Maya (Mary Ann) Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mysteries, featuring a café manager and her live-wire grandfather, the Codger Cook, solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. Each book has five suspects, five clues, and Granddad’s five-ingredient recipes. Her latest book, Bake Offed, the eighth book in the series, takes place at a weekend mystery fest, where fans of murder mysteries must solve a real murder. Her seventh book, Gingerdead Man, is “a spirited holiday cozy” (Kirkus Review) set during a Dickens festival. Maya is the winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award and the New England Readers’ Award for unpublished Mystery and Suspense. She taught writing, American literature, and detective fiction at Georgetown University and Northern Virginia Community College. Visit Maya's website at www.MayaCorrigan.com for book news, easy recipes, and mystery history and trivia. 

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