Seaside Café Mystery

The deliciously delightful first book in the new Seaside Cafe cozy mystery series. Sun, sand, and tea are just three of Everly Swan's favorite things. Her batty beekeeping great aunts and small, coastal hometown of Charm, North Carolina, round out the top five. So returning to Charm for a fresh start on her wilting life is an easy decision for Everly, and opening a new seaside cafe and iced tea shop puts the proverbial icing on her legendary lemon cakes. Everything is just peachy until a body turns up on the boardwalk outside her home, and a jar of her proprietary tea is found at the victim's side. Now, Detective Grady Hays, Charm's newest and most mysterious lawman, has named Everly as his number one suspect, and Everly's new start is about to go up in smoke unless she can dish up the real killer.

Iced tea shop proprietor Everly Swan lands in hot water when a wealthy groom-to-be is found dead outside her cafe Everly Swan's iced tea shop has quickly become a favorite in the quaint seaside community of Charm, North Carolina. Thanks to an unusually busy tourist season, word of her delectable creations has traveled all the way to Martha's Vineyard, swaying an old friend and her high-profile fiancé to tie the knot on the beach right outside Sun, Sand, and Tea. When the couple requests that Everly cater the entire event, she is thrilled to accept the offer-and all the wonderful exposure that's sure to come with it. But before the wedding bells can ring, Everly finds the groom's body heading out with the tide. And it's up to Everly to catch the culprit!

No one dreams of a killer Christmas... It's Christmastime in Charm, North Carolina, and while Everly Swan would prefer to focus on decorating her iced tea shop for its first holiday season, Great-Aunt Fran has decided to run for mayor against her long-time nemesis. But when the other candidate turns up dead just before the first scheduled debate, all eyes turn to Fran as the suspect with the most obvious motive. Everly knows her sweet, elderly Aunt Fran couldn't have murdered anyone, but as she struggles to find the real killer, it begins to seem like this may be the last merry Christmas her family may ever have.

It's sink or swim for Everly with her most bizarre case yet! Everly Swan is busy as a bee running her beachside iced tea shop, and the small island of Charm, North Carolina is abuzz-Mitzi Calgon, an iconic Hollywood actress, is in town! Everly's great-aunts are making a documentary about beekeeping and Mira has agreed to help. But when the actress turns up dead, reporters and fans swarm the island, muddying the water and disrupting the peaceful lives of the townspeople. Everly's never been good at minding her own beeswax, so she starts following her own leads and combing through the evidence. Then there's the mystery of Detective Hays-ever since their kiss under the mistletoe, he's been acting distant. And he's annoyingly determined to keep Everly away from the case. But when she receives a cryptic warning to "Bee Careful", Everly realizes that she's gotten herself into a really sticky situation... The fourth book in Bree Baker's Seaside Café Mystery series, readers of Joanne Fluke and Kate Carlisle will love A Call for Kelp!

When a spooky murder returns to the "ghostal" town of Charm, North Carolina, it's up to Everly to crack the case! Welcome back to Charm, North Carolina, where Everly Swan's dream of owning an iced tea shop and café has finally come true-along with a healthy side dish of murder. Everly Swan is perfecting a new iced tea recipe for her seaside café menu when a member of Aunt Clara's unspoken history group goes missing while on a haunted historic walking tour. Everly agrees to help with the search party and soon discovers the woman's body at a site the locals believe to be haunted. Detective Grady Hays suspects foul play, but everyone in town is crying, "Ghost!"

When a murder disrupts Charm’s theater production, Everly Swan will have to step in and save the day - after all, the show must go on! Drama comes to the small town of Charm, North Carolina! Everly Swan is busier than ever with her iced tea shop and café, and the town of Charm is bustling with excitement as they prepare for a big event: the annual outdoor play! Everyone's getting involved - even Matt the EMT plays a character in the show. But when a surfer rolls into town and tries to upstage Matt, and then turns up dead, things get dicey. Everly is convinced of his innocence, but Detective Grady - who's a little jealous of Matt and Everly's past dating history - isn't so sure. Now, Everly will have to run her business, crack the case, and save her friend - all by opening night! Contributor Bio: Bree Baker is the author of the Seaside Café mysteries and is a self-proclaimed nerd with a penchant for words and proclivity for fun. She lives in Ohio with her husband and three spunky children.

Everly might be running out of island time in her most dangerous case yet! Café owner and amateur sleuth Everly Swan, like every Swan woman before her, is cursed in love. The only problem? She's head over heels for Detective Grady Hays, who doesn't believe in magic of any kind. Grady wants to build a life with Everly, but before she can say "I do," she needs to take care of this curse once and for all. And luckily, the quirky inhabitants of Charm, North Carolina, are up to the task! But it feels like a sign when a historian researching the Swan family is murdered, and Everly fears the curse is spreading. She and Grady take the case, curse related or not, there's a killer loose on the island. Big change is coming for Everly and her friends, but between running her café, choosing a wedding dress, investigating mysterious strangers, and dodging increasingly threatening messages from the killer, Everly's not sure she'll get her happy ever after! The seventh thrilling addition to Bree Baker's acclaimed “Seaside Café Mystery” series, “Pleading the Fish” is a sun-believably heartwarming mystery!