Sugar Calloway and Dixie Spicer are creating a cookbook keepsake for the wealthy Abbott family when murder becomes a part of the recipes. The cookbook creators find themselves walking a thin line between being sleuths and victims!

Quiche of Death had all the elements of a cozy mystery that I enjoy - a fast-paced mystery that kept me guessing, relatable & likable main characters, delicious descriptions of foods and lovable animal companions. I like the fact that the romances, of Sugar & Max and Dixie & the Sheriff, are progressing slowly and don't overshadow the well-written mystery. While the characters are independent, they don't do anything rash or put themselves into dangerous situations.

If you enjoy a cozy with a well-written mystery, friendship & recipes that make you want to cook - then the Quiche of Death is the perfect for you!

I received an ARC from NetGalley and the opinions of this book are my own.

Ms.Ashford's tale is one of friendship, romance and intrigue.
Who killed the fiancee of Sugar & Spice's lastest clients and why? Who was she? The information her boyfriend had was wrong.
Sugar Calloway and Dixie Spicer stayed at the family's bed and breakfast, and Sugar tripped over the body. The pair recovered enough to finish their meeting and left to design the cookbook they were hired for while the police investigated.
When Sugar returned to the inn to get approval, Sugar opened the mailbox that exploded, ending up with a trip to the hospital. No one seemed to know why the mailbox was blown up.
Sugar received a late night visitor and panicked..was this the killer?
Quick thinking by Sugar saved her life and helped to apprehend the killer in the end.
Ms.Ashford's tale is interesting and witty with a touch of romance.It includes some delicious sounding recipes as a bonus. I enjoyed it and will look for more of her work.
I requested and received a NetGalley ARC to peruse and offer my opinion freely.

Through NetGalley, I received a free copy of Quiche of Death (Book 3 of the Sugar & Spice Mysteries) by Mary Lee Ashford in exchange for an honest review. Sugar Calloway and her partner Dixie Spicer attend a weekend gathering hosted by their newest clients, the Abbott family. The pair are looking forward to creating a personalized cookbook memorializing favorite recipes and family history for the clients who made a fortune with their concoctions. The family is about as odd and as normal as most, but when the youngest male scion springs a surprise fiancée on the party, some of the family members are ruffled by the woman’s personality while others are offended by her existence. When Sugar finds the young woman’s body the next morning, the family’s bad attitude about the fiancée gives Sugar some suspicion that the homicide may have been intentional. As the obligation to contact the young woman’s nearest relatives reveals an additional mystery and as other incidents occur in connection to the Abbott family, Sugar works to unravel what’s really going on before more of the Abbotts or their connections become family history.

I liked this book and enjoy the series. I recommend the book and the series to fans of Mary Lee Ashford and to fans of cozy mysteries featuring murder, cooking, publishing, and small businesses.

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Its the third book in the series , but it's fine if you haven't read the previous novels.

Sugar and Dixie run a vanity cookbook publishing company and have been invited to stay at the Arbor's family home to dicuss theor book . The victim isn't really known to the family so there aren't any obvious suspects. Sugar and Dixie decide to do some sleuthing.

Its an easy book to read.

A fun twist and turn murder mystery which sidesteps obvious plot traps and pitfalls and is nice enough to put a few recipes at the end instead of endlessly interrupting the plot. And who can resist the title?

This is the third book in this series. Dixie and Sugar have a vanity cookbook business in what seems to be rural Iowa. AT times I am confused by references to Southern things- there is nothing southern about Iowa. I enjoyed the book for a light afternoon of reading. It is not a taxing read, so no big expectations set. I think it may help that I have read the previous books so that I already know who the characters are, so I don't need background. I felt the conclusion could have been elaborated on a bit. It was a good idea just not really gone into detail about.

Glad I've read the first 2 in this series to connect to the characters. I love the background setting of the cookbook publisher, but I was expecting more food in this one especially with the family gathering in the small town setting. The recipes at the end were nice though.

The title of this book tickled my funny bone, but unfortunately, the story fell flat to me.
Sugar and Dixie create wonderful cookbooks, and are asked to create a cookbook for the Abbott family. Things take a turn for the worse when a body is discovered and the ladies become involved in another murder investigation.
This is the third book in the series, which wasn't a problem, I just couldn't connect with any of the characters.

Third NetGalley in a row? Third NetGalley in a row. I couldn’t resist the pun of the title, and I did like the cover, so I applied for it… and got it a few days ago.

I had missed that it was the third book of a series, but it wasn’t that problematic: even if events of previous books were referred to, the book itself is fairly self-contained.

Sugar and Dixie have a business of publishing “community” or “vanity” cookbooks; for this one, they are talking to the Arbor Family, who made their fortune with quiche and eventually frozen dishes.


Sugar and Dixie are invited to a family gathering – a good occasion to try and talk to everybody and get content for the cookbook. But before anything starts, really, the girlfriend of one of the family’s sons dies with an arrow stuck in her chest…

I was expecting a cozy mystery type of book – with FOOD – and in that sense, the Quiche of Death delivered. We get to know the Arbor family and the B&B that a part of the family is running, and it definitely hits the boxes of a whodunnit in a small-town setting, and there’s also a number of places where I went “well, I could do with the recipe of THAT”, and the recipe was indeed at the end of the book.

I was, however, a bit more skeptical about the rhythm of the book. The first half just felt… off in a way that I can’t really describe, but I had a hard time getting into the first 40-50% of the book. It went better afterwards, but the ending almost felt rushed. I’m not saying it was bad, but it was not really compatible with me, probably. I also hard a hard time making sense of who was who in the secondary characters (the Arbor family and associates). The characters from the established universe felt more substantial, even though I felt that I missed the previous book (but I can’t blame this one for that, can I).

All in all, I can’t say that I didn’t enjoy Quiche of Death – it was a competent, if not great, mystery. It had some endearing points that actually make me consider reading the first two books. In particular, I do find the idea using the associates of a cookbook publishing company as main protagonists of a series interesting and my own kind of quirk 🙂 If you’re looking for a light and cozy mystery, Quiche of Death may just hit the right spot for you.