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When an unlikeable retiree passes out while walking home from Felica's food truck, everyone dismisses the incident as a simple medical emergency, but Felicia's not convinced. Someone had a hand in Mrs. Dunn's collapse, and Felicia is determined to find out who and why.
When Antonio's mobile pizza kitchen starts poaching Felicia's customers, she's less than pleased. But then a rash of vandalism culminates in the rival food truck going up with a bang, and her cook, Arnie, has some explaining to do. It's up to Felicia to find the real perpetrator before Arnie is charged with the crime. The Felicia's Food Truck One Hour Mysteries: Fit to be French Fried Hamburger Heist Pizza Pie Puzzler Hot Dog Horrors
It’s Christmas time at Little Tombstone, a rundown roadside tourist attraction in the tiny town of Amatista, New Mexico, and the annual visit from Santa Claus to the children of the village doesn’t quite go as planned. Edgar Martinez, who’s played Santa every Christmas for the past twenty years, fails to make an appearance. He doesn’t even call. The show must go on, so a substitute Santa takes Edgar’s place. But when Emma decides to investigate why Edgar, who is normally a rock of reliability, didn’t show up for the twenty-first year running to put on his size XXXL crimson crushed velvet Santa suit, she discovers that Edgar seems to have disappeared altogether
Just as recently-single Bitsie George is settling into her new life as a professional baker, things get complicated. Bitsie’s too-handsome-to-be-real shop assistant, Nick, gives his grandfather a dozen cherry chocolate cupcakes to share with his friends at Shady Grove retirement home. When one of the cupcakes turns out to be laced with a potentially fatal dose of Grandpa Roscoe’s heart medicine, and his romantic rival for the affections of Miss Lavinia Fay ends up in the hospital, Grandpa Roscoe becomes a prime suspect. But was it really Roscoe who poisoned that cupcake, or is there someone else with murder on his mind? It’s up to Bitsie to find the real culprit before Roscoe gets arrested, or, worse yet, the poisoner strikes again.
Sometimes, baking gets a little too competitive. Occasionally, it turns deadly. When Bitsie is confronted by a faded celebrity baker claiming that Bitsie has stolen the woman's prize banana cream frosting recipe, Bitsie tries to shrug off the incident as the ravings of an unhinged has-been. But instead of fading from view, the frosting-obsessed eccentric becomes the central figure in not one but two suspicious deaths in Little Creek. Joined by her semi-retired police officer brother, Stan, and her too-handsome-to-be-real bakeshop assistant, Nick, Bitsie uses her natural nosiness to see that justice is served, and no sweet-tooth in Little Creek is left unsatisfied.
When Antonio's mobile pizza kitchen starts poaching Felicia's customers, she's less than pleased. But then a rash of vandalism culminates in the rival food truck going up with a bang, and her cook, Arnie, has some explaining to do. It's up to Felicia to find the real perpetrator before Arnie is charged with the crime.
Monica, a food blogger who gave Bitsie's Bake Shop a glowing write-up in the local paper, inexplicably goes missing after picking up a box of cupcakes from the bakery. Is Monica simply running away to escape a bad marriage, or is there a more sinister reason for her sudden disappearance? At the same time, there's the scissor-wielding creep attacking random women in parking lots and two local hucksters bent on defrauding senior citizens with their bogus "investment" scheme? Are all these crimes related somehow? It's up to Bitsie to find out.
When Felicia's food truck is held up by a masked robber, it's up to Felicia to find the real culprit before the wrong man is convicted of the crime.
Emma Iverson is just settling into her new life at Little Tombstone when one cowboy from a neighboring ranch is murdered and another goes missing. When Earp, Emma's ancient and irritable pug, drags in a single bloody work glove belonging to the missing man, she knows It's up to her to find the missing ranch hand before the murderer does. Emma's investigation is complicated by a spate of mail thefts, attempts to turn Earp into a social media sensation, the acquisition of a potbellied piglet, and a local eccentric's insistence that his late mother is sending him cryptic messages through the crossword puzzles in the local paper.
When Emma Iverson's great aunt Geraldine leaves her a rundown roadside attraction in rural New Mexico, the inheritance comes with strings attached. If Emma wants to take possession of Little Tombstone's motel, cafe, curio shop, and Museum of the Unexplained, then she has to agree to "Love, Honor and Cherish" Earp, her late aunt's ancient and irritable pug. It says so, right there in the will. What Aunt Geraldine's will conveniently omits to mention are the bodies buried underneath the trailer court.