A Fatal Twist of Lemon by Patrice Greenwood
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ellen is ready to open her Victorian-themed tearoom in downtown Santa Fe, but her practice run with those who helped her ends up in murder.
I like the characters and setting, and had a hard time narrowing suspects, but I wished the author had included recipes. I will read the next one in the series.

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A Beeline to Murder by Meera Lester
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

New series to me, but I had to keep checking that it was the first one in the series because the narrator kept referring to the MC's previous investigations. All in all, it was a fairly good mystery with some unexpected twists.
Abby, a farmer and beekeeper, is taking some of her honey to the pastry chef in town, but when she walks into the kitchen, she finds him dead on the floor. It looks like he hung himself, but then, who cut him down, and where is his apron and the rope? With the help of policewoman Kat and the chef's brother, Phillippe, Abby looks for the killer.

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