It’s time to vote! 😁🗳️⁣ ⁣ Below are all three questions from part 8 of our collaborative cozy mystery, A BRUNCH WITH DEATH. Please comment below with your picks — one choice per question ONLY, please. You have until Wednesday to submit your answers. I’ll take the winners for each question and craft new pages […]

Our collaborative cozy mystery just keeps getting better and better! The intrigue is really starting to build thanks to your creative ideas. In case you missed it, this week’s winning idea for A Brunch with Death was option #2: The police found a metal box containing a key and cash behind the drywall. ⁣ ⁣ […]

https://youtu.be/cxzrVb3qW68   No eggs? 🥚 No butter? 🧈 No problem! 😋 Have you ever gone to bake a batch of cookies and discovered that you’re out of butter? Or maybe you don’t have enough eggs? I have definitely run into this situation myself, so that’s why, on today’s Torte Test Kitchen, I’m sharing how to […]

Who’s ready to vote? 🤷‍♀️ We had some really great suggestions for the latest cliffhanger of our collaborative cozy mystery, A Brunch with Death! The five choices for this week’s vote are listed below. Please choose your favorite (One. Choice. Only.) and let me know by posting it in the comments below. This is a […]

  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 […]