Books like Charms and chocolate chips by Bailey Cates

Michael Corleone returns from a three‑year exile in Sicily to re‑enter America alongside young bandit Salvatore Giuliano, whose reckless acts have upset the Sicilian Mafia.

A thriller featuring a young prosecutor who becomes entangled in the case of a famous actress and her tragic death.

Katie Lightfoot trades roadside quiet for a bustling Savannah bakery, where her aunt’s spell‑laden recipes spark a murder mystery. With a journalist, a firefighter, and enchanted herbs, she must clear her uncle’s name and solve the crime.

Former jockey Nicholas Foxton witnesses the brutal, execution‑style murder of his financial‑advisor colleague at the Grand National, and must unravel a web of mystery that pits identity, loyalty, and extreme‑risk investments against each other.

Hannah Swensen, a Lake Eden baker, must solve a murder that unfolds during her annual Christmas buffet, using her baking skills and sleuthing to protect her town from danger amid a blizzard.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

Caterina Pellegrini, a Venetian-born baroque opera scholar, is sent back to Venice to examine two locked trunks thought to hold the papers of a deceased baroque composer, uncovering inheritance disputes and surprising secrets.

Rachel, a young academic working on a dissertation about the role of superstition and magic in traditional sewing, finds herself trapped when a mysterious antique quilt brings a supernatural threat into her life.

When a Hollywood production spills into Savannah, baker Katie Lightfoot and her spell‑casting coven must rescue the film’s cut‑scene with magic and macaroons, then solve a murder before another falls to the cutting‑room floor.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

Tom Forsyth, wounded veteran of the Afghanistan war, returns to his English childhood home, where a strained relationship with his race‑horse‑training mother turns into an unexpected, perilous welcome.

A town clerk's investigation of a murder that could clear a political scandal.

A Biblical scholar uncovers a mysterious letter from Jesus, leading him on a thrilling hunt to find the lost scroll that could change the world.