Hart of Texas Murder Mysteries
A Bittersweet Murder

A Bittersweet Murder

Everyone knows everyone in small town Airlie Falls, so where could the killer be hiding?

For one brief hour on a sunny Texas morning, amateur bakerย Rosie Hartย glimpses the life sheโ€™s always dreamed aboutโ€”thanks to a surprise inheritance from the late Miss Alice. But her benefactor is barely cold in the ground when Rosie is accused of her murder.

As the only stranger in the tight-knit Airlie Falls community, and the only person with an obvious motive, all eyes turn to Rosie. Especially when more bodies begin to pile up and mysterious letters from the grave start circulating faster than Rosie can pull a tray of cherry nut clusters out of the oven.

When Rosie begins to suspect the murders have links to a sixty-year-old suspicious death on the very property sheโ€™s just inherited, town locals become uneasy. But how can Rosie prove the two are relatedโ€”and prove her innocenceโ€”before the killer strikes again?

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Preserving the Evidence

Preserving the Evidence

In this small town, not everyone is who they claim to beโ€ฆ

When amateur baker, and now amateur sleuth,ย Rosie Hartย finds herself embroiled in another mystery in rural Airlie Falls, Texas, she canโ€™t believe her bad luck. Soon the town is reeling from a murder, an unidentified body, a late mayoral challenge, missing town money, and a strange group of socialites gathered at a mansion out of town.

With so many of her new friends suspected of wrongdoing, Rosie canโ€™t sit on the sidelines any longer. Sheโ€™s convinced these strange occurrences are connected, but sheโ€™s running out of time to prove how. Sheโ€™ll need to unmask a murderer before thereโ€™s another body to add to the tally.

Snooping around undercover is harder than it looks, and Rosie will be lucky to get out of this one without more casualties than a batch of burned Buried Treasure Cookies.

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Candy-Coated Conspiracy

Candy-Coated Conspiracy

Every family has secrets, especially the sweet onesโ€ฆ

When talented bakerย Rosie Hartย delivers cakes and cookies to her newest clients, The Sweet Treat candy store, she finds herself embroiled in yet another murder case. Will she ever catch a break?

Her elderly clients, The Percival sisters, are shocked when their long-lost great nephew appears with no warning. The sisters have never met nor heard of the man, but heโ€™s family so they accept him with open arms. He immediately begins to tear up his auntsโ€™ home, so when he turns up dead, Rosie feels only a sense of relief. Until she realizes the police suspect the sisters.

Rosie is as convinced of their innocence as she is of the deliciousness of her popular salted caramel cupcakes. But as the body count begins to rise and new secrets are unearthed, she begins to wonder if the sweet artisan candy makers are hiding more than their family recipes.

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Murder Below the Mistletoe

Murder Below the Mistletoe

It was going to be a Christmas wedding to die forโ€ฆ

What could go wrong when bakerย Rosie Hartย heads to a snowy Colorado mountain lodge for a week of elaborate pre-wedding festivities at her friendโ€™s wedding? The better question would be: what could go right?

Rosieโ€™s fears for the nervous bride are confirmed when one of the wedding guests turns up dead. All evidence points to the groom being the intended victim, but with the guests dressed in Christmas-themed attire, and a dead Santa on their hands, Rosieโ€™s not so sure. What if the killer did hit the right target all along?

Stuck in a blizzard with the wedding party being picked off one by one, Rosieโ€™s investigative instincts kick inโ€”only this time sheโ€™s acting without the support of her friends back in Airlie Falls. Until her four irrepressible card-shark mentors from Riverbend Retirement Village unexpectedly turn up to rescue her.

The more the merrierโ€ฆright?

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Cupid, Cupcakes and Carnage

Cupid, Cupcakes and Carnage

Itโ€™ll be a Valentineโ€™s Day to celebrateโ€ฆif she makes it out alive.

Brilliant bakerย Rosie Hartย is busier than ever as she prepares for Airlie Fallsโ€™s famed Valentineโ€™s Day Farmers and Craft Market. The last thing she needs as she races to frost her cashew nut cakes is the mysterious appearance of a dead body found on her new fiancรฉ, Jonahโ€™s, property. To add icing to the cupcake, another long-dead body is found buried underneath it. For goodness bakes!

Rosie vows to leave the investigating to the sheriff this timeโ€”she has enough to juggle with her baking business and her nonagenarian friends who are entranced by a new seniors dating app. But when rumors begin affecting Jonahโ€™s construction business, enough is enough. Getting answers will mean retracing the unexplained disappearance of a woman ten years earlierโ€”a woman who had a dalliance with a now-famous actor and is supposedly speaking through a clairvoyant.

Can Rosie solve the case in time to ensure this Valentineโ€™s Day is remembered for all the right reasons?

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Dial M for Mud Cake

Dial M for Mud Cake

This wrong number is turning out to be deadlyโ€ฆ

As summer settles over Airlie Falls, Texas, bakerย Rosie Hartย is gearing up for the upcoming Fourth of July celebrations. Orders are coming in fast, but when someone calls in an order for a mud cake, Rosie feels uneasy. After a series of confusing phone calls, she comes to the chilling conclusion that the term โ€˜mud cakeโ€™ is in fact code for a โ€˜hitโ€™โ€”someone is ordering a murder!

As the dough for her Apple Custard Brioche Bread rises, so does Rosieโ€™s anxiety. This isnโ€™t like any of the cases sheโ€™s solved before. This time she has to save someone, but first she has to discover exactly who sheโ€™s supposed to be savingโ€”and more importantly, who wants that person dead.

With her commitment to the townโ€™s week-long festivities, trying to control her nonagenarian friends whoโ€™ve just discovered the home shopping network, determining if a long-lost child has indeed resurfaced, and not to mention an Elvis impersonator on every corner, Rosieโ€™s wondering if she can really unmask the person with murderous intent before they take matters into their own hands.

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