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Biscuits and Burials: A Southern Cozy Culinary Mystery
Biscuits and Burials
A Covington Mystery
A lost recipe. A buried vault. A murder that crumbles the town’s past.
When Peach Cove’s annual Founders Day Festival is shaken by the sudden death of a local historian, mother-daughter duo Lila Mae and Callie Covington find themselves at the center of another small-town scandal—this time baked right into the history books.
It all starts when the Covington family’s prized biscuit recipe goes missing from the historical archive… just hours before a suspicious tent collapse leaves historian Earl Fenwick dead. As the Covingtons dig deeper, they uncover a secret fund, a hidden vault, and a decades-old deception involving some of the town’s most powerful families.
With a trail of tampered ingredients, sabotaged bake-offs, and a ledger full of dirty dough, Lila Mae and Callie must race to uncover the truth before someone else gets burned. But in a town built on tradition—and more than a few secrets—some recipes are protected at all costs.
Biscuits and Burials is a warm and witty Southern cozy filled with flaky layers of mystery, heart, and heritage. In Peach Cove, the past always rises—and sometimes, it brings trouble with it.
A Covington Mystery
A lost recipe. A buried vault. A murder that crumbles the town’s past.
When Peach Cove’s annual Founders Day Festival is shaken by the sudden death of a local historian, mother-daughter duo Lila Mae and Callie Covington find themselves at the center of another small-town scandal—this time baked right into the history books.
It all starts when the Covington family’s prized biscuit recipe goes missing from the historical archive… just hours before a suspicious tent collapse leaves historian Earl Fenwick dead. As the Covingtons dig deeper, they uncover a secret fund, a hidden vault, and a decades-old deception involving some of the town’s most powerful families.
With a trail of tampered ingredients, sabotaged bake-offs, and a ledger full of dirty dough, Lila Mae and Callie must race to uncover the truth before someone else gets burned. But in a town built on tradition—and more than a few secrets—some recipes are protected at all costs.
Biscuits and Burials is a warm and witty Southern cozy filled with flaky layers of mystery, heart, and heritage. In Peach Cove, the past always rises—and sometimes, it brings trouble with it.
58 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 18, 2025
About the author
Dee Thompson
28 books2 followersI earned a BA in Drama and an MA in Creative Writing and I have worked as a freelance writer, a journalist, and a paralegal. My essays have been included in the award-winning books Call Me Okaasan [2009] and The Divinity of Dogs [2013]. I have written a number of novels and they are all on Amazon: Ghosts in the Garden City [2019], Leaf Season [2019], Heart of My Own Heart [2020], Return to Marietta [2022], Dancing in the Wreckage [2023] and The Wedding Conspiracy [2023]. Additionally, I’ve published a cookbook, What’s for Dinner, Mom? and I compiled and edited a posthumous memoir of my mother’s writings, Singing to the Cows [2021]. In December 2023 I published a memoir called Talking Back, Stories from the Big Hair and Pantyhose Years, and it’s available on Amazon. It includes a lot of stories about my first 15 years as a paralegal. I also wrote a guide for new paralegals, Paralegal 411: Tips, Tricks and Timesavers for the Litigation Paralegal. I’ve published numerous articles online and in print, and I’ve been writing a personal blog, The Crab Chronicles, since 2005.
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