|  | Sherry Lewis [1954-]
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    |  | Fred Vickery, a retired building and grounds
      supervisor, in Cutler, Colorado: |  | 
  
    |  | No
          Place for Secrets (1995) No
          Place Like Home (1996) No
          Place for Death (1996) | No
          Place for Tears (1997) No
          Place for Sin (1997) No
          Place for Memories (1999) |  | 
  
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    |  | Written as Sammi Carter Abby Shaw, who leaves a career in corporate
      law and a cheating husband to return to her hometown of Paradise, Colorado,
      to take over her aunt’s candy shop, Divinity, in the Candy Shop mysteries:
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    |  | Candy
          Apple Dead (2005) Chocolate
            Dipped Death (2006) Peppermint
          Twisted (2007) | Goody
          Goody Gunshots (2008) Sucker
            Punch (2009) |  | 
  
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    |  | Written as Jacklyn BradyRita Lucero, a pastry chef in New Orleans,
        Louisiana, in the Piece of Cake mysteries:
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    |  | A Sheetcake Named Desire (2011) Cake
          on a Hot Tin Roof (2012) Arsenic
          and Old Cake (2012) | The Cakes of Wrath (2013) Rebel Without a Cake (2014) The Cakes of Monte Cristo (2016) |  |