Cindy Bell

Suzie and Mary love running Dune House, the majestic B&B on the beach, with their lovable yellow Labrador, Pilot, by their side. With Thanksgiving just around the corner they are excited to be hosting a group of guests from a retirement village for a few days. Everything is organized, their rooms are ready and the caterers have been booked for a special dinner. They are expecting a nice, relaxing stay for their guests. But from the moment the group get off the bus they’re at loggerheads.

Then things go from bad to worse when a guest kicks the bucket at the dinner table. When it is found she was murdered, Suzie and Mary are determined to help find the culprit so the murderer can be caught and the reputation of Dune House isn’t permanently tarnished. With a long list of suspects and some baffling clues, finding the murderer is not proving to be an easy task. Their investigations lead them straight toward danger.

It is a race against time to catch the killer before Thanksgiving!

Wendy’s new wedding planning business is starting to take off. She is excited to be planning the wedding for her good friend, Laura Algonquin. The wedding venue is at a beautiful restaurant, El Cielo, and everything is coming together perfectly.

But when Wendy stumbles across a dead body at El Cielo the wedding plans are thrown into chaos.

Will Wendy and Brian discover the truth before Laura’s wedding is ruined?

Joyce and Brenda are enjoying running their newly opened donut truck, ‘Donuts on the Move’. That is until business comes to a grinding halt when the owner of the hot dog truck is found murdered. It is a race against the clock to find the killer before Joyce and Brenda become the next victims.

Thing go from bad to worse when the banquet hall is flooded and a guest is found murdered. When it looks like someone who works at the inn is being framed for the murder, Vicky and Aunt Ida are on a mission to find the real murderer. But their investigation takes them down a path they do not want to travel.

Ally and Charlotte Sweet are catering dessert for a cocktail party hosted by the Mayor and Deputy Mayor. But when someone dies at the party everything is turned on its head. When foul play is discovered and it is suspected that the tarts might be to blame Ally and Charlotte, with the help of Ally’s cat, Peaches, and Charlotte’s pot-bellied pig, Arnold, do everything they can to find out who the murderer is. Their investigations antagonize the wrong people and not only jeopardize the future of the shop, but their safety as well.

When a tea leaf reader, Rose, is performing readings at Sage Gardens, Samantha is too curious to resist and arranges a reading for her and her three reluctant friends. But it is not smooth sailing when a reading goes horribly wrong.

Then things go from bad to worse when someone is murdered. The ‘Sage Gardens Sleuths’ cannot resist a good mystery and they decide to see if they can put together the pieces of the puzzle and find the murderer. But their investigations lead them down a path they didn’t expect and they land up in hot water.

Did Rose predict the murder? Did something that Rose saw in the tea leaves cause this disaster? Or was it all an elaborate ruse that ended in murder?

Nikki Green loves animals, and she wants to spend her days with them and help as many as possible. Her dream is to have a large piece of land with an animal rescue shelter, training and boarding facilities. But until she has enough money, she is loving her job as a pet sitter and dog walker, and volunteering at the local animal shelter. When her friend, Sonia Whitter, sees an opportunity that might lead to Nikki’s dreams coming to fruition sooner than anticipated, Nikki goes to check it out.

However, their plans are put on hold when they come across a dead body. Nikki and Sonia decide to help move the investigation along, with their furry friends by their side. But they land up chasing their tails when it turns out that the victim has more enemies than friends.

The sleuths head straight towards danger. Will they find they have been barking up the wrong tree the whole time?

Cassie Alberta loves her new life in Little Leaf Creek. Living next door to two cheeky goats and an energetic dog means she is kept on her toes and there is never a dull moment. She has the fresh start she wanted after her husband’s sudden death and is looking forward to spending the day celebrating her birthday. But when someone from her former life turns up in Little Leaf Creek and there is a murder, Cassie finds that there is no way of escaping the past.

Cassie partners with her tenacious ex-cop next-door neighbor Tessa to solve the mysteries. Why did someone from Cassie’s old life land up in Little Leaf Creek? Who committed the murder? Cassie has to reveal secrets from her past in order to get to the truth and make sure that her boyfriend Sebastian doesn’t land up behind bars.

Will the murder be solved so that Cassie can finally start coming to terms with what she’s been trying to leave behind?

Recipe included: Triple Chocolate Cake

Maddie Mills never planned on starting over. After her no-good husband ends up behind bars the middle-aged divorcée along with her two adorable pups, reluctantly moves back to her late parents' oceanfront house. But her appreciation for her new view is blown out of the water when she spies a dead body in the bay.

Though the victim was the unpopular town busybody, Maddie can’t bring herself to live in a community with a murderer on the loose. So, with her loyal pooches by her side she does a little sleuthing. Sorting through the clues involves spending time with the hunky police chief, rediscovering her love for solving mysteries, and unearthing secrets that could send her from walking along the beach to being silenced once and for all.

Can Maddie dig up the truth or will she be stopped in her tracks?

Recipe Included: Chocolate Cupcakes