Honey Pie, by Donna Kauffman

Honey D’Amourvell has a secret, one which has kept her “hiding in a barn,” as she puts it, for eight years. It might be more accurate to say that she has been working in a barn, building a business as a sculptor. When her beloved aunt leaves her a...

Out of the Frying Pan, by Robin Allen

Poppy Markham is a health inspector, a vegan foodie, and an amateur sleuth — apparently just out of sheer nosiness, which is refreshing. It’s no surprise that she’s at the Feast in the Fields, a special event at Good Earth Preserves, an organic farm...

Portrait of a Dead Guy, by Larissa Reinhart

Cherry Tucker is a classically trained artist, but she’s also a down-home girl who drops by her grandpa’s for fried chicken, advice, and tussles with a goat. Luke Harper was a high school sweetheart, back in town after a unexplained absence, and Todd...

A Brush with Death, by Karen MacInerney

Natalie Barnes has left the rat race to become an innkeeper at the Gray Whale Inn on Cranberry Island, Maine. She’s trying to learn to knit, she’s engaged to be married, and she has her young niece, Gwen, living with her — you could say she’s...

Dating the Devil, by Lia Romeo

Lucy is living in a closet — literally — in a New York apartment with two roommates, working 50 hours a week at a PR firm with two workers and one client, dating one loser after another. She controls her envy of her roomies pretty well, but when she meets...