Isis Crawford
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Gastronomical dream team sisters Bernadette and Libby Simmons, owners of A Little Taste of Heaven Catering, are thrust into a Celtic knot of malice and mayhem when plans for a special St. Patrick's Day celebration go awry. For most people in town, St. Paddy's Day means good food, great music, and plenty of Guinness. But when Mike Sweeney's body is discovered floating atop a vat of green beer, the celebrating comes to an abrupt end before it even begins....
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Mystery with recipes volume 9
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2013.
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Bernie and Libby Simmons, caterers extraordinaire, are hosting a televised cookie contest just in time for Christmas, but unfriendly rivalries cook up a cutthroat competition.
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Mystery with recipes volume 7
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[2010]
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The proprietors of A Little Taste of Heaven, their Longely, N.Y., catering company, prepare a Thanksgiving feast for Scrooge-like fireworks manufacturer Monty Field and his family at the Field mansion. When Monty comes into the kitchen to test the roasting turkey, Bernie and Libby watch in horror as Monty taps the pop-up button in the bird's breast and the turkey explodes, blowing off the top of his head. Libby fears their stuffing made the turkey...
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Mystery with recipes volume 18
Pub. Date
2024.
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"When one of their members is discovered dead, the members of the Longley Sip and Sew Quilting Circle don't accept the police's determination of suicide"--
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Mystery with recipes volume 16
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[2021]
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Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons run a catering business in their upstate New York town, and they're delighted for the chance to provide tasty desserts for the local mystery lovers' book club. But when fiction spills into a reality and the sisters find themselves investigating a suspicious death, it's up to them to figure out whodunit...
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Mystery with recipes volume 17
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2022.
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"At A Little Taste of Heaven, Bernie and Libby Simmons cater all sorts of affairs, from book clubs to bridal showers and everything in between. So when their counterman, Googie, asks them to cater a doggie wedding for his girlfriend Jenni's eight-month-old golden retrievers, they jump on the opportunity. The reception, which will also serve as a grand opening for Jennie's new doggie daycare center, is no small affair. Bertha and Ernie--the bride and...
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Mystery with recipes volume 10
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High noon on July Fourth in the quiet town of Longley, New York, and it's got to be one hundred degrees. Thankfully, sisters Bernie and Libby are setting up their yummy catering out of the sun in the gazebo for the reenactment of The Battle of Meadow Creek--and not baking in those Revolutionary War uniforms with their fellow townspeople... After a few cheery exchanges of "Moveth" and "Thou speakest treason," the muskets are fired and the fake battle...
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Mystery with recipes volume 11
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"When a prank goes horribly wrong, ending up with her old college roommate Ellen Hadley being accused of murder, caterer Bernie Simmons, along with her sister, Libby, enlists the help of Ellen's kids to solve the mystery"--
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2019.
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"It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family--though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner, which happened within hours of each other--and were both ruled accidental. Ada thinks otherwise--and has a plan. On New Year's Eve, she'll gather a group...
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Mystery with recipes volume 13
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"When sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons agree to cater an extravagant Halloween party in their little upstate New York town of Longely, they figured a ghost or two and a blood curdling scream might be part of the menu, but they never expected to be haunted by the deadly specter of murder"--
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Mystery with recipes volume 14
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"Susie Katz, the crazy cat lady of Longely, New York, hires the Simmons sisters to cater a cat wedding. Chaos erupts when a wedding gift is unwrapped and mice jump out of the box. Three hours later, the cats have been caught, but their owner has been murdered and the Simmons sisters try to sniff out the killer"--
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The Simmons sisters, Libby and Bernie, owners of A Little Taste of Heaven, are ecstatic to cater the Halloween festivities at the Peabody School, a place rumored to be haunted. Businessman Mark Kane is going all out to include construction of a haunted house with high tech special effects that a Hollywood horror movie would envy. The event promises to be absolutely stunning--that is until the torso and severed head of Amethyst Applegate ends up on...
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Mystery with recipes volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
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"Quiet Longely, New York, is abuzz with excitement over the opening of a revamped art complex--and catering sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are helping put on an elaborate tea party for the opening night gala fundraiser. When the billionaire behind the project drops dead, the Simmons sisters find themselves steeped in a whistling kettle of murder"--
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2010.
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A Little Taste of Heaven catering certainly knows how to feed people. Dogs, however..? Bernie and Libby will have their chance to impress guests of the four-legged variety when they lay out the spread for Trudy the Pug's birthday luncheon. But this isn't just any doggie 'do. Trudy's owner, Annabel Colbert, is one of the richest women in town and as mascot of the Colbert toy company, Trudy herself is a bona fide celebrity. When the big day arrives,...
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Mystery with recipes volume 15
Pub. Date
2022.
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"It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family -- though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner, which happened within hours of each other -- and were both ruled accidental. Ada thinks otherwise -- and has a plan. On New Year's Eve, she'll gather...
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Mystery with recipes volume 2
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Leeza Sharp's dream wedding turns deadly when she is murdered just hours before her trip down the aisle, and it is up to her caterers Libby and Bernadette Simmons to solve the case of the nightmarish nuptials.
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Mystery with recipes volume 3
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[2005]
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Sisters and caterers Bernadette and Libby Simmons are set to appear on the Hortense Calabash Cooking show. They will compete with other chefs in putting together a holiday meal. The program gets off to a bad start, however, when Hortense is killed by an exploding oven. It soon becomes clear that the death was far from accidental.
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Mystery with recipes volume 6
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[2009]
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Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons cater a prize pooch's birthday bash--and unearth a killer in the process.
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A Mystery With Recipes volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
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The Simmons sisters dish up plenty of chuckles along with the chills.
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Mystery with recipes volume 8
Pub. Date
c2012
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When Mike Sweeney is found floating in a vat of green beer and the nephew of one of their best customers is accused of the crime, Bernie and Libby Simmons, the owners of A Little Taste of Heaven, must find the real killer.