Books like Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

Hope McKenna‑Smith, a bakery owner and divorced mother, is pulled into a 70‑year family secret when her aging grandmother mobilizes her on a world‑wide journey that reshapes their lives.

"Jules Capshaw is still chewing over her husband Carlos's return to Ashland, Oregon. Could there be too many cooks in the kitchen? Whatever is stirring between those two will have to wait. Despite the Oregon Shakespeare Festival being dark for the winter, the bakeshop is bustling, the dough is rolling, and there's no rest for the weary, especially when murder is thrown into the mix. When Mindy Nolan, the owner of a new restaurant in town, turns up dead, the batter at hand thickens. Jules knows that there was bad blood between Mindy and others in town, and tracking down the killer could prove to be an unwelcome treat. And to top it all off, there's Carlos, who is pleading--with those delicious dark eyes and sexy Spanish accent--for Jules to take him back. Is home where the heart is or will she make a fresh start and risk getting burned?" -- back cover.

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

After thirty years of mystery, Miranda inherits her eccentric uncle Billy’s struggling bookstore, Prospero Books, and discovers a final scavenger hunt. She must solve the clues, unearth hidden family secrets, and rescue the shop she loves.

When elite Heiress Poppy takes her own life, her surviving siblings must uncover a decades‑old family curse that may turn her death from suicide into murder.

A routine cake delivery becomes a culinary nightmare when a small-town baker discovers her first client's dead body. It'll take more than a little sugar to convince folks Daphne Martin's freshly baked spice cake was not to blame for the mysterious death of town gossip Yodel Watson. Getting her new cake decorating business, Daphne's Delectable Cakes, off the ground is hard enough now that Daphne's moved back to her southern Virginia hometown, but orders have been even slower since she found Yodel's body. She soon realizes, however, that just about everybody in town had a reason to poison the cantankerous busybody, from the philandering pet shop owner, to Yodel's church potluck nemesis, to the Save-A-Buck's cranky produce manager-turned-bagger. Now, to help prove she's no confectionary killer, Daphne recruits her old flame, Ben Jacobs, editor of the local newspaper, and quickly stirs up a long-hidden family scandal that just might hold the secret ingredient she needs to solve the case. All she's got to do is roll up her sleeves and get her hands a little dirty before the real culprit decides that taking sweet revenge on Daphne will be icing on the cake.

When an explosive fire destroys the family‐owned antique business, the surviving sister battles for truth while uncovering a deadly secret that ties her family to a long‑forgotten crime.