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Culinary Crimes & Sweet Alibis


The Dark Library • Cozy Mystery

Warm lamplit kitchen with baking tools and a half-eaten pastry, shadows suggesting hidden danger beneath cozy routines.

Culinary Crimes & Sweet Alibis

Kitchens are supposed to be safe places. Warm. Familiar. Predictable.

But anyone who’s spent time behind a counter knows better. Pressure builds quietly. Competition simmers. And resentment has a way of being plated with care.

This shelf belongs to readers who like their comfort laced with suspicion — where catering events, bake-offs, and community kitchens become stages for quiet rivalries and carefully concealed motives, tucked into the deceptive calm of The Dark Library.

Murder at the Culinary Showdown book cover
Murder at the Culinary Showdown
Lorna St James
A cooking competition turns tense when ambition outweighs etiquette. In close quarters, rivalries don’t stay professional for long.
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Red Velvet and a Murder book cover
Red Velvet and a Murder
L.B. Dayton
High-end catering hides more than polished presentation. When appearances matter, truth becomes the first thing trimmed away.
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Murder, Magic, and Muffins book cover
Murder, Magic, and Muffins
Stella Glass
Baking and belief collide where charm masks chaos. In places like this, curiosity is both a talent and a liability.
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Charts & Clues book cover
Charts & Clues
Widdy Thorne
Routine hides patterns most people overlook. In small communities, knowledge is power — and someone is abusing it.
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Kitchens remember everything. Every favor. Every slight. Every recipe borrowed and never returned.

— Penelope McGrath

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