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Cheryl Winstead writes cozy mysteries, suspense, devotionals, true crime-inspired works, puzzle books, and other creative projects filled with heart, humor, mystery, and characters who feel real enough to sit across from you with a cup of coffee and something worth saying. Her stories tend to find ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances — a small-town community forced to confront the truth it tried to bury, or an amateur sleuth who notices the things everyone else has decided not to look at.

She writes with strong atmosphere, emotional depth, unexpected twists, and the firm belief that justice is always worth finding, even when the path to it is winding.

When she is not writing, Cheryl enjoys spending time with her family and friends, developing new book ideas, building fictional worlds where mystery, humor, faith, resilience, and hope can all find a place, and trying to convince herself that the next book will be the one that comes easily.

It never does. She writes it anyway.

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Jan Airy has spent years as Maple Grove’s most infamous baker.

Her cookies are remembered for the wrong reasons, her cakes have inspired cautious silence, and even Boone has learned to keep a respectful distance from anything she carries on a plate. Jan has laughed along with the jokes, but she has never stopped trying.

After fifty-six failed attempts, batch fifty-seven finally changes everything.

Her brownies are not just good for Jan. They are genuinely wonderful. Sherry and Stan are stunned. Darla at Bake & Banter is impressed enough to offer Jan a short-term café trial if she can reproduce the recipe consistently. For the first time, Jan has a chance to be known not as Maple Grove’s worst baker, but as someone who made something truly special.

Then her recipe notebook disappears.

The missing notebook holds months of careful notes, failed batches, adjustments, measurements, and the breakthrough that could change how Maple Grove sees her. At first, Jan fears she misplaced it. But when pieces of her notes begin turning up in suspicious places and another baker’s brownies suddenly improve, Sherry, Riley, Stan, Darla, Grandma Martinez, Kiki, Wendy, Boone, and the rest of the Maple Grove circle begin to suspect the recipe may not be lost after all.

Someone may have taken it.

As Jan fights to recover her recipe and her confidence, Maple Grove faces one final mystery about pride, jealousy, second chances, and the courage it takes to keep trying after everyone expects you to fail.

Warm, funny, heartfelt, and full of small-town chaos, Jan and the Lost Brownie Recipe is the seventh and final book in the Maple Grove Cozy Mystery series.

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Mayor Clark is trying to do things the right way this time.

After the Senior Center bingo scandal, he knows Maple Grove is watching him closely. So when he launches his family’s heirloom marmalade as a fundraiser for the Senior Center repair fund, everything is documented, approved, labeled, and publicly tracked.

At first, the marmalade is a hit.

The jars are charming, the story is heartfelt, and the recipe is genuinely good. Even Kiki Winestein calls it acceptable, which in Maple Grove is practically a parade.

Then the complaints begin.

One jar tastes bitter. Another tastes salty. A third has a strange peppery bite. Some jars are perfectly fine, while others are completely wrong. Mayor Clark insists the recipe has not changed, but after his past mistake, not everyone is ready to believe him.

Sherry Winestein, Riley Martinez, Stan, Darla, Grandma Martinez, Kiki, Wendy, Boone, and the rest of the Maple Grove circle begin tracking jars, labels, batch numbers, customer complaints, and suspicious timing. The more they uncover, the clearer it becomes that the marmalade may not be failing on its own.

Someone is souring Mayor Clark’s second chance.

With the Heritage Festival approaching and the Senior Center fundraiser at risk, Sherry and the team must discover who is sabotaging the marmalade before one ruined recipe damages an entire community’s trust.

Full of humor, heart, family recipes, small-town rivalry, and Maple Grove chaos, The Mayor’s Marmalade Mystery is a cozy mystery about pride, tradition, second chances, and the danger of letting competition turn bitter.

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Bingo night in Maple Grove has always been competitive, but Grandma Martinez knows the difference between luck and something that smells suspicious.

When the same handful of players keep winning week after week at the Senior Center, Grandma Martinez starts keeping notes. Dates, winners, seating charts, card sellers, and every strange little detail no one else seems to notice. Most people think she is taking bingo a little too seriously.

Riley Martinez is not so sure.

After Grandma hands over a notebook full of patterns no one can easily explain, Riley turns to Sherry, Stan, Kiki, Wendy, Darla, and the rest of the Maple Grove crew for help. Soon, what began as a few suspicious wins leads to side stacks of cards, uncomfortable winners, strange supply boxes, and a trail that points somewhere no one expected.

As Riley digs deeper, the mystery becomes about more than bingo. The Senior Center needs repairs. The town needs answers. And someone may have decided that a little unfairness was worth it if the cause seemed good enough.

But Grandma Martinez did not come to bingo to be made a fool of.

With humor, heart, and plenty of Maple Grove chaos, Riley and the Rigged Bingo Cards is a cozy mystery about fairness, community trust, second chances, and the importance of listening to the person with the notebook.

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A missing masterpiece. 

A town full of suspects. 

One community unwilling to let heritage disappear.

When renowned basket artist Molly Kemp discovers her prize winning pine needle creation has vanished hours before judging, the peaceful Harvest Craft Fair turns into a tangle of secrets, rivalries, and surprisingly sticky fingers.

Armed with casseroles, curiosity, and Maple Grove’s unofficial mascot Boone, Molly’s neighbors, Sherry the spreadsheet detective, Riley the sarcastic rationalist, and the ever-organized Janet, launch another “heritage protection” investigation. 

