Paige Shelton
21) A killer maize
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The last person Becca Robbins expects to run into at the Swayton County Fall Festival is her ex-husband, Scott Triplett, who's operating a shooting gallery. Honesty was not always Scott's policy, and their unexpected reunion becomes further complicated when the festival becomes a crime scene. On Becca's second day there, the Ferris wheel operator is found hanging from his rickety ride, dead from a gunshot. Now Becca begins to worry her ex may be involved....
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At Gram's Country Cooking School in Broken Rope, Missouri, Betts Winston and Gram are helping students prepare the perfect dishes for the Southern Missouri Showdown, a cook-off that draws lots of summer visitors. Then they discover the body of local theater owner Everett Morningside in the school's supply room - and Everett's widow points the finger at Gram. Now Betts must clear Gram's name while keeping the cook-off preparations on schedule - all...
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Bailey's Farmers' Market is abuzz over the visit of the Central South Carolina Restaurant Association, and Becca Robins is even more excited about her parents' unexpected visit. Her family watches as Becca happily hands out samples of her jams and preserves - until association president Joan Ashworth vetoes her strawberry preserves. Then Becca heads home to find Joan's body in her kitchen and her mother with blood on her hands.
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At Gram's Country Cooking School, Isabelle "Betts" Winston and her grandmother share their home-style culinary secrets. But what they keep to themselves are the secrets of Broken Rope, a quiet little Missouri town, that isn't nearly as quiet as it seems. A fresh school year begins as Gram and Betts anxiously await the arrival of their new crop of students. But their enthusiasm is thwarted when a stranger named Freddie O'Bannon arrives and claims...
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Betts and Gram agree to help their friend Jake at the Broken Rope, Missouri, Historical Society by accommodating some foodie tourists for the night and occupying them with cooking lessons. It couldn't be worse timing when the pair encounters the ax-wielding ghost of Sally Swarthmore, one of the town's legendary murderers. Sally wants Betts to help find her diary, which could prove that Sally was not a villain. Then one tourist turns up dead and two...
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"This summer, Becca is looking forward to selling her delicious jams and preserves, but things are changing fast at the farmers' market. A fleet of food trucks has arrived for a two week visit, peddling cupcakes, tacos, chicken wings, and more--including a gourmet hot dog truck operated by Becca's own cousin, Peyton. Tensions between truck operators and market vendors over their required licenses reach a crescendo when the town's business manager...
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Betts Winston has inherited more than her cooking skills from her grandmother, she can also see and talk to ghosts of people that once roamed the streets of Broken Rope, Missouri, in the days of the Old West. With Gram's Country Cooking School on spring break, Betts and Gram are taking part in this year's cowboy poetry convention, offering lessons on frying catfish over an open campfire. But when a staged gunfight ends in real death and her brother...
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Jam and preserve maker Becca Robins is excited about the extra business that the Ridgeway Christmas Tree Farm is bringing to the market this holiday season. But when a competing tree farmer, Reggie Stuckey, arrives with a truck full of trees, angrily barking that he has exclusive selling rights at the market, Becca finds herself pining for more goodwill toward men. After Reggie is found with a tree stake in his chest, she wonders when the Christmas...
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"With summer tourists flocking to Broken Rope, locals volunteer to keep chaos to a minimum. Old West skits are running smoothly, actors are behaving, and stagecoach rides are more popular than ever, but when a spectral visitor appears by ghost train, it's a job only Betts and Gram can handle. Gram soon starts having nightmares about their ghostly visitor's demise. And if a ghost and the hot summer weather weren't making things sticky enough, one of...