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Bernie Simmons comes home to Longely after a bad breakup and helps her sister Libby cater a high school reunion. When the guest of honor drops dead after a sip of water, their family business gets its first murder case.

A society wedding promises money and prestige for Bernie and Libby's catering business, until bride Leeza Sharp is killed hours before the ceremony. The sisters trade canapes for questions as secrets spill from both families.

Libby and Bernie join a televised holiday cooking showdown where celebrity chefs, random ingredients, and bad tempers make a messy mix. When one contestant dies in an oven explosion, the season turns murderous.

Bernie and Libby are juggling Valentine's orders and a chocolate-themed fundraiser when a local death pulls them into a fresh mystery. Between romantic chaos and business headaches, they have to track a killer with plenty of possible targets.

The sisters cater a haunted house fundraiser at Longely's old Peabody School, where locals still whisper about a girl's death years earlier. When socialite Amethyst Applegate is murdered inside, past and present collide.

A spoiled pug's birthday party seems like easy money until wealthy Annabel Colbert drinks poisoned wine and dies. Bernie and Libby promised the victim answers, and the guest list is full of people who wanted her gone.

Bernie and Libby cater Thanksgiving for the feuding Field family, who are all anxious about patriarch Monty's will. When the turkey explodes in his face during a snowstorm, the sisters are trapped in the mansion with a killer.

A St. Patrick's Day celebration goes sour when Mike Sweeney is found dead in a vat of green beer. Asked to help a powerful client's nephew, Bernie and Libby uncover a club full of bad blood and buried secrets.

Bernie and Libby agree to judge a Christmas cookie contest for a TV show, only to see the favorite die in a suspicious crash before the competition. Rival bakers, missing recipes, and old grudges heat up the case.

During a sweltering Revolutionary War reenactment on the Fourth of July, notorious playboy Jack Devlin ends up truly dead on the field. With suspicion falling on Bernie's beau Marvin, the sisters hurry to clear him.

Their friend Ellen fakes her own kidnapping to jolt her ungrateful family, then ends up arrested with a dead man in her motel room. Bernie and Libby race to clear her name before the prank ruins her life.

At the opening-night fundraiser for Longely's new Blue House arts complex, billionaire Zeb Zalinsky collapses during an Alice in Wonderland tea party. Bernie and Libby must sort through art-world grudges, money, and murder.

Hired to cater Darius Witherspoon's Halloween party at the Berkshire Arms, Bernie and Libby walk into a gathering already shadowed by his missing wife. When Darius dies and a second body turns up, the sisters know it is no suicide.

Bernie and Libby cater Susie Katz's lavish wedding for her two Russian blue cats, complete with rival breeders and bickering heirs. When the chaos spills into murder, the sisters have a house full of suspects and claws out.

An estranged relative asks Bernie and Libby to cater a New Year's Eve party and witness a diary reading meant to expose an old killer. When a guest dies and the diary vanishes, family history turns deadly.

When punctual art restorer Margo Hemsley fails to pick up her usual pastries for mystery book club, Bernie and Libby know something is wrong. Finding her body uncovers missing paintings, hidden secrets, and a case the police dismiss too quickly.

Bernie and Libby expect a silly publicity stunt when they cater a wedding for two golden retrievers at a new doggie day care. Threats, vandalism, and a dead contractor turn the furry celebration into a murder case.

Catering a quilt exhibition sounds harmless until one quilter is found hanged in her sewing room. As Bernie and Libby look past the suicide ruling, they uncover a hidden past and a missing antique quilt fragment.

Bernie and Libby join a reality-show bake-off at a country estate, where sabotaged ingredients, broken equipment, and even wandering goats spell trouble. When a judge dies in an espresso-machine blast, the cameras keep rolling and so does the danger.

Back-to-school season turns nasty when PTA president Rita Sullivan hires Bernie and Libby, then ends up dead beside their cakes with a lipstick X across her body. The sisters have to sort through blackmail, feuds, and business secrets.