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The Cookies & Kilts Mysteries

An amateur sleuth series set in the small Missouri town of Beaudin Trace, where 40-year-old Kate Dunbar, owner of 'Biscuits With a Brogue' pet food bakery, gets involved with mysteries...and is helped periodically by cats and dogs...and wacky townsfolk.

 

Shortbread and Dead - #1

When the winner of the town's winter scavenger hunt is found murdered, Kate investigates to save her bakery from blame; but who will save her from the killer?

A Trifling Murder - #2

Murder's no trifling event at the Robert Burns birthday dinner.  Pet bakery shop owner Kate Dunbar sorts through the mess with the help of a feisty Scottie dog.

A Drizzle of Trouble - #3

Two curious cats help pet bakery shop owner Kate Dunbar investigate the murder of the town's mayor.

Crumbs of Defeat - #4

Crumbs of defeat for the bake-off loser...in more ways than one.  Kate sorts through the murder mess with the help of a retired towboat captain and an exuberant King Charles Spaniel.

Book Clubbed to Death - #5
Coming Nov. 17, 2025!

The death of a local author deletes her along with the chance for a sequel to her book.  Was the book club critique really that brutal?



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The Peak District Mysteries...with the Derbyshire  C.I.D. Team

Detective Sergeant Brenna Taylor and Detective Chief Inspector Geoffrey Graham lead the
Derbyshire Constabulary's Murder Team investigations when British customs turn deadly.

 

A Staged Murder- #1

Nov 5 - Bonfire Night. A staged concert. A murderer in the audience, watching as the body is discovered.

A Recipe For Murder - #2

The Derbyshire CID investigate a murder in a candlelit church on December 6, St. Nicholas Day. “Very atmospheric—the first scene was stunning!” – Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland Island mysteries and the Vera Stanhope mysteries.

In A Wintry Wood - #3

A family feud during a Twelfth Night party. A series of blackmail letters. A body in an icy pond. And a member of the investigating CID Team suspected of murder.

A Touch of Murder - #4

Det Sgt Brenna Taylor and DCI Geoffrey Graham lead the Derbyshire CID team on an investigation of a Valentine’s Day murder in a bell tower in this British customs mystery.

The Stone Hex - #5

An old hex, a death, and a British custom of turning a boulder.  Misfortune strikes and threatens police and villagers alike.

Searching Shadows - #6

SEARCHING SHADOWS -- An ancient English custom of Watching the Church Porch… A ghost sighting… A death… Misfortune strikes and threatens to repeat itself. 

An Old Remedy - #7

A British custom for May Day, and death on the moor -- which comes tied up in a not-so-neat bundle for the Derbyshire CID Team.

Shrouded In Yew - #8

One dark March evening Vera Howarth vanishes from her village, and her disappearance transmutes into a local ghost story. Is it her body found in the wood?

Ancestral Whispers - #9

Does a 17th century poem hold a clue to a dancer’s murder?

Fire Trap - #10

The remnants of a deadly fire reveal a body… Will Brenna’s husband become the second victim in the fire trap?

Cider, Swords and Straw

A Cookbook Celebrating British Customs

Companion book to The Peak District Mystery series.  More than 300 recipes (in American measurements), customs featured in the novels explained, synopsis of each Peak District novel.

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