Ruthie Kent

The Honey Hollow Mysteries · Honey Hollow, Vermont

Every recipe calls for one body.

Cozy mysteries from a small Vermont bakery, where Clem Ainsworth bakes for the town and keeps finding out what the town would rather she didn’t.

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Recipe No. 1 · Honey Hollow Mysteries

Almond Croissants and Alibis

Ingredients

  • 1 pastry chef, fresh from a viral on-camera meltdown
  • 1 grandmother’s honey-scented bakery
  • 1 beekeeper, found dead in his own honey house
  • A sweet little town with a secret worth killing for

Method

Clem Ainsworth threw her apron at a Michelin-starred chef on camera and ran home to her grandmother’s honey-scented bakery, only to watch the town’s beekeeper turn up dead in his own honey house the night after he praised her croissants.

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Recipe No. 2 · Honey Hollow Mysteries

Baklava and Bad Blood

Ingredients

  • 1 long-lost cousin with questions
  • 1 family secret, buried since 1962
  • 1 covered bridge bearing the Ainsworth name
  • 1 dead professor and all his research

Method

The dead professor was the only man asking what the Ainsworths buried in 1962, and his research makes Clem a suspect in a murder on her own family’s bridge.

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Recipe No. 3 · Coming soon

Crème Brûlée and Cold Cases

Ingredients

  • 1 stranger, come to clear her father’s name
  • Maple crème brûlée, three days before Christmas
  • The Hollow Bean’s cellar stairs
  • A truth the town has kept for sixty years

Method

Catherine Farrow tasted Clem Ainsworth’s maple crème brûlée three days before Christmas and promised to come back at dawn with a secret about Clem’s grandfather. By morning, she was dead at the bottom of the Hollow Bean’s cellar stairs.

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Ruthie Kent writes cozy mysteries for readers who believe the best conversations happen over pastry and the best mysteries are the ones you can solve from your favorite armchair with a cup of tea in your hand.

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