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Amy Ridley's best friend, Carla, is getting married, and Amy is delighted to be recruited as the head wedding planner-even if Carla's bridal demands aren't exactly conventional. Navigating the world of nuptials becomes the least of Amy's problems when the owner of a menswear shop is found dead, and Carla's fiancé is assigned to the case as the lead detective. Amy and Carla vow to help track down the killer to save the wedding and honeymoon plans. Soon they discover there are even more sinister happenings affecting the businesses in downtown Kellerton, Michigan.…

JanelGradowski

When Amy Ridley enters the Holiday Celebrations Competition she was hoping to spread some Christmas cheer with her sparkling tablescape and delicious canapés. When other displays begin to literally fall apart she sets out to discover the Scrooge who is sabotaging the charity event.…

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Amy Ridley is as excited as everyone else in Kellerton, Michigan to have DIY Home Improvement star, Phoebe Plymouth, come to town for the first annual Cabin Fever Cure event. However, the TV star's prickly personality quickly turns people off. When she's found dead, at the business owned by Amy's husband, the hunt is on to catch the killer before his professional reputation is ruined.…

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Amy Ridley is excited to enter a cooking competition featuring her favorite breakfast treat-pancakes. But she has a lot more on her plate than coming up with pancake recipes. First, her estranged mother decides to pay her an unexpected visit. Then a vicious storm hits her small town of Kellerton, Michigan. There is damage everywhere, and one person is killed...but not by the storm.…

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Amateur sleuth, Amy Ridley, has a lot on her plate. Her very pregnant best friend, Carla, can barely move from her couch. So Amy is tasked with preparing meals for the expanding family along with baking endless pans of brownies to quench Carla's pregnancy cravings. Not only is she playing chef, but she's also trying to convince the mommy-to-be that she needs to have a baby shower. But when a restaurant owner is murdered at a blogging conference, Amy finds herself in a race to catch the killer before the baby is born.…

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When Amy Ridley decided to compete in the Kellerton Summer Festival Pie Contest, the last thing she expected was to find the reigning pie queen dead. When Amy receives a note threatening her own life, she decides to investigate the murder herself. It seems that half the town has a reason to kill the mean pie queen. While Amy sifts through a list of suspects she also ends up playing cupid for her love-shy best friend, fending off a baker intent on finding out her prize-winning culinary secrets, and evading the killer who wants to make her the next victim. PLEASE NOTE: This story was previously published on Wattpad on my former publisher's profile, who was incorrectly listed as the author at that time.…

JanelGradowski

Amy Ridley and her friend, Sophie, have perfected their chicken soup recipe to compete against other local chefs in the Chicken Soup Showdown. But the charity event has a rocky start when Amy finds the dead body of another competitor. Adding to Amy's stress, the detective in charge of the investigation targets her best friend, Carla, as the chief suspect in the murder.In order to clear her friend's name, Amy conducts her own investigation. Soon her suspect list is longer than the list of ingredients in her secret chicken soup recipe. Can Amy figure out who really killed the celebrity chef? Or will Carla end up in jail?…