Fudge Shop Mystery Series
Ava Oosterling came home to the harbor to make Belgian fairy-tale fudge and run the old inn on the bluff, and somehow keeps ending up the town's favorite amateur sleuth. Whenever trouble strikes, it is her trouble-magnet grandfather, her unflappable best friend Pauline, or someone else she loves who lands in the frame, and Ava has never once been able to leave a wrong alone.
Warm, witty, and stuffed with chocolate, the Fudge Shop Mystery Series serves small-town comfort with a body in every book, and a harbor town you will never want to leave.
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Book 1: Deadly Fudge Divas
Ava Oosterling's newly opened Blue Heron Inn finally has guests: five wealthy college friends who call themselves the Fudge Divas, booked in for a week of chocolate facials, wine, and her Belgian fairy-tale fudge. They tip like queens, argue like enemies, and guard a secret none of them will name. Then the spring fog lifts off the bay and one of them is found drifting beside Grandpa Gil's beloved boat, with blood on the deck and the sheriff looking hard at the one man Ava cannot lose. To clear her grandfather she must crack open almost thirty-five years of polished lies, and one of those smiling guests would rather see an innocent man fall than let the past surface.
Book 2: Undercover Fudge
Three days before the biggest wedding Door County has seen all summer, the sheriff corners fudge maker Ava Oosterling with an impossible request: go undercover at the reception and watch for a gang of thieves who strip weddings bare. The suspect on his list is the one name Ava cannot repeat, her best friend's long-lost mother, whose return finally gave Pauline a family. So Ava smiles through a lost ring drowned in warm chocolate, a runaway ring-bearing goat, and a fish boil that sets the woods alight, guarding a secret that could break the friendship she treasures most. Then the music stops, the guests roll home, and a body is left behind in a town that has never needed to lock a door. Someone planned this wedding down to its last cruel detail.
Book 3: Holly Jolly Fudge Folly
Every dawn this December, a small wrapped gift waits at Ava Oosterling's door, and even her security cameras cannot say who leaves them. She has fudge to stir, an inn to dress, and her best friend's Victorian Christmas wedding only days away, so the puzzle will have to wait. Then her grandfather steals the village snowplow to settle a grudge, and the car he buries on Main Street holds the town's dead tax assessor, a knife in his belly and only one set of fingerprints on the blade: Grandpa Gil's. Half of snowbound Fishers' Harbor wanted the man gone. Ava has until the wedding bells ring to find the one who acted, before the season she loves takes someone she cannot live without.