What a week it was for our collaborative cozy mystery, A Brunch with Death! 🥐☠️ Initial voting ended in a tie for one of our questions and, after a deluge of back and forth tie-breaker voting yesterday, finally settled on a winning answer. It was still close, though! And, of course, as with all […]

After an incredible response to this week’s voting, including an additional tie-breaker for one of the questions, we have our winning answers and recipes! What is Brady hiding? What exactly was Hank doing in the kitchen? And what delicious recipes are going to be on the menu for the ill-fated brunch? The winning choices are […]

Agatha Christie is the writer who first got me hooked on cozy mysteries. ☠️ I imagine the same is true for many of you as well. This week, I’m sharing five of my favorite British cozy mysteries and series in an Ode to Agatha, because nothing is quite as idyllic as the English countryside…with the […]

It’s time vote for your favorites! 🙋‍♀️⁣ Please select your choices for all THREE questions to help guide the next section of our collaborative cozy mystery, A BRUNCH WITH DEATH. Be sure to select both a sweet AND a savory recipe for question three and leave all your choices in the comments. 🍰🥓⁣ I’ll take […]

Just in time for the weekend…it’s giveaway time! 🎉 ⁣ In anticipation of the upcoming release of Nothing Bundt Trouble, the 11th book in my Bakeshop Mystery Series, I wanted to do something fun. No, make that something awesome! 😎⁣ Since this book flashes back to the beginnings of Torte in the 80s — the […]

It’s been such a great distraction for me to write a collaborative mystery short with you! We have ourselves a body and now need to figure out details about the suspects. I’m loving all the creativity going into this collaborative spin-off. It’s clear that cozy mysteries are passion for this group and I couldn’t be […]

On this episode of the Torte Test Kitchen, I’m sharing a delicious Bundt cake recipe using a box cake mix. Since we’re at home right now, I wanted to give you some simple Bundt cake recipe hacks you could try that will help you create the perfect Bundt without having to go to the store […]

Okay so you may have noticed that the questions for this week’s pages of A BRUNCH WITH DEATH weren’t as open ended this time. That’s because I have a surprise assignment for you! Join me on Wednesday at 4:00pm PT LIVE on Facebook. We’ll chat about our progress and how the story is developing and […]

Our collaborative cozy mystery, A Brunch with Death, is really starting to flow! I know I say this every week, but I am having the BEST time writing this spin-off with all of you. 🥰 I may just have to branch out into a whole new line of cozy mysteries that are community-driven. Who knows? […]

What are cozy mysteries? I’m ready a cozy mystery? Why are your books called cozy? 🤷‍♀️📚 As our community on social media continues to grow and people are spending more time reading, I’ve been getting more and more questions like the ones above from readers new to my books about the cozy mystery genre. Whenever […]