Jessica Beck
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English
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Just in time for the Winter Festival, a glistening layer of snow has covered the streets of April Springs, North Carolina. Of course, it reminds donut shop owner Suzanne Hart of sweet delicious frosting. But her visions of sugar plums plummet when her ex's ex-girlfriend gets iced...
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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April Springs, North Carolina, is hosting a grand tour of extraordinary kitchens, and local donut shop owner Suzanne Hart is dying to cook up something fabulous for the event. Unfortunately, dying turns out to be the key word. A local busy body drops dead after eating one of Suzanne's famous treats, and a forensic team is soon swarming through her kitchen. But with the help of police inspector Jake Bishop and her ex-husband Max, Suzanne hopes to clear...
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"Meet Suzanne Hart, owner and operator of Donut Hearts coffee shop in April Springs, North Carolina. After her divorce from Max, an out-of-work actor she's dubbed 'The Great Impersonator,' Suzanne decided to pursue her one true passion in life: donuts. So she cashed in her settlement and opened up shop in the heart of her beloved hometown. But when a dead body is dumped on her doorstep like a sack of flour, Suzanne's cozy little shop becomes an all-out...
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English
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It's hard to keep a secret in April Springs, especially about a no-good cheater like Peter Morgan. Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart has tried to be civil with the guy since he's dating her best friend Grace. Then Grace shows up at her doorstep sobbing, and Suzanne is the first to admit she's glad the relationship is over. She's also the first to spot the footprints leading to Peter's dead body. Now, instead of the usual morning donuts, the police are...
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The whole town of April Springs is stirring over the upcoming mayoral election. Suzanne Hart's mother, for one, is dead-set on replacing the current mayor...and what better way for Momma to drum up support than by luring in voters with Suzanne's drop-dead-delicious donuts? Just add chocolate, and they're sure to kill the competition... With Momma's half-baked campaign heating up faster than a donut shop deep fryer, Suzanne wonders if they've bitten...
Author
Series
Ghost cat cozy mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Christy Blake loses one of her two cats, Midnight, and her boss in what looks like a robbery attempt at her secondhand shop, Memories and Dreams, she thinks it's the end of the world. But Midnight isn't ready to go anywhere just yet, so he comes back as a ghost cat to help her track down his killer. Clearly there is a bond between Christy and Midnight that is too strong to be broken by something as trivial as death." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
287 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As owner of April Springss one and only donut shop, Suzanne Hart is privy to the deliciously personal, downright eccentric tastes of her customers. One man is crazy for crullers--heavy on the icing. But when he doesn't pick up his order, a tall dark stranger buys the whole box. Which he tosses, one drippy cruller at a time, at her friend Gabby's storefront next door... The man claims that stolen family valuables ended up in Gabby's thrift shop. His...
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 40
Publisher
[Jessica Beck]
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The owners of Donut Hearts and The Last Page decide to hold a festival featuring donuts and books, but when one of the guest authors dies in the middle of robbing the donut shop, Suzanne and Grace must solve the case and get the missing money back--or risk losing more than the proceeds from the festival.
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 33
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's finally time for Barton Gleason's pop-up bistro, but the grand opening is marred when a fellow chef and rival from culinary school is murdered nearby in one of the staging areas. Suzanne stumbles across the body, and while Jake is away dealing with his own family issues, she and Grace tackle the job of tracking down the real killer before someone else's goose gets cooked.
10) Tasty trials
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 29
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Suzanne and Jake win a weekend getaway to a luxury resort island in the mountains, they think they're in for the time of their lives. Little do they know that they've actually been brought there to help uncover who tried to kill their host. As the married team dig deeper into the case, they are soon isolated on the island with not only more potential victims, but the would-be killer as well.
11) Baked books
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 30
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
There's a new bookstore opening up across the street from Suzanne's donut shop, and when a group of mystery writers descend on April Springs for a panel on murder and mayhem in the book world, is it any wonder that homicide is soon on the menu at Donut Hearts?
12) Cranberry crimes
Author
Series
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Suzanne Hart gets an order for birthday doughnuts but the birthday boy is murdered before the party and Suzanne and her friends want to find the killer.
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 41
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
©2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Suzanne, Jake, Momma, and Phillip decide to buy an old house and fix it up, they soon discover that the neglected property is being used as a base for an illegal operation. The more they dig into the old house, the more they realize that there are more problems with the fixer-upper than just wiring and plumbing, and they must investigate the case or risk losing everything.
14) Caramel canvas
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 39
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Suzanne Hart returns to April Springs after being away, she learns that one of her good friends, artist Annabeth Kline, has died by accident in her studio, but as Suzanne looks deeper into the situation, it quickly becomes clear to her that Annabeth's death was no accident!
15) Sifted sentences
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 44
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Suzanne's mother gets a threatening note, no one but Suzanne and Grace seems to take it seriously. After all, several other folks around town have gotten them, too. The police think it's all just one big prank, but Suzanne knows better. As she and her best friend begin to dig into the case, things suddenly turn fatal in April Springs when someone is murdered, and Suzanne must figure out whether the threat against Momma is a separate incident...
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 32
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When head town councilman Van Rayburn is attacked at his home and left for dead, Suzanne and Jake struggle to prove that their friend, Mayor George Morris, is innocent of committing the assault. The only problem is that there is evidence left at the scene that implicates the mayor, and Van can't seem to remember the attack at all!
17) Perjury proof
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 38
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A pie shop is opening up in April Springs, but the owner is as sour as her pies are sweet! When she's murdered a few days before the grand opening, too many folks in April Springs had reasons to want to see the woman gone. Suzanne and Grace dive into the case, hopefully in time to save the next victim on the killer's to do list!
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 25
Publisher
Jessica Beck
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With Jake away on family business, Suzanne and Grace team up to investigate Gray Vincent's stabbing just after April Spring's Movie night in the park.
19) Vanilla vices
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 22
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Suzanne and Grace look into the murder of Crazy Dan the junk man and uncover several motives for his murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Createspace
Pub. Date
c2014.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Suzanne's boyfriend, Jake, is shot in the line of duty, he comes to April Springs to recuperate. The only problem is the that the man Jake was trying to capture has a partner, a very bad man now intent on seeking revenge. Add another villain returning from Suzanne's own past into the mix, and the donut shop owner's normally tranquil world is suddenly turned upside down.