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Cornbread and Consequences: A Southern Cozy Culinary Mystery
Cornbread and Consequences
A Covington Mystery
Some recipes should stay in the family. Others might just get you killed.
When a mysterious photo and a torn page from an old recipe notebook arrive at the Butter & Biscuit Café, Lila Mae Covington is forced to confront a secret from her past—and a man she never thought she'd see again. Her former baking partner, Silas Reed, rolls back into Peach Cove just in time for the Southern Classic Cornbread Cook-Off. The reunion is anything but sweet.
But when a celebrity food judge chokes during the first round and a long-lost skillet with family ties becomes the centerpiece of a scandal, Lila Mae and her daughter Callie must once again trade rolling pins for clues. With rival bakers, stolen recipes, and a food writer digging up more than flavor, the Covington women face a rising tide of suspicion and old wounds.
In a town where tradition is everything and secrets bake slowly, Lila Mae and Callie will have to follow the crumbs of the past to uncover the truth—before someone else turns up burned.
Full of heart, heritage, and Southern sass, Cornbread and Consequences serves up a warm, witty mystery with just the right amount of spice.
A Covington Mystery
Some recipes should stay in the family. Others might just get you killed.
When a mysterious photo and a torn page from an old recipe notebook arrive at the Butter & Biscuit Café, Lila Mae Covington is forced to confront a secret from her past—and a man she never thought she'd see again. Her former baking partner, Silas Reed, rolls back into Peach Cove just in time for the Southern Classic Cornbread Cook-Off. The reunion is anything but sweet.
But when a celebrity food judge chokes during the first round and a long-lost skillet with family ties becomes the centerpiece of a scandal, Lila Mae and her daughter Callie must once again trade rolling pins for clues. With rival bakers, stolen recipes, and a food writer digging up more than flavor, the Covington women face a rising tide of suspicion and old wounds.
In a town where tradition is everything and secrets bake slowly, Lila Mae and Callie will have to follow the crumbs of the past to uncover the truth—before someone else turns up burned.
Full of heart, heritage, and Southern sass, Cornbread and Consequences serves up a warm, witty mystery with just the right amount of spice.
57 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 22, 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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