Sugar & Spice Mysteries

At Sugar & Spice Community Cookbooks, business is flatter than a fritter and so Sugar and Spice are thrilled when the local Founders Club hires them to assemble a collection of old-time recipes for the town's upcoming bicentennial celebration. It's Recipe Wars in small town St. Ignatius and the town's rival bed & breakfast owners, one of them Spice's aunt, end up in a food fight over who has the best scones. The situation heats up and when things turn deadly, Sugar and Spice have to cook-up a scheme to find the killer before the town council votes to scrap their cookbook deal."When you add to the likeable characters a fine small town setting, an interesting cozy mystery plot, and loads of yummy food, you have a recipe for success!"- RoloPoloBookBlog

Former magazine editor "Sugar" Calloway's life has taken a delicious twist since she launched a community cookbook publishing business with blue-ribbon baker Dixie Spicer. Now these amateur sleuths must solve a small-town murder-without getting burned . ..Sugar and Spice Cookbooks' newest project is a fundraiser organized by the St. Ignatius Crack of Dawn Breakfast Club, famous for their all-you-can-eat biscuits and gravy events. But when a group member is found dead, Sugar and Spice's priorities change from raising dough to figuring out who put murder on the menu.The return of former badboy Nick Marchant has stirred the town's gossips too. Add a few grudges and some old-fashioned greed over a land deal into the mix, and it's a recipe for mayhem. And when someone serves up a second helping of murder, Sugar and Spice need to sift the guilty from the blameless, or their next breakfast may be their last . . .

"Ms. Ashford was so many steps ahead of me in QUICHE OF DEATH that I didn't think I'd ever figure it out. And, I didn't. This author is brilliant at leading you into one direction while she's finding two or three more other wrong turns to send you down. Seriously, bring your GPS!" -Lisa K's Book ReviewsAt Sugar & Spice Community Cookbooks, the friends and business partners have secured a tasty new commission: producing a cookbook for the Arbor family. The Arbors have made their fortune in quiches, and Sugar and Spice have been invited to a weekend gathering where all the siblings, along with crusty matriarch Marta, will be in attendance. But it's soon clear that this trip will come with a hefty slice of drama.Theo, the only grandson, arrives with his flaky fiancée, Collette, who quickly stirs up trouble . . . and is found dead the next day. As the investigation unfolds, secrets-and recipes-are shared, and Sugar and Spice realize just how messy and murderous the situation may be. As another family member falls ill, can they solve the case without getting egg on their faces . . .and a target on their backs?