Dive into a Cozy Mystery
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Mystery Writer Maya Corrigan
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Welcome! I write mysteries about people caught up in crimes who pursue justice, armed with quick thinking and courage. My Five-Ingredient Mysteries feature a café manager who solves murders with her live-wire grandfather in a historic Chesapeake Bay town. Each book has five suspects, five clues, and Granddad's five-ingredient recipes.
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~ the mystery genre ~ easy recipes ~ a culinary mystery story ~ book club discussion questions. |
From the Kirkus Review of the latest Five-Ingredient Mystery, Crypt Suzette: "Granddad is a hoot to live with, and his jobs as a food reviewer and part-time detective provide endless possibilities for fun and murder."
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By Cook or by CrookHaunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist, Val Deniston has left New York City for a quieter life near the Chesapeake Bay. She now lives with her curmudgeonly grandfather in the tourist town of Bayport and enjoys running the Cool Down Café at the fitness club. When a club patron is murdered, Val whips us a scheme to find the killer. While she investigates, Granddad takes up cooking, creating havoc in the kitchen. But kitchen disasters are the least of Val's problems when a murderer targets her.
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ISBN: 978-1-61773-138-9
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Scam ChowderVal loves the historic town where she lives with her grandfather, the Codger Cook. Running the fitness club’s Cool Down Café—and salvaging the five-ingredient dishes Granddad messes up—keeps her busy. She’s used to his catastrophes in the kitchen, but not in the dining room. When a dinner guest, a scammer who preys on retirees, goes face down in the chowder, Granddad's in the soup. As the police gather the ingredients for a murder conviction against him, he and Val dredge up secrets that could save him or get them both killed.
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ISBN: 978-1-61773-138-9
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Final FondueAs Val helps her grandfather prepare for houseguests, visitors to Bayport’s Tricentennial Festival, he reminisces about the fondue parties of the 1970s, hauls down a fondue pot from the attic, and makes chocolate fondue to greet his guests. One guest eats her final fondue that night. In the dark the murderer might have mistaken her for another houseguest or even for Val. When a fondue fork and a kitchen knife disappear, Val and Granddad team up to keep the killer from making another stab at murder.
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ISBN: 978-1-61773-142-6
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The Tell-Tale TarteVal fears for her grandfather’s life when an actor famed for his Poe one-man show is murdered while dressed and made up to look like Granddad. She soon learns the actor isn’t the only one doing an impersonation. The search for his murderer takes Val and Granddad to the home of a Poe-inspired author, Rick Usher. When they are stranded at the "House of Usher" by an ice storm, they uncover clues to the murder, but will they live to tell the tale?
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ISBN: 978-1-4967-0917-2
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S'more MurdersAs warm April weather brings boaters to the Chesapeake Bay, Val agrees to cater a dinner party aboard a yacht. Its Titanic-obsessed owner asks her to re-create the final meal served on that doomed ship. On the anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking, the yachtsman welcomes his guests aboard and assigns them roles in a murder mystery game. Val soon reaches the chilling conclusion that the host is fishing for the culprit in a real crime. When someone disappears from the boat, Val has to reel in a killer before s’more murders go down.
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ISBN: 978-1-4967-0919-6
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Crypt Suzette
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When Val caters a Halloween party at Bayport’s new bookshop, the members of a creative writing group, the Fictionistas, dress up as book characters for a costume contest. One of them, the secretive Suzette, is renting a room from Granddad as she works her way through college. When she’s found dead of an apparent accident, Val and Granddad suspect foul play. So do her fellow Fictionistas, who accuse each other of murder. It takes Granddad's ghost-busting, Val's haunted house visit, and a Halloween ruse to unmask the killer.
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ISBN: 978-1-4967-2242-3
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