

Shannon is happy to put her rotten date behind her, but when Jerry’s found dead in a run-down Victorian home that she’s been hired to restore, the town’s attractive new police chief suspects that her threats may have laid the foundation for murder. On a blind date with real estate agent Jerry Saxton, she has to whip out a pair of pliers to keep Jerry from getting too hands on. Shannon’s home-renovation and repair business is booming, but her love life needs work. But while Shannon can do wonders with a power drill and a little elbow grease, she’s about to discover that some problems aren’t so easily fixed…. In the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California, everyone knows the best man for the job is actually a woman-contractor Shannon Hammer.

But will she have her just desserts? Murder might be bad for business, but love is the sweetest treat of all… His flirtations are as delicious as ever, and Jules can’t help but want to have her cake and eat it too. The silver lining? Jules’s high school sweetheart, Thomas, is the investigator on the case. A modern-day Lady Macbeth, Nancy has given more than a few actors and artists enough reasons to kill her…but still. The victim is Nancy Hudson, the festival’s newest board member.

But when one of Torte’s customers turns up dead, there’s much ado about murder… The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. Welcome to Torte-a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it’s criminal…Īfter graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery.
