Cheesecakes, Pavlovas and Trifles (

Features delicious desserts. This cookbook includes rich, creamy cheesecakes, melt-in-the-mouth meringue, and that old favourite, trifle.

A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves

The first book in Ledbetter's (West of Bliss, etc.) new historical mystery series, set in 1870s Denver, explodes into action when young detective/self-proclaimed "scientist" Josephine Beckworth Sawyer blows up her tool shed with homemade nitroglycerine. Blowing things up is only Joby's hobby; she pays the bills by manning her dead father's investigative firm. But since no one will hire a female detective, she pretends he's still alive. The intrepid private eye longs for something other than marital dispute cases, and she gets her wish when she's hired to track down a robber who may also be a murderer.