Featuring - Daryl Wood Gerber/Avery Aames

I met a new author on a couple of online book clubs this month that I want to introduce you to. I had fun getting to meet her. She writes cozies and suspense/thrillers. (She is also very generous in her giveaways.😄 ) Daryl also writes under the name Avery Ames.

About:  "Agatha Award-winning Daryl Wood Gerber writes the French Bistro Mysteries as well as the nationally bestselling Cookbook Nook Mysteries.

As Avery Aames, she pens the popular Cheese Shop Mysteries.

Daryl also writes stand-alone suspense: Day of Secrets and Girl on the Run.

As an actress, Daryl appeared in “Murder, She Wrote, Hart to Hart and Matlock." She loves to cook and has some great recipes in her books and on her blog.

As Daryl Wood Gerber

• Cook Book Nook Mysteries: There are eight books in this series (Sifting Thru the Clues just came out this week). 

  "In need of a change, Jenna Hart leaves the high-pressure world of advertising to help her aunt, Vera, open a culinary bookshop and café. Back with her family in Crystal Cove, California, Jenna seems to have all the right ingredients for a fresh start--until someone adds a dash of murder." 

• The French Bistro series: There are two books in this series.

It's always been Mimi Rousseau's dream to open her own bistro, but it seems beyond her grasp since she's been chased back home to Nouvelle Vie in Napa Valley by her late husband's tremendous debt. Until her best friend Jorianne James introduces her to entrepreneur Bryan Baker who invests in promising prospects. Now, working the bistro and inn until she's able to pay it off and call it her own."

• Day of Secrets is a stand alone novel, a supense/thriller.

"A mother he thought he’d lost. A father he never knew. An enemy that wants them dead.

At the age of five, Chase Day became an orphan. For thirty-one years, after a rebellious youth, he did his best to turn his life around and build a normal life—first as a Naval officer and then as a history professor at a boutique Bay Area college. Now, all that changes when he finds his mother, whom he thought had perished in a fire, dying from a gunshot wound. In her last breath, she urges him to find and protect the father he never knew. Where has his father been? Why has he never made contact? Can Chase discover why his family is a target before an unknown enemy destroys him?"

• Girl on the Run: A stand alone novel, suspense/thriller.

"When a fairytale fantasy night becomes a nightmare, Chessa Paxton must run for her life...but will the truth set her free?

Chessa Paxton, an event planner in Lake Tahoe, celebrates a successful night at the Happily Ever After Ball, but her dream quickly becomes a nightmare when she wakes up beside the body of her dead husband. Nauseous and confused, feeling as if she's been drugged, she can't explain to the sheriff why her princess costume is bloodied. With her father already a convicted murderer, she feels invisible shackles ratcheting onto her wrists and ankles. She runs! But she can't escape vivid flashes of memory: a massacre in a meadow; men and women in fairy tale costumes; Snow White’s dead body shielding her from bullets.

Though Chessa is a former costumer and a master of disguise, she quickly learns that hiding while trying to prove herself innocent is the most difficult task imaginable. Especially when the sheriff wants to throw her in jail and the real killer wants to silence her forever."

• The Cheese Shop Mysteries written as Avery Aames: There are seven books in this series. Daryl won an Agatha Award for Best First Novel for the first book in the series, "The Long Quiche Goodbye."

The protagonist of the series, is Charlotte Bessette. Charlotte runs the Fromagerie Bessette cheese shop (aka “The Cheese Shop”) in the fictional town of Providence, Ohio. You can find out more about Daryl and her books on her website: http://darylwoodgerber.com/ Daryl is also a contributor to a wonderful blog with seven other authors: Mystery Lovers' Kitchen. I made a cake Daryl shared the recipe for; Gooey Butter Cake and it was soooo good. I also have my eye on Curry Egg Salad. https://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com/ I am looking forward to reading three of her books I now have: Pressing the Issue, Sifting Thru the Clues, For Cheddar or Worse. Please check our Daryl Wood Gerber's many books. I am sure you will find a great read.