee West writes the Teeny Templeton Mystery series which started in 2012 and is set in South Carolina. It features out-of-work Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton. This series is full of quirky characters and southern charm.

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…

Darci Hannah writes the Very Cherry Mystery Series which started in 2018 and is set in Wisconsin. It features Whitney Bloom who runs the family orchard and inn business, the Cherry Orchard Inn. Whitney Bloom was living in Chicago and was fired…

Valerie Horowitz writes the The Village Cooks Mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in New Jersey. It features Bonnie Emerson, daughter of a former U.S. president who owns the Village Cooks cookbook/cookware shop.

Lilly York writes the Willow Crier Mystery Series which started in 2015 and is set in Oklahoma. It features Willow who moves south when she inherits her grandfather’s ice cream shop. From the slow southern dialect to the crazy drivers, Willow…