Publisher Description
Trying to escape her overbearing mother, vintage kitchenware enthusiast and soon-to-be columnist Jaymie Leighton retreats to her family's cottage on Heartbreak Island. While there she hopes to write an article about the Ice House restaurant, owned by good friends and neighbors, siblings Ruby and Garnet Redmond. Once an actual icehouse, the restaurant is charmingly decorated with antique tools of the trade, including a collection of ice picks. One night, while working on her article, Jaymie overhears an argument and, ever the sleuth, sets out to explore. But when she stumbles upon a dead body her blood runs cold. It's Urban Dobrinskie, whose feud with the Redmonds is no secret, and he's got an ice pick through his heart. Now Jaymie's got to sharpen her sleuthing skills to chip away at the mystery and prove her neighbors' innocence—before someone else gets picked off . . .
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“Smartly written and successfully plotted, the debut of this new cozy series…exudes authenticity.”
—
Library Journal, praise for the series
About the Authors
Victoria Hamilton is the pseudonym of a nationally bestselling romance author. She
now happily writes about vintage kitchen collecting, muffin baking, and
dead bodies for Berkley Prime Crime in the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries and
Merry Muffin Mystery series. Besides writing about murder and mayhem,
and blogging at Killer Characters, Hamilton collects vintage kitchen
wares and old cookbooks, as well as teapots and teacups. She also enjoys crafting, especially cross stitch and crocheting.
Victoria Hamilton is the pseudonym of nationally bestselling romance author Donna Lea Simpson. She is the bestselling author of three mystery series, the Lady Anne Addison Mysteries, the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries, and the Merry Muffin Mysteries. She is also the bestselling author of Regency and historical romances, writing as Donna Lea Simpson.
About Emily Woo Zeller
Emily Woo Zeller is an artist, actor, dancer, choreographer, and voice artist who has won Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration in 2018. She began her voice-over career by voicing animation in Asia. AudioFile magazine named her one of the Best Voices of 2013 for her work in Gulp. Other awards include the 2009 Tristen Award for Best Actress as Sally Bowles in Cabaret and the 2006 Roselyn E. Schneider Prize for Creative Achievement.