Author Description

The Cozy Chicks are seven mystery authors - Leann Sweeney, Mary Kennedy Maggie Sefton, Kate Collins, Lorraine/L.L. Bartlett, Deb Baker (aka Hannah Reed), Mary Jane Maffini, and Ellery Adams.Welcome to our kitchen! Pull up a stool and let us pour you a cup of coffee. We'll have a chat as a pot of tomato basil soup bubbles on the stove. While the soup is simmering, feel free to sit back, relax, and listen to the sizzle of lemon chicken cutlets crisping to a golden brown in the frying pan. By the time we catch up on work and family and start discussing the last book we've read, the buttery, cinnamon scents of the apple ginger pie baking in the oven will curl around our shoulders like a warm shawl and coax a sigh of contentment from our lips.Friends, food, and fellowship. That is what home feels like. And the kitchen is the heart of the home. This sense of warmth and companionship is what The Cozy Chicks try to invoke in our novels. And now, our cookbook will invite you to enter the heart of our cozy mystery worlds - the stories of our characters and of their authors, told through food. For a short while, our protagonists have taken a break from crime solving to don aprons and wield spatulas and wooden spoons. And they'd like nothing more than to spend some time with you."If you're looking for a great cookbook - one you'll actually turn to again and again. Search no more! THE COZY CHICKS KITCHEN is chock full of mouthwatering gems. Everything is here: main dishes, desserts, salads, soups, drinks, and did I mention desserts? Don't miss this fabulous collection." - Julie Hyzy, New York Times bestselling author of the White House Chef and Manor House mysteries.