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It’s time to hop into some Easter fiction, friends!
Everyone knows that the best thing to round out an Easter basket, is a cosy murder mystery or a chilling read about a bunny that just won’t quit.
In this post we suggest 11 Easter-adjacent books that can only help to make your break that much sweeter.
So grab your crossest hot bun, a steaming mug of chocolate – and set your rabbit traps to ‘relax’.
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Happy Reading, Friends!
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This is Book One in the ‘Silver Six Mysteries‘ series.
'Basket Case' Back Blurb:
When Leslee Stanton “Nixy” Nix gets the latest call from Lilyvale detective Eric Shoar, she knows it means trouble. There’s been another kitchen explosion at her Aunt Sherry’s farmhouse, and the dreamy-voiced detective has had enough. If Nixy doesn’t check on her aunt in person, the Silver Six could become wards of the court. But the trouble Nixy finds in Lilyvale is not at all what she expects. The seniors are hosting a folk art festival at the farmhouse, featuring Sherry’s hand-woven baskets, when land developer Jill Elsman arrives to bully Nixy’s aunt into selling the property. When Jill is later found dead in the cemetery, Sherry is suspected of weaving a murder plot, and it’s up to Nixy and the Silver Six to untangle the truth.
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This is Book 3 in the ‘Chef Maurice Cotswold Mysteries‘ series.
'Chef Maurice and the Bunny Boiler Bake Off' Back Blurb:
Spring has sprung, the bunting is up, and for the residents of the little Cotswold village of Beakley, this can only mean one thing: it’s time for the Beakley Spring Fayre. Drawing the crowds this year is stiletto-strutting celebrity chef Miranda Matthews, a woman for whom making enemies is a piece of (shop-bought) cake. And one of them is lurking around the Fayre, ready to make sure Miranda hangs up her apron—for good. Faced with a murderer with a possible penchant for top(ping) chefs, Chef Maurice must sift through the clues and weigh up the suspects—not to mention contending with a sous-chef with mummy issues, a food critic on a diet, and a bulletproof pudding—as he finds himself on the trail of a killer who’s not cooking by the rules.
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This is Book One in the ‘Bunny Foo Foo‘ series.
'Bunny Foo Foo' Back Blurb:
When six-year-old Sandy Sommers vanishes during an Easter egg hunt in the small mountain town of Berlin, New Hampshire, Mayor Otto Finch finds himself at the centre of a nightmare he thought he’d left behind decades ago. As a college freshman in 1998, Otto witnessed inexplicable horrors in the town of Robin, where Halloween night turned an entire community violent. Now, as Berlin’s first Black mayor, he’s built a peaceful life with his adopted daughter Lily—until Sandy’s disappearance stirs memories of a past Otto has spent years trying to forget. When two local teenagers are found in the woods covered in blood with no memory of what happened, and Lily reveals she’s been talking to something calling itself her “Best Forest Friend,” Otto realizes the evil he encountered in his youth has found a new home. Working with FBI Agent Clementine Miller, Otto races to find Sandy before it’s too late, only to discover a horrifying truth: the creature in the forest is the monstrous manifestation of a nursery rhyme that children have sung for generations. To save the children of Berlin, Otto must confront the darkness of his past and face the terrifying entity known as Bunny Foo Foo—before it collects every child in town.
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This is a standalone novel.
'Bunny' Back Blurb:
Silas didn’t have a happy childhood. Aunt Bunny made sure of that. But out of money and almost out of time, Silas and his girlfriend Rose are forced to return to his childhood home. Back to the darkness, back to the woods, where addiction and hedonism are disguising something much more sinister. Plagued by strange, unnerving events, Silas is drawn back into the family by an ancient presence deep in the woods. It will not let him go, and neither will Bunny.
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This is an Easter Anthology.
'Easter Basket Murder' Back Blurb:
Put on your springtime best and grab a basket, because Easter egg hunting is to dye for in this delightful new collection of Easter-themed capers set in coastal Maine and featuring fan-favourite sleuths from the long-running, bestselling cozy mystery series by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Barbara Ross! This book contains ‘Easter Basket Murder’ by Leslie Meier; ‘Death by Easter Egg’ by LeeHollis and ‘Hopped Along’ by Barbara Ross.
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This is Book 3 in the ‘White House Chef‘ series
'Eggsecutive Orders' Back Blurb:
When NSA big shot Carl Minkus dies right after eating the dinner Olivia Paras’s staff had prepared, all forks point to them. Now the Secret Service is picking apart the kitchen-and scrutinising the staff’s every move. The timing couldn’t be worse with the White House Lawn Easter Egg Roll to prep for without access to a kitchen. Olivia must find the real culprit-before she cracks under pressure.
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‘Eggsecutive Orders’ by Julie Hyzy
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This is Book 28 in the Zoe Donovan series.
'Hippity Hoppity Homicide' Back Blurb:
It comes down to a few critical seconds as Zoe is forced to either outsmart a genius or watch her husband die. With Easter only a week away, Zoe is pulled into a dangerous game after Zak is kidnapped, and the person who kidnapped him, challenges Zoe to The Sleuthing Game. Zoe is told that the only way to gain Zak’s freedom is to complete the challenges in the time allotted. If she fails, Zak will die. Zoe had promised she would retire from sleuthing now that she had an infant to care for, but the stakes are high, so she leaves the kids with Ellie, while she and Levi set out to beat a madman at their own game.
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This is a standalone novel.
'Red Rabbit' Back Blurb:
Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit. On the road to Burden County, they’re joined by two vagabond cowboys with a strong sense of adventure – but no sense of purpose – and a recently widowed schoolteacher with nothing left to lose. As their posse grows, so too does the danger. Racing along the drought-stricken plains in a stolen red stagecoach, they encounter monsters more wicked than witches lurking along the dusty trail. But the crew is determined to get that bounty, or die trying.
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This is Book 16 in the ‘Chocoholic Mystery‘ series.
'The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha' Back Blurb:
The approach of Easter means a rush of business at TenHuis Chocolade, and Lee and her Aunt Nettie need all the help they can get to make their famous chocolate bunnies. Unfortunately, new hire Bunny Birdsong is a clutzy basketcase dropping everything she picks up. But to Lee’s surprise, she’s a whiz with computers and fixing the store’s website so they decide to keep her. However, Bunny receives a few visitors they could do without- her soon to be ex-husband Beau, his wealthy aunt Abigail, and his new girlfriend and her brother all descend on the shop one day and have a bitter argument. Lee hopes they can find a peaceful way to settle their dispute and not bring any more trouble to TenHuis. But when Abigail’s body is discovered in the vacant store next door, it’s clear to Lee there’s a bad egg in her midst. Now she’s on the hunt to find out who it is.
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This relates to the ‘Victorian Mystery‘ series.
'The Hunt' Back Blurb:
Christmas, 1888. After a thoroughly trying time in Edinburgh, Inspector Ian Frey looks forward to a Christmas break at his family’s country estate back in England. But the welcome respite of home cooking, hunting trips and brandy by the fire is ruined by the arrival of an unwelcome guest.
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This is Book One in the ‘Rabbit Factor‘ series.
'The Rabbit Factor' Back Blurb:
What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. And then, for the first time, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother – its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The worst of the financial issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters … and some dangerous men are very keen to get their money back. But what Henri really can’t compute is love. In the adventure park, Henri crosses paths with Laura, an artist with a chequered past, and a joie de vivre and erratic lifestyle that bewilders him. As the criminals go to extreme lengths to collect their debts and as Henri’s relationship with Laura deepens, he finds himself faced with situations and emotions that simply cannot be pinned down on his spreadsheets.
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