What begins as small-town sabotage uncoils into a story about art, patience, and the ways old traditions bind good people together.

Molly’s Missing Pine Needle Masterpiece blends small town humor, handmade charm, and a heartfelt whodunit that proves even creative theft can lead to unexpected redemption.

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Sherry's mother-in-law Kiki Winestein has two sacred beliefs: rugelach is a gift from heaven, and anyone who steals rugelach is capable of any crime imaginable.

So when twelve perfect pastries vanish from the Senior Center bake sale, taking with them Kiki's grandmother's recipe, three months of careful preparation, and $13.45 in fundraising revenue, Kiki doesn't just get upset.

She gets motivated.

What starts as a hunt for missing pastries quickly expands when the "thief" turns out to be a well-meaning neighbor who thought the rugelach were samples. But Kiki's outrage transforms into inspiration: if communities don't protect family recipes, who will?

But when anonymous flyers appear warning people against "giving away family recipes," academic researchers want to study their methods, and Food Network offers a national platform, Kiki discovers that preserving heritage is more complicated than preserving pastry.

With Sherry providing investigative backup, Carmen navigating legal frameworks, and neighbors arguing passionately about pierogi techniques and sauce authenticity, the Heritage Kitchen Project becomes a test of whether Maple Grove can grow from small-town organizing to national cultural preservation, without losing what makes it special.

Warm, wise, and deliciously complex, Kiki and the Case of the Vanishing Rugelach explores how communities preserve culture, how traditions survive change, and what happens when someone steals from a grandmother who doesn't believe in proportional response.

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Retired teacher and reluctant sleuth Sherry Winestein thought she'd solved her last neighborhood mystery when she rescued her stolen sourdough starter.

Then Wendy Brittle discovered kombucha.

What starts as a harmless hobby quickly turns strange when Wendy's favorite jar, "Elderflower Enlightenment," which she swears hums, fizzes on command, and might be spiritually attuned, vanishes from her kitchen. In its place: a sticky mess, a towel on the ceiling, and a note that reads, "Some things should not be brewed."

Soon, fizzy disasters erupt all over Maple Grove: exploding punch at the senior center luncheon, suspicious stomach upsets at the Pilates studio, and anonymous jars turning up on porches. The HOA mutters about "unauthorized fermentation," Wendy insists her missing jar is haunted, and Kiki is convinced there's a black-market kombucha ring using the community pool.

With Stan tracking symptoms on a spreadsheet, Riley digging into wellness-influencer drama, and Wendy naming suspects as fast as she names SCOBYs, Sherry is pulled back into detective mode. Someone is sabotaging more than just tea—and they're very good at making Wendy look guilty.

In a neighborhood where the sourdough might judge you and the kombucha is never just a drink, Sherry must solve her second Maple Grove mystery before the town's latest health craze turns truly sour.

Warm, witty, and deliciously cozy, Wendy's Haunted Kombucha Jar is a mystery about community, second chances, and what happens when you share your starter—and your secrets—with the people next door.

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Something is rising in Maple Grove… and it isn't just the dough.

Sherry had the perfect plan for the annual Maple Grove Harvest Festival: debut her prize-winning sourdough bread, sourdough starter and secure the blue ribbon. But when her kitchen is ransacked and the bubbly "bread-mother" goes missing, Sherry realizes she’s dealing with more than just a case of stolen yeast.

In the tight-knit town of Maple Grove, everyone has a secret—and some are more half-baked than others. When a local rival is found in a "sticky" situation, her friends are quick to point fingers. Sherry must follow a trail of floury clues and crumb-sized secrets to find her starter before the festival begins again.

Can Sherry uncover the truth, or is her future about to be toasted?

Sherry’s Missing Sourdough Starter

is the charming first book in The Maple Grove Cozy Mystery series. If you love quirky small towns, nosy neighbors, and amateur sleuths with a heart of gold, you’ll love Cheryl’s debut novel.

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Welcome to Maple Grove, where neighbors know everyone’s business, homemade food is taken very seriously, and even the disappearance of a sourdough starter can launch a town-wide investigation.

Retired teacher and passionate baker Sherry Winestein never intended to become an amateur sleuth. But when the treasured recipes, handcrafted creations, and beloved traditions of Maple Grove begin disappearing under suspicious circumstances, Sherry cannot resist searching for answers.

Fortunately—or perhaps unfortunately—she never investigates alone. Her devoted husband, Stan, brings spreadsheets, timelines, and reluctant logic. Conspiracy enthusiast Wendy supplies increasingly outrageous theories. Dramatic matriarch Kiki treats every culinary crime as a matter for the FBI. Resourceful young Riley offers sharp observations and modern investigative skills, while Boone, a flour-covered, food-motivated chihuahua, has an uncanny habit of discovering clues whenever snacks are nearby.

From a missing sourdough starter and a supposedly haunted kombucha jar to vanishing rugelach, a stolen basket masterpiece, rigged bingo games, disputed marmalade, and one unforgettable brownie catastrophe, each mystery reveals that the missing object is only part of the story.

Filled with affectionate humor, comforting food, eccentric neighbors, second chances, and mysteries resolved with compassion, the Maple Grove Cozy Mystery Series celebrates creativity, friendship, reinvention, and the joy of finding a place where you truly belong.

In Maple Grove, the crimes may be small—but the feelings, friendships, and community consequences are anything but.

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