Isis Crawford

Isis Crawford: A Catered Bake-Off

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Mystery with Recipes #19

Isis Crawford’s latest addition to her “mystery with recipes” series is A Catered Bake Off. The owners of A Little Taste of Haven Catering, sisters Libby and Bernie Simmons, have a knack for solving mysteries. So much so that they are now sought out by those in need of a little amateur sleuthing expertise. Libby and Bernie each have very distinctive personalities and methods that allow them to play off each other, approaching the same clues and problems from different angles. It also helps that their father is a former detective and can advise them on how to proceed with whatever they find. Often the sisters and their father ruminate over cases and cake, a combination that often results in progress in culinary master pieces, or a break in the case. Their catering business has taken off in popularity recently, and it’s becoming difficult to keep up with the orders, which is a very good problem to have. read more

Isis Crawford: A Catered Quilting Bee

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Mystery with Recipes #18

In Isis Crawford’s seventeenth book, A Catered Quilting Bee, sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons find themselves in for far more than they bargained for when they are hired to cater the Longely Sip and Sew Quilting Circle’s fist exhibit event. First one of the members is found dead, and Bernie and Libby are hired by Cecelia Larson to investigate. Suicide appears to be the cause of death, and the local authorities rule it as such, but her friends just cannot believe it.  What starts as a basic fact-finding quest turns into a full-blown murder investigation for the Simmons sisters. Luckily their father was an impressive detective back in his day on the force, and he raised his girls to investigate and sleuth out the truth, even if their actual profession is more about solving the perfect recipe instead of the perfect crime. read more