Lyndsey Murray has fought hard for her family’s Spice Isle Bakery to be included in Brooklyn’s Caribbean American Heritage Festival. Despite some initial setbacks, her bakery represents itself well. Even Sheryl Cross, the prickly festival organizer who’d tried to block their initial application after the Murrays were implicated in two homicides, is mollified enough to…
Business at Brooklyn’s Spice Island Bakery is picking back up now that the Murray family has been cleared of any involvement in the murder of their once-competitor. Our heroine, Lyndsay Murray, may have had a lot to do with catching the actual killer and definitely holds a grudge against the police detective who suspected she…
Ever since she was a little girl, Lynds Murray has wanted to open a Caribbean-style bakery in her Brooklyn neighborhood. After a post-graduate degree and time in the marketing trenches, she’s finally saved up enough money to open the store of her dreams. With the help of her parents, her brother Dex, and her formidable…
What goes best with a good cozy? A mug of coffee, sure. A cup of tea, absolutely. But nothing beats a good cocktail! Here are our hand-picked cocktail pairings for each book in the sampler. Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings Pimm’s Cup: A London staple created in the 1800s, the same city and century this…
Olivia Blacke’s Record Shop Mysteries follows Juni Jessup and her sisters as they run a record shop in Cedar River, Texas. The first book in the series, Vinyl Resting Place, releases Dec. 27, 2022. Olivia Matthews’s Spice Isle Bakery Mysteries features a West Indian-American family who’ve opened a bakery in the Little Caribbean neighborhood in…
A Note from Author Olivia Matthews A Taste of the Caribbean: Inspiration for Against the Currant My family immigrated to the United States from Grenada, West Indies, when I was very young. I have a vivid memory of walking with my father in my childhood neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1970s.…